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[–] 45 points 3 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah it needs a fleshlight mount on the backside and I'll take it to a cliff where it has no choice but to push back.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    jfc, could they make it any more fucking ominous?

    Plus, the whole "you can easily disable it by puncturing the lung-analog air tank in its torso with a weapon or projectile" and "the horns are to slow it down moving through doorways" bits. What exactly are you trying to design against again because that sounds like a creature, or at the very least something autonomous, not a remote operated robot.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    Surely this is satire, right?

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago

    Possible, but I feel like a lot of effort went in for it to only be satire. No obvious AI images, multiple views of the thing including close up of the "hand" and they're all consistent. Could be made as an art sculpture and this is the satirical product page, maybe.

    Looks like all the current news coverage of it is reacting as if it's real/credible as well.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It even has a fucking CHAINSAW attachment ffs! 🤦🏻

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  • [–] 66 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    what the fuck this is on the offical website it can't get any more threatening than this

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  • [–] 50 points 3 months ago (3 children)


    Don't worry, they made sure it's killable!

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    This definitely started with some engineer saying “how are we going to get around the critical design flaw of these bigass pressurized air containers in the robot being potentially explosive and relatively easy to puncture?”

    Marketing it as “give the plebs you sic this thing on a fighting chance, it’ll be funny” is actually a stroke of genius lmao

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    VIbes of the 7 foot tall 7/11 stocking robot.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Threehalves? So... Manbearpig?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Yay I can hardly wait for hordes of these things owned by governments and corporations to be armed and active around the globe!

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Why does it need four legs??? Why centaur??? Can we not???

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    You didn't ask, but the horns are so it can't fit through the door (and kill you)

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    That's not a centaur, thats an abomination.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Oh good, you can put chainsaws in the wrist holes

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    It shoots a slippery white gel from its undercarriage to cause crimilals to slip up and get confused and trapped and hnnnngh

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    alright, i actually kinda fuck with nightmare robots thats cool

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Okay, so... Aside from the creepy terrifying robot thing, what's happening in this picture? Is that a door with a full plate glass window... in a wall between two hallways? Is the bot just standing in a large empty room staring through a door without opening it?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago*

    It's to show that it can't fit through a standard door quickly.

    https://www.satyress.com/#safety

    Threehalves will be substantially slowed if attempting to navigate a standard American 32"x80" door, and cannot turn around in a 42" wide hallway or enter a door orthogonal to the hallway. Larger horns can be fit to prevent any passage through pedestrian doors.

    It's hard to tell if the whole thing is a joke or not. How should much focus should be put on the name satyress

    They say that they've made it look scary so that people will not underestimate how dangerous a robot with extreme strength could be to humans around it. Which actually sort of makes sense. It's designed to look like a warning basically to reduce the chance of it accidentally injuring someone while working.

    https://thedebrief.org/its-obviously-quite-over-the-top-we-talked-to-the-company-behind-this-eerie-four-legged-centaur-robot-thats-going-viral/

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    The window to defeat the unholy alliance of fascists, technofeudalists and plutocrats in the USA is rapidly closing. After they can field such robots in mass, it's going to be over. Forever.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    OK WORLD let's just get out in front of this, Dungeon Crawler Carl is a series of fantasy books, NOT a treatise on how to run society in the future...

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Reminds me of back in the day when I worked in various data centers that had Man-traps for controlling access. I could see them being upgraded to release one of these on you if you failed to properly authenticate when inside one.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Finally we're getting to the real sexbots

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Someone should quickly hand Miss Peregrine her crossbow.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    If they will come in sex robot flavor, where will they put the robocoochie?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Like, once you get over the terror of the very real concern that this could be used against you to injure you, it's actually pretty cool.

    I mean, imagine if you owned it, you could ride it to work, and it could use its arms to carry weapons to attack other bad centaur riders on your way into the office.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Like something out of The Alchemy Wars...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Anger? You mean winning a lottery when we're all living in the underhive for a chance to elevate to the factorium level.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I for one welcome our robotic centaur overlords.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Sweep those spindly legs, and laugh as it tries to rise.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Whether I find this design scary or appealing depends entirely on who wrote the software the robot is running.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Now i didn't read the whole book, but I think this is what Cory Doctorow was trying to warn us about.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    you also need a minotaur in the maze too.

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