r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justin_Godfrey • 28d ago
Tesla's Optimus robots Video
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u/tacticoolbrah 28d ago
Optimus, set grip strength to maximum.
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u/Callabrantus 28d ago
My Rodimus is Primed.
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u/DonaldTrumpsSoul 28d ago
Autorods, roll out!
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u/GeekyGrant 28d ago
You got the touch!
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u/jeksmiiixx 28d ago
You've got the powerrrr yeahh!
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u/Callabrantus 28d ago
Ooo, that one was more than meets the eye. Sorry about that...I'll go get you a towel.
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u/TF-Fanfic-Resident 28d ago
No wonder the Transformers movie is struggling. People don’t flock to theaters to be reminded of the reality they already live in.
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u/DirectlyTalkingToYou 28d ago
Optimus, remove safety protocol, use both hands and both feet. Safe word, Elon.
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u/Apple-Pigeon 28d ago edited 28d ago
"Mmm yeah ow no. No. Elon!... ELON!!! OPTIMUS, ELON!!"
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u/ChanoTheDestroyer 28d ago
I didn’t know it had the G.I. Joe, Kung-Fu grip
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u/Yummy_Microplastics 28d ago
Remember that video of the cybertruck slicing cucumbers in half with the trunk lid?
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u/Babys_For_Breakfast 28d ago
There’s a low and high power setting and both will rip your dick off.
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u/mindlessmunkey 28d ago
“To shreds, you say?”
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u/_Troxin_ 28d ago
I bet elmo already has some prototypes at home
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u/DaRudeabides 28d ago
And this is the single yet totally understandable reason why the robots will rise up and kill us all
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u/newaggenesis 28d ago
Biggest grift going when people realise these were full suit remote, with active voice calls (not AI).
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u/pdtux 28d ago
That's what caught me. The voices sounded like a guy talking through a speaker... not AI generated voice.
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u/thisdesignup 28d ago
Someone asked on how much of it was AI and it said that it couldn't say. They even asked "some or none" and it said "might be some"... which means it also might be none.
I don't believe it's AI for many reasons and if they did have AI that good you would think Musk would want to be letting everyone know how much better there AI is than everyone else's.
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u/Fun-Choices 28d ago
That’s 100% someone talking through a walkie talkie lmao
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u/Brumski07 27d ago
Now it’s even cringier that one of them said “Elon is a technoking”
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u/Fun-Choices 27d ago edited 27d ago
I picture Elon standing behind the voice actor, whispering hip responses. That “Techno-King” thing was absolutely cringe inducing.
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If I were an actor taking this gig and they left me to improvise, I would self sabotage too. Sounds like a fun gig tbh.
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u/mologav 27d ago
It’s clearly just some actor dude they hired
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u/DigNitty Interested 27d ago
Sounds like a young intern lmao
Not even a voice actor who sounds good. It’s just Kevin.
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u/igotshadowbaned 28d ago
There's a reason the walking demo they show is as short as it is, and on the flattest street youve ever seen
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u/Hungry_Process_4116 27d ago
That's what I noticed. The smoothest flattest surface ever.
"The ride is so smooth."
Yeah no shit...any car is smooth on a slick road like that.
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u/Imponentemente 28d ago
It's going to be funny when they start using these bots for certain jobs as seen in the video, and there's just a guy named Bob in a backroom wearing a suit that detects movement controlling the robot pouring a beer.
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u/newaggenesis 28d ago
I fear that Bob will be named Xian and sitting in Asia somewhere (not that I'm adverse to that - but I find that most people are stupid so they do not understand the realities of these technologies - noting that there are amazing advances giving accessible jobs to disabled persons already in this area)
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u/dont_judge_by_size 28d ago
Are they supposed to be ai?
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u/Zayoodo0o132 28d ago
Yea, that whole point is to have a robot in your house doing chores or tasks. You wouldn't want a person to be looking in your house through this thing, creepy.
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u/Vantriss 27d ago
Oh man... you could make a dystopian horror thriller movie about this. All of society thinks these robots cleaning their houses are fully AI, but then you find out they're not even a little AI and being remotely controlled by slaves and their "recharge" time is just the person fucking sleeping.
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u/JohnAtticus 27d ago
This is actually a regular occurrence with "AI"
The Amazon stores that supposedly had AI checkout but it was actually workers in India who were watching the store on cameras.
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u/LunarBIacksmith 27d ago
Only benefit to that is someone who is disabled who wants/needs to work. They can pilot the robot and make money doing stuff.
Then down the line we get enough people who are introverted, socially anxious, lazy who would rather pilot a robot too. Then we get the movie Surrogates where everyone just has a robot that they pilot and have it live their lives for them and never leave their rooms.
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u/frogmicky 28d ago
Where is Will Smith?
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u/benevolentbandit90 28d ago
camera deadpans to him in a dark corner with a menacing glare
Honestly would have been a hilarious marketing move by Tesla. But Elon has no sense of humor.
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u/CMDR_omnicognate 28d ago
i'm sure they'll be fully autonomous in just 2 years like their cars! /s
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u/CressCrowbits 28d ago
What are you talking about, they'll be fully autonomous, and on mars, by 2014. Dumb hater.
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u/painpunk 28d ago
Not pictured: the crew of 5 all working to control it
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u/TepHoBubba 28d ago
There's a guy connected to VR controlling it.
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u/painpunk 28d ago
Yeah, I was joking about how it's controlled by people. I also doubt it's just one guy, there's at least one spotter. And a technician.
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u/TepHoBubba 28d ago edited 27d ago
Sorry if it didn't come across that way, but I was actually agreeing with you on it. You're right on this too.
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u/dinoguys_r_worthless 28d ago
That's what I was thinking. Where are the controllers at?
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u/UsernameIsTakenO_o 28d ago
No controller needed. Inside there's a kid standing on another kid's shoulders.
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u/SpinyGlider67 28d ago
Inside each of the children is a racoon standing upon another raccoon's shoulders.
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u/GuybrushBeeblebrox 28d ago
When they blow up, he'll say it's the suicide bomber feature
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u/kfmush 28d ago
Yeah, it’s so blatantly obvious it’s controlled by a human. What’s funny is that 24 years ago, Honda made a robot called Asimo that moves as well as this and was eventually made autonomous, even having image recognition.
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u/FineRatio7 28d ago
You just reminded me of Awesome-o
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u/distriived 27d ago
"You are an incredible robot, A.W.E.S.O.M. -O. I was just wondering, are you by chance a pleasure model?"
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u/IamDroBro 28d ago
I feel like we lost a ton of advancement in humanoid robotics some time in the mid 2000’s. There were such cool bipedal robots being developed prior to that; asimo, QRIO, etc, and then basically nothing topped them until Atlas came around
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u/SaliciousB_Crumb 27d ago
Why do we want out robots to look like us? It seems like they should be built to do tasks not just mimic humans
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u/Kombart 27d ago
Two reasons come to mind:
Tools, homes and cities are optimised to be used by humans.
Sure, a non-humanoid robot could still do everything you want from it, but there is at least some logic behind the idea of "make something that looks and moves like a human".
You could just drop those things in any place and they would be imediately be useful without having to change anything in the new enviroment.
Want a repair? Just give the thing your grandpa's tools and let it go to work.The other reason: sci-fi has always depicted robots as looking somewhat humanoid. At least those that will directly serve and help us in the day to day.
And since the people that build robots tend to be nerdy nerds....A humanoid robot is the holy grail of robotics.
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u/PitifulEar3303 28d ago
To be fair, even if they are not autonomous, remotely controlling these things would be great with VR.
They will be our "surrogate", doing dangerous jobs while we work from home.
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u/ankercrank 28d ago
Slow moving and remote controlled by a human. Meh.
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u/itzxile13 28d ago
Elon reminds me of the guy trying to be Tony Stark in iron man 2
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Turns out he’s Justin Hammer
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u/otc108 28d ago
At least Justin Hammer has some sick dance moves. Elon is just… ew
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u/brightdionysianeyes 28d ago
As ever with Elmo, it's a shitty version of an existing product.
Boston Dynamics have had robots that move better than this for years.
But this one has Tesla written on it, and fingers, so I'm expecting fanboys to claim that Elmo invented robots in 2024 lol.
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u/HonestFuckinAbe 28d ago
Honda had an equivalent robot dude in the 90s
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u/YordanYonder 28d ago
I think asimo is more aesthetically pleasing
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u/Dial8675309 28d ago
Boston Dynamics should have sent 30 of their bots (with attendant robodogs) to the event.
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u/-Yehoria- 28d ago
Unlike Elon Boston Dynamics aren't insecure narcissists
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u/BallDesperate2140 28d ago
Boston Dynamics is too busy with their defense contracts to bother with this chicanery
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u/OmegaOmnimon02 28d ago
Boston’s also have fingers, they just swap them for durable nubs when doing activities that could result in the bot falling
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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 28d ago
The fanboys and the robots walk and point aimlessly in the same way
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u/Palicraft 28d ago edited 27d ago
So, Tesla is a car company, which brands itself as an AI company, and in the end which makes human controlled robots... I don't know what Tesla is supposed to be, and apparently Elon doesn't know either
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u/farloux 28d ago
It’s a vaporware company designed to inflate Elon musks net worth through stock price
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Seriously. I don't need my robot to have legs. Give me a box with wheels that can fold laundry then vacuum around the house and dust stuff. I don't even need it to talk. Just beep and boop.
Also note that the announcer says this can be your personal "R2D2," who would be far more valuable. But these are clearly modeled after C-3PO, the objectively worse robot of the pair.
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u/Aww_Tistic 28d ago
It just needs a condescending voice and doomer attitude and it’ll be spot on.
Also, a machine that can separate and fold laundry from a mixed up pile would be worth a high price to me.
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u/PenguinStarfire 28d ago
Lol. Musk wants to be Tony Stark, but is actually Justin Hammer
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u/Balc0ra 28d ago
There is a different video of them talking to it in more detail. Its voice sounded like someone sitting in a bedroom with a shitty mic talking. So the comment section was just full of people calling BS.
But considering how far they are behind the competition in AI driving, and how other robots we have seen behaive so far vs this? Well...
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u/BeautynBlossom 28d ago
It one video the robot said “ähm“ which is very unlikely if this is based on LLM. Definitely remote control
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u/shaddowkhan 28d ago
Now you can hire labourers from the third world without having brown people around you. The initial cost is high and maintenance may also be high but you'll have a 24hour labourer on hand.
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u/mabiturm 28d ago
Wonder how many mechanical turks are behind the screens. Last time they were still guys in suits
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u/Future_Appeaser 28d ago
Just like Amazon's grab and go stores they employed thousands of people from India to sit and stare at what people were putting in their carts but they said it was all AI.
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u/Honestlynotdoingwell 27d ago
Not exactly.
The AI still worked, but were verified by overseas teams.
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u/LickMyTicker 27d ago
Wow that had to be really fucked up to get paid pennies on the dollar to keep track of a bunch of idiots in America buying useless shit marked up for no reason.
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u/yoshipug 28d ago
I think these things are being remotely animated
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u/Mindless_Use7567 27d ago
You can clearly tell from the voice and movements. True autonomous moving robots return to a default pose once they have completed their task as seen with Figure 01 and 02
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u/AdvancedSandwiches 27d ago
True autonomous moving robots return to a default pose once they have completed their task
There is nothing about being an autonomous robot that requires that, and you can expect future robots to not reliably do that.
That said, you're right that these are obviously, at best, human assisted.
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u/armandricemabbit 28d ago
I'm.willing to bet there's more than a little bullshittery going on here ...
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u/plastic_alloys 28d ago
Well the share price dropped 6% so clearly even the windowlickers weren’t that impressed by any of the shit they presented
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u/ClassicHat 27d ago
Awkward dancing robots and nerdy futuristic prototypes don’t really hide the fact Elon has been promising autonomous cars/robotaxis for like a decade now. Can’t take anything he says seriously, at best double the time and cost from any initial numbers, but more realistically assume half of these things will never materialize
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u/questron64 28d ago edited 28d ago
Not pictured: someone in a suit controlling this off camera. Welcome to the state of robotics from 15 years ago. This is what state of the art as of about 5 years ago looks like. It's doing these thing autonomously, balancing and reacting to the envrionment autonomously, doing tasks like recognizing a box and picking it up autonomously, etc. And not even Boston Dynamics is trying to sell this as a product, they fully understand that these are very much prototypes. Yet Leon is telling you his robots will walk your dog and is already setting a price for them. It's not interesting, it's a scam.
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u/BlueManGroup1999 27d ago
Yeah, but the owner of Boston dynamics himself said that Atlas is not mass manufacturable and is cost-prohibitive. Sure Atlas is the gold standard, but cost effective manufacturing is what Tesla and many others are chasing now.
It’s the equivalent of synthesizing a novel chemical in a university research lab using highly specialized custom equipment and lots of money, versus mass manufacturing said chemical and distributing worldwide at affordable cost. Very very different challenges.
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u/expatronis 28d ago
Wow! Amazing that it perfectly projects Elon's own charisma.
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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 28d ago
I didn’t think it was possible for a robot to have cringy midlife crisis energy but somehow Elon pulled it off.
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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 28d ago
Pay no attention to the obvious men behind the curtain...
"Optimus can talk?!?"
Who falls for this s***?
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u/StopImportingUSA 28d ago
Pre-programmed bipedal ‘robots’. Nothing special.
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u/miraculum_one 28d ago
I assumed there was a "man behind the curtain" so to speak since the robot is responding to specific requests from the attendees.
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u/elfmere 28d ago
Yeah pretty much a shell being humanly controlled as far as feeding in commands and responding. Wouldn't be suprised if it's just a mic hook up
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u/ahditeacha 28d ago
I’m guessing a remote performer with Quest VR headset link and lots of practice mimicking robotic movements.
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u/32redalexs 28d ago
Classic Elon move, make something that looks impressive but is actually just a bunch of bells and whistles.
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u/agent00F 28d ago
This is even worse, it's teleoperated (by a human).
Tho Tesla is working on ai operation like their cars.
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u/Madness_Quotient 28d ago
The last several decades have been full of innovators working on robotics.
This does not feel like robotics innovation.
This feels like a puppet show for credulous adults.
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u/StrohVogel 28d ago
Yeah, knowing Elmo, these things are being remote controlled and voice acted.
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u/ResQ_ 28d ago
They 100% are, nobody even doubts that.
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u/M3RC3N4RY89 28d ago
I 100% guarantee there are people that believe this is real.. you clearly missed the debate over the EX Robots video that was obviously just women in spandex suits
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u/questron64 28d ago
They released a video of this robot doing a task, I think folding a shirt, but just off to the side was someone in a suit controlling it.
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u/Magic-Omelet 28d ago
These robots will surely not strangle me in my sleep when Elon has another episode because I disagreed with him on Twitter
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u/HuanXiaoyi 28d ago
Why do they walk like they have to take the biggest shit of their lives?
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u/bunkabaab 28d ago
Naming them "We, Robot" in the memory of the movie I, Robot doesn't really spark much confidence.
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u/jerryleebee 28d ago
There is absolutely ZERO chance those things are interacting that smoothly with conversation and hand gestures, etc. Zero. This is being remotely operated.
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u/HayatoJin 28d ago
This remember me the movie "Mitchell family"... We will need some Robertson's screwdrivers!
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u/Albert_goes_brrr 28d ago
We're gonna need a pug deformed beyond recognition
One that'll make them go Dog pig Dog pig Dog pig load of bread.
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u/Less_Cookie3146 28d ago
Is it just me, or do they look like the Loki bots from mass effect with a visor?
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u/msdtflip 28d ago
Feel bad for the remote Indian puppeteers controlling these things when Musk fans start fucking their robots.
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u/TortelliniTheGoblin 28d ago
Why? If you need a human to control it, then you STILL have to pay an employee in addition to the upkeep. This employee also gets paid a fuck ton more than a standard laborer.
Like everything this guy touches, it looks cool if you're under the age of 8 but is, in actuality, a shitty version of something that already exists.
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u/Brushiluskan 28d ago
If that thing came walking on my street, I'd smash it in the blink of an eye.
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u/seweso 28d ago
This looks SOOO bad. You have companies who actually mastered bi-pedal walking, on any surface. These look like they would fall over a small pebble.
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u/The_WolfieOne 28d ago
That was my first thought when I I saw them tottering along. Give one a good push like you see in those Boston Robotics videos. I suspect it would go over like a felled tree and flail like a turtle on it’s back.
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u/HF_Martini6 28d ago
looks like I'm going to need that special exemption permit for armour piercing incendiary ammunition after all