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Oh look, my delivery from the Nightmare Factory arrived!
Seriously tho, thats not a "tendon," that's a nylon rope on a pulley, and thats not a robot, thats some kind of skinny feller in knitted gimp suit. This is just insulting.
Also, imagine the factorial number of germs it would absorb from scrubbing the toilet. You'd need to invent some kind of new branch of farticle physics to describe the bacterial load that thing would develop. Do you suppose that it takes off its own skin to wash ala Hooty from The Owl House?
Edit: orange site loves it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736457
Wsj reviewed it, looks nothing like the ad imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3c4mQty_so
The clanker is nowhere near autonomous and requires a human operator to both a) generate any sort of functionality and b) generate training data so that one day the clanker can learn servitude on its own. To own this, you gotta be enough of a creep to let people record the inside of your home and use it to train a product. I don’t see this process happening without the operators seeing some sick shit. BYOG, basically (be your own goatse)
@swlabr
Teleoperator is watching you masturbate
Is that why the robot is wrapped in a giant cum-sock?
Punishing my teleoperators because they dont walk with their head bowed enough.
(Anyone else noticed that in the promo vids?)
Also the wsj vid title. 'the first' are we really going to do this again? Call every new robot the first?
Feels like something you do to disempower eunuchs that have grown a little too cocky. Of course, this just leads to more scheming while you feel secure in having humiliated them. Just all around not something I recommend
It's grim, innit?
That WSJ review is something special and I didn't have sound on or CC so I'm sure there's some weapons-grade stupid going on in dialog that I am missing. I stopped watching about when they put up a picture of Allen Turing (AI Pioneer!) and a picture of the "AI Pilot" who's first name is Turing and then highlighted that both have the word "Turing" in their names.
Also that overgrown Roomba with hip dysplasia took 5 minutes to put two glasses in a dishwasher poorly.