Also isn't white just the natural plastic coloring before any dye?
Yeah, most plastics are either transparent or milky white-ish without colourings or additives.
Good ol' CNN post-purchase. Chasing racism and sensationalism over actual news...
White is an excellent color for a complicated robot. Marks aren't hidden. It's not taking light away when looking in at hardware, it doesn't shade surroundings as much, and it matches every other damn piece of scientific equipment they throw in to labs, too.
Color neutral and bright has utility purpose. CNN is too stupid and dishonest to know that.
Also, it’s not an actual skin color.
I dunno' man, some Irish and Swedish folks are suuuuper damn pasty-white. Give 'em a little scare and some turn paper white. xD
As someone whose entire heritage is Irish and Swedish, I'm jealous of that robot's tan.
Of course not. Real people don't actually glow in black light....
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To be fair it wasn't CNN doing this groundbreaking "research".
Plus if it's outside, there are fewer heat issues.
Turns out lighter colors are perceived as cleaner and friendlier.
Or maybe hospitals are racist too? Or we need more hospitals with black walls and floors.
We could call them gothpitals.
Love it, I'm in
Enter into the void of the black MRI machine
They should paint them red and tile them like all leisure centers used to be in the '80s.
Imma be honest, that hospital sounds metal as fuck. I'm down.
Big Custodian has lobbied hard to keep hospitals using them. Black would hide all flavors of bodily fluids, so they wouldn't need to be cleaned as often. Instead we have to use pastel greens and blues that show every drop of blood and the tiniest smears of poo. It's disgusting.
Yo regular hospitals are freaky enough at night, please. I don't think a funeral color scheme would help
Outrage addiction is so real.
The irony is that you are the one who is outraged. Like I'm not trying to sass or insult you, but this is literally the conclusion they want you to have.
Of course this isn't a real problem, its basically a hate-click troll. But those clicks still equal profit so why not publish it, news is a profit centered business like anything else, not an objective view on "the truth".
I wouldn't say that I'm outraged, but I get what you're saying. It's just garbage for clicks.
I was just trying to turn a phrase off what you said, probably could've phrased it better. But I'm glad we are on the same page Captain.
No worries, and yeah we are. These news sites live for generating outrage, outrage about what others are outraged about, or occasionally both at the same time.
It's so frustrating to try to stay informed without feeling like a news source is trying to manipulate my emotions or spin stories for whichever side of the political spectrum they lean toward.
The answer is albedo, white is easier to find of you lose it especially in space.
also reflects more light/heat, reducing the need for radiators to manage heat. This is why most spacecraft are white.
I'm so fucking sick of everything being politicized. Now we're doing it with fucking plastic....
Robots in actual use are painted safety yellow or orange, because they are a safety hazard. Thus we put up warnings, fences and light gates. Plus shutoff buttons everywhere and a multi step process to turn them on.
Tesla's KUKA arms were red when I worked there. But that's probably because Elon hates yellow.
Each brand has their own colour they tend to use (unless a customer like Tesla orders something custom). Kuka usually is orange, Fanuc is yellow, ABB white, Yaskawa blue, etc.
IMO we need to stop humanizing robots. There is no reason for a robot to be human in form. Form should match function. Furthermore, a humanoid robots elicit feelings from people that are not helpful or healthy. There are people who might ~~advise~~ abuse a robot because it isn't an actual person, it doesn't mean that their abuse is less mentally ill. They should be viewed as a machine and treated as such, no better than a car.
Humans are bipedal for a reason, it’s one of the most versatile and efficient forms of mobility. Plus the world is designed for humans, making an humanoid robot allows them to interact with things made for humans more easily.
And humans can grow an attachment to and anthropomorphize plenty of non-humanoid objects. So I think it’s fine that it’s human shaped.
You ever play QWOP?
Ugh... can we just fucking stop already?
We need the semi transparent colorful plastics robots.
I'm totally into the idea of a robot covered in N64 funtastic grape.
I'm thinking of my special edition purple glittery Game Boy.
Letting people see all the crappy soldering and cable bridges does not please the shareholders.
actually, if we're painting them black, isn't that just blackface now?
It's not that people want to be upset, but that "news" sites get profit from clicks and attention. It's not that anyone cares about this, but saying people care about it gets hate views.
I mean, here you are talking about it...
Fuck it. All androids are now required to be highlighter yellow. That'll give em something to argue about.
So you’re comparing robots to Asians because they work a lot in school? That’s super racist.
No, we need blue robots like Smurfs. People won’t complain.
elect me president and i will mandate that all electronics of any kind be 80's beige pre-aged to piss-stained yellow.
Robots are white for the same reason Apple computers are white: to chase that 2001 A Space Odyssey aesthetic that's become shorthand for "futuristic."
Anyone remember the movie Ice Pirates? There’s a whole scene in there about the color of the robot.
Color: exists Newspapers: Does this color imply.. racism??
Sure, there is likely some racism involved, but it also has absolutely nothing to do with white being the cheapest type of ABS and PLA plastics. Greed trumps racism. And that was the most unintentionally descriptive sentence I have ever said about MAGA-ism.
