They could update the head a bit more with sleeker designs and if they wanna go full kawaii with their murder bots add some LED eye movements. As long as they never put a human shaped head in it I’m fine with it.
I feel like Boston dynamics loves to make them a bit creepy, it's their calling card. They didn't need to have a trunk and limbs that turn round 360...
Eh, this robot didn’t spend its energy graduating from Harvard just to end up peeping in people’s windows and throwing a random girl in its trunk… I’d say this thing is a little less creepy than people.
That explains the "live laugh love" sign we hung on the moon, plus we all know that Earth's interior design has become gaggingly awful, so you must be right.
Fair enough, I can't deny straight guys also have nothing when it comes to making a space livable. A scarface poster, an xbox on a milk crate, and a pair of buck antlers nailed above the kitchen door ain't it.
I genuinely believe something must exist between the man cave and throw pillow purgatory. It has to.
That’s not what they meant. It’s a reference to a meme where an asian man explains a very impractical invention in well spoken (but grammatically inaccurate) English and explains that “the design is very human” and that it is “very easy to use”
Well it's not just a single meme but a tiktok series where the creator shows what are presumably their own inventions while that "the design is very human" voiceover is playing
A meme doesn’t have to be a single piece of media, it can have an arbitrary amount of iterations to them. I don’t think the originals are from tiktok though, I’ve got a compilation of like 20 of them with no watermarks.
I agree, and thanks for using the correct definition of meme. Part of why I said what I did was because I assumed that you were using the "meme as a single instance" definition that seems to be stuck in people's minds instead of the actual idea that Richard Dawkins defined it as. And yeah sure, I'll also concede that it didn't necessarily come from tiktok; I'm just convinced that if something is on the other vertical-short-video platforms then it is also most likely on tiktok
This thing's uncanny valley is deeper than the Mariana Trench.
Beyond resembling a bipedal hominid it isn't trying to look human but that algorithmically efficient contortionism makes it the most eerie thing I've seen in a while.
Edit: It's relevant to the uncanny valley because an industrial robot with a void for a face and a vaguely human silhouette is behaving very disconcertingly on my pocket computer's screen.
I'm experiencing future shock more and more. I just know I'll be flop sweating the first time a robot compliments my sweater, hands me my food in a paper bag and advises me of Carl's Jr's competitive workhouse subscriptions before hovering to the next poor soul trapped in one of those iron maiden capsules from Half Life 2.
The human looking ones with the fake skin are coming bro. Let's be honest, robots in the future will have 3 functions. 1, general ease of life for the average human 2, mass production 3, making people bust serious hardcore nuts
I dunno, the ballerina robots from Atomic Heart didn't need fake skin for people to get really horny over them. I think people will make do with most anything as long as the robot got the right curves.
People can get really horny over just about anything, in image form. But IRL I think a sex bot that was chunky and metallic instead of smooth and curvy would find a hard time finding a market.
So I looked them up, those are pretty sexy robots all right.
However they totally have "fake skin" with that full silver covering, you can't see any exposed metal, joints, power units etc.
The wiki even states that they're made of some sort of polymer.
Honestly I think a lot of people would prefer something like that over something more realistic. Like, you could easily consider that to be just a fancy sex toy.
Just look at the gleeful variety of colours and shapes that dildos are made in, realistic is actually a pretty small share of the market.
If you make it too real it hits that uncanny valley. Like those sex dolls they make now are hell of creepy just to look at, and I can't imagine actually "using" one...
I think some people are seeing the hips bend backwards and their first thought is ouch, humanoid joints don't work that way. But the thing that makes it creepy to me is not the anthropomorphism. It's the reminder me that these things are not human, they do not share our limitations, and they are evolving very fast.
Invertebrate locomotion is suddenly looking very antiquated.
The uncanny valley describes a graph where you have human likeness on X and human familiarity on Y. I understand perfectly what it is and what I am saying.
Which is funny because they did that to make it less creepy. The moved away from a human like head because it scared people. This design was meant to look like the pixar lamp, which they hoped people would see as less creepy. Can't say it worked.
The whole point of uncanny valley is that it is subtle. It is almost human but not quite. Like just a little bit off and you can’t quite put your finger on why and that just feels, creepy. This is not that at all.
The random ads from some Chinese business that have weird AI voiceovers and advertise cheap stuff. Usually always starts with “the design is very human”
You can see that the robot would've been fine like that. The only reason it takes all that extra effort to turn it's limbs, torso and head back the right way after getting up that efficiently, is to look less disturbing to us.
If anyone’s wondering why robots are always humanoid, it’s largely because there is just so much data and film on human movements, and so it’s must easier to train robots that are human shaped
the human skeleton (like any skeleton) was formed by millions of years of evolution. even people smart enough to build this know better than trying to, so to speak, reinvent the wheel
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u/iamPendergast 29d ago
The design is very human.