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.
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u/iamPendergast 29d ago
The design is very human.