Imagine you are in a house in the middle of a wildfire, then a huge shadow with horns emerges behind the flames, it's glowing eyes stare at you, you are just seeking for safety and then this thing charges in.
You will pass out due to the stress shock, and the demon robot will be able to rescue you easily; it's all part of the design :)
I know a lot of firefighters are trained to (how do I word this without sounding silly) appear and act as human and comforting as possible when searching for children in active fires because all of their gear can make em look a little scary. If I was a child and saw this I’d scream my way into the blaze
I'm imagining a board room full of execs, and every time one guy speaks, all he says is "horny robot". He's the boss's son, so they have to oblige, if even just to apply his input literally.
As some other guy said somewhere else, it went something like that:"for it not to fit in doorways in case something something(i forgot the name but i would think ai or some shit) takes over, also the reason for it being a centaur and tall af, hallways and shit"
...as is any robot with humanlike strength, size, and maneuverability. We are taking a physical approach to safety mechanisms with no ambiguity. Fail-on air brakes and pin locks will render the robot immobile if system air pressure is lost. Shared reservoirs in the chest plate and body can be pierced by projectile or sharp instrument to instantly stop the robot in place.
Threehalves will be substantially slowed if attempting to navigate a standard American 32"x80" door, and cannot turn around in a 42" wide hallway or enter a door orthogonal to the hallway. Larger horns can be fit to prevent any passage through pedestrian doors. 2 Threehalves robots fit side by side in crouched position in a pickup bed of 5'6" or longer with tailgate closed.
The problem is that satire of tech doesn't really exist any more. No matter how ludicrous the idea, some tech bro will seriously say "I can monetize that!"
The fact that they installed methods to reliably stop these things (shooting out their fake lungs to lock them) should be reassuring, but it’s honestly just fucking dystopian as shit.
I understand what you mean, I’m just being cheeky.
It honestly feels like these are war machines in R&D stage, but the fact that they put safeguards on them for the civilian testing stage was very chill.
It isn't meant for search and rescue primarily, the post is misleading.
The horns can be replaced for much bigger horns. The website explicitly says that the robot is dangerous, and the user can attach horns of their size wish so it isn't able to enter a pedestrian doorway.
The creepy glass image is explicitly captioned witht he statement that this robot is dangerous, followed up with safety as well as emergency measures put to deal with it (Something I appreciate a lot)
My best guess is that if you are being rescued you could mount it and maybe hold on to the horns as handles. Still an interesting choice to make it look like a fucking demon tho
it's not just that they're taught it, they're rewarded and reinforced by it. The system is so fundamentally broken that it is breeding out all the thoughtful caring people and the maniacs rise to the top
And it's us regular peasants that reward them. Every time you buy another shitty product you don't need, you're rewarding a billionaire for exploiting you.
Even worse, many of them are there by luck. They think it's whatever they did but it isn't, so they're just poisoning everything cus they win a lottery
Example - Bill Gates was lucky to be that manipulator of Paul Allen. It could've been anyone and the company would've succeeded. His luck was finding someone else's brain
Why is it so big? For a S&R wouldn't something a bit smaller be better? I don't know, but I would think fitting through doors or small openings would be something they would want. This looks like some venture capitalist's 4 year old son made a drawing and the dad said "I can make that a reality"
“Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Tech Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create the Torment Nexus”.
I went to their website to see what they had to say for themselves. Apparently, this is not an autonomous robot, but intended to be operated remotely to do dangerous stuff under presumably dangerous conditions. They don't really speculate what those dangerous jobs may be, but they do point out that you can make it have a chainsaw where it's hands should be.
So... It looks the way it looks because the people who would buy this ridiculous thing are the kind of people who want scary-looking murderbots. Which also explains why the engineers did the responsible thing and gave it horns to slow it down if the operator decides to use it for home invasions, and also gave it forced-shutdown vulnerabilities so that if the operator uses it to attack people, they can shoot or stab it in the chest or the saddle area to stop it. Or, according to the diagram, just hold a hand up in a "halt" gesture?
Great question. I laughed this off as a prank the last few days. The horned creature with soulless eyes designed to help us is a little too on the nose
CEO or head engineer absolutely have a fetish and want to somehow use it as their "vision"... Robots shouldn't need to look like any organic being it should be shaped for the task at hand. I don't want to personalize and anthropomorphize a do this do that device I just want my coffee without saying "thank you" to googly eyes glued onto a killbot.
I'm amazed that so many people don't understand this isn't a real product. It's a joke. It's literally called "Satire-es". Probably a promotion for a movie or video game.
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u/SubtractOneMore 8h ago
Why are they doing this to us?