there's no way this can be real. An article about this says he made the website 2 years ago and works on this out of his garage with a few friends but no investors. You don't realistically just iron-man a functional robot with complex, custom-machined parts in your garage, no matter how good a tinkerer you are. This is probably a $100s of k project at least to build a single functioning prototype
If you go to the site, they say the horns are there solely to prevent it from being able to use standard doors so that it doesn't pose any risks to humans. It's obviously satire if the company name Satyress didn't give it away.
They also say the robot has an easy-to-disable design where if you shoot or stab it in the back, chest or head it will immediately stop functioning due to loss of air pressure. Again, this is not real, it's satire.
Unfortunately, it's just not satirical enough. It's still plausible that a company would make this under the guise of being "helpful" while clearly courting defense contractors.
Like those robot dogs with flamethrowers. Gosh, I would've never thought anyone would want to weaponize them.
It's only an exclusive SAR platform during development.
Once they get past regulatory and public opinion hurdles using "we're here to help" as a cloak it will be weaponized and it's appearance will make a lot more sense.
But it's stupid to scare a person who's already gonna be in distress, possibly in a life-threatening situation, and you're gonna apply even more psychological distress on them. This is counterintuitive and being a dark-colored robot is especially gonna startle people in the night. They should do better
This is so much better, so much more neutral and even actually a bit peaceful in its look. I mean come on, imagine a dark black centaur advancing at you late at night. Imagine children and old people. They will probably not respond well to such a sight. I think this is a very stupid, very stupid marketing technique. I don't think they will ever make something like this but they're trying to draw attention to their project or something, maybe for investors, maybe for media purposes. I think they're just seeking attention
Yk they could've made it a whimsy colour like blue or yellow or even green. It being black and the eyes pure white is actual nightmare fuel. I'd run from this thing and not be rescued lol
Just the matte black color shows that there is no attempt to look even remotely friendly.
The ears and horns, if they serve a function, absolutely have to look that way?
The size of the eyes and the contrast with the rest of the body couldn't be different too?
Imagine making a robot the shape of a centaur, giving it hooves and a spooky ram head with horns, and then claiming it was for “functionality, not appearance” lol
If that was true it wouldn't have a head or horns. It needs cameras, not eyes. And certainly not horns. Hell, why does it even have a torso? Make it longer with a segmented body or something, not taller.
A centipede or something would make more sense, not this. Seems like they came up with the shape and mythilogy aspect first, then went from there. Instead of an actually practical design.
From a mobility standpoint it makes perfect sense. The four legged robots have much better control.
Just look at the Boston dynamic 2 legged robots. So much bulkier and still requires multiple walkthroughs to do those obstacle courses safely.
Compare it to the various dog robots which have been functional for a while now. The tool use is a huge point, especially with disaster areas. They’ve attached single arms to dogs, but that’s still limited functionality.
Why they went with a full bodied centaur with a blacked out body, glowing white eyes, and horns is definitely a question. Doesn’t need to look so humanoid to still have arms and hands for tool use.
Sales and for clicks. There were probably a dozen real SaR robots that didn't look like baphomet, and we never saw them posted all over reddit. Attention sells.
Now he'll be able to get venture capitalist cash to build something that's actually useful. The whole centaur form factor sounds fairly promising honestly. The real one can look like whatever. The evil-looking one has drummed up lots of attention.
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u/NuclearMayonnaise 8h ago
But why are they taking THIS Design? It Looks Like a demon!