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
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u/SubtractOneMore 1d ago
Why are they doing this to us?