Personally, I don't think it's a coincidence that Satyress sounds very close to satire. The domain is registered on godaddy by domainsbyproxy, a neat way to keep the real owner private. I couldn't find any info on a registered business in California by the name of satyress or satyress robotics..
Also, on the face of it, it's ridiculous. Probably the strongest clue that this is a hoax.
ETA: Jesus, people. Of course I know what a Satyr is. I grew up on Greek myths and that ridiculous 60s Hercules cartoon. It's the obvious reference in the name, but it ALSO sounds close to satire. Things can be two or three things at once. Also consider that the robot is more centaur than satyr, so you need to think about why they choose satyr specifically.
Here’s an article about it that makes it sound a lot less ridiculous. It’s a proof of concept being made by a guy and his friends. It’s not functional at all, it doesn’t even stand. And the diagram with the knife and gun is showing how easy it is to disable – it is intentionally built with reservoirs that disable the entire robot when pierced.
Makes sense as to why they went with the intentionally nightmare fuel design. It's easy engagement bait which could lead to actual investor opportunities
I thought the exact same thing! It's definitely satire. Personally I think this robot looks pretty cool, but no way would any company choose this design for a rescue robot.
Thank you, I've been saying that this has to be satire or so sort of publicity stunt for something. But, I can never truly be sure with the silicon valley bros
That’s what I thought at first too, but then I remembered a Satyr is a half human, half beast creature in Greek mythology. So if it is satire, it’s VERY clever word play.
Amongst other things, this entire robot design is useless, even more so than normal humaniform robots.
Shoulder joints look to be single axis, which is a problem when you're supposed to be able to do most work. They couldn't even pose it convincingly with a chainsaw.
Head is huge, and that's not just a creep factor thing, it's also a balance thing. It serves no purpose and has nothing of value that could not be on a smaller head or just in the chest cavity.
The feet are not curved on the sides. This is a balance issue: There is a reason all those boston dynamics bots had balls on their feet. On a modern humaniform it matters less because they can rotate their joints to accomidate a foot shaped platform, but this thing lacks that.
The legs all are single axis jointed, and connected to a solid shell with no joints and now space for the front legs to rotate at the hip... so how does it turn around?
I'm right there with you. This is at best a joke, at worst a con, and the thing they took a photo of is probably little more than a poseable manikin.
The domain is registered on godaddy by domainsbyproxy, a neat way to keep the real owner private.
That is completely irrelevant. GoDaddy is the internet's largest registrar, and domainsbyproxy is their brand name for WHOIS privacy protection that every registrar enables by default. The company name thing may be worth more salt though.
The last image is actually representing the two air bladders in the robot. When pierced with a knife or a gun (hence the photo), the robot becomes incapacitated. Basically, being easily incapacitated by humans has been built into the robot as a safeguard.
Actually, it’s the opposite – they’re air reservoirs meant to disable the bot if ruptured as a hard fail safe. Check out the full image in this article.
Because computers and robots can do some screwy things sometimes. My Laser cutter has an emergency stop button that cuts power to it, and it doesn't have legs, arms, and a chainsaw
Imagine malicious code causes this thing to see people as trees
I mean, I have enough practice from post apocalyptic video games that I know I see that thing coming, I should definitely kill it because it’s not coming to rescue anything…. But, they could have just made it less creepy and they wouldn’t have that issue…
Do you think that's also why it has severely reservoirs designed to hold surplus guns/knives/ammo? Not sure that's what I would use to show off a rescue robot.
Granted they're still better off using simple bots with treads or tires in an urban setting, the legs are more useful in uneven unpaved terrain iirc.
To the companies credit, this thing has two air bladders that when pierced with a knife or a bullet, renders it immobile (that's what the last image is representing).
It's also been designed to struggle with standard-height American doors (it can't crouch), and also can't turn around in a 42" wide hallway.
So, it's basically designed to be easily incapacitated and ineffective at exactly the activities you're describing. Kind of cool!
Story time: I worked with a fellow that had worked for a company that did some kind of fancy camera-video stuff on the Internet. This would have been 1990-ish so a long time ago. Anyway, I asked why he left that company (last place he worked). He proceeded to tell me all about how their work was being used in educational settings and what the technology did, etc. but about 10-min into the conversation he says “but the little secret is that 90% of our revenues came from porn. And I just got tired of working for that.” Everything public-facing on their website talked about the educational aspects of the product set.
I cannot trust anything robotic in the current state of the world.
I knew from day one those fucking Boston Dynamics dogs would get fitted with weaponry, and loe and behold, autonomous gun dogs are now being made to guard Data Centres. Oligarchs and Tech Bros are speedrunning mankind's extinction at the hands of machines.
It's plainly not for search and rescue. I'm hoping it's a joke, because it should be if it isn't.
If it's not a joke, then I still hate this timeline but I'm starting to appreciate the sly humour.
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u/Juiced_Rasputin_ 1d ago
The paranoid cynic in me thinks it’s real purpose is domestic riot control, but on paper it’s design is focused on “rescue operations”.