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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago

The real art lies in designing it in such a way the the destruction it will inevitably bring wrecks the building in such a way that someone entering it will find the sticks in the order that will reveal more and more ominous details.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wanted to know if they made any real advances in muscle actuators so I looked this up. They're pneumatic, and the model in the photo barely moves and doesn't stand on its own. An article said they will switch to hydraulics in the future. Neither pneumatics or hydraulics is efficient enough to be useful in a standalone human sized machine, so this looks like more of an art piece aimed at fleecing some idiot venture capitalists.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To be fair. They are really dumb and easy to fleece. Remember Elons "robots" that were just people in suits.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 1 points 5 days ago

They have been upgraded to puppets. Humans are still needed for operation.

[–] Quadhammer 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Are humans technically hydraulic with all the blood and such?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Think spiders are.

[–] michaelmrose 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No hydraulic would imply using fluid pressure to effect work whereas we use electricity to contract and relax muscle fibers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

While muscle contraction is triggered electrically (or electrolytically, considering the role that ions play in action potentials) the physical force of the contraction is generated by a mechanochemical process.

[–] littlewonder 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Looks like a Westworld prototype, designed by a Daft Punk fan.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I wonder if they intended to make Westworld bots initially or it was accidental?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

If you don't treat them as proper nouns, one could argue it's both.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I appreciate the vibe, but this thing would be hilariously incompetent. It'd be like if all the sperm in a cum sock each individually gained sentience and tried to control the sock like a mech. That is to say - it would not be very effective.

[–] GreenKnight23 6 points 6 days ago

what a terrible day to be literate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

man, the audio logs in Watch Dogs were a genius idea; it gives much more insight to the characters you see in the game in a natural way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I thought stuff like this was cool when I was a kid, and I suppose it is when the technical achievement is only considered. But I'm now I'm left wondering why we would ever want anything like this? It's meant to replace a person.

[–] Demdaru 2 points 6 days ago

Efficiency, which these machines probably will not achieve in our lifetimes. When you can simply produce another worker, stuff can be done quicker and safer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

these clone guys are actually so sick btw, they've been working on this stuff for years on their youtube channel, bunch of really cool shit. Worth a dig into.

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 2 points 6 days ago

I dont care, this title is the real one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Always but a self destruct on prototypes like this! They'll never be an iron man rebellion on my watch!

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is the time to step back and ask ourselves if women's sex toys have gone too far.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Shapillon 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Usually clitoral stimulation is more useful than craming something up untip it tickles your eyeball :p

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[–] Whats_your_reasoning 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

No need to be jealous now. There's nothing about this toy that forbids men and enbies from trying it too. ;)

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[–] TootSweet 41 points 1 week ago

No, robot, the xenomorph is not the "perfect organism." That's a bad robot. Now let me inject more milk into your tubes here. I think I'll call you "Ash".

[–] gedaliyah 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Day 2: It seems to have shifted overnight. We are adding a continuous power source to prevent failure during unsupervised hours.

Day 11: More items have gone missing from the lab.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

It works even better if the first entries are triumphant and overly optimistic while obvious mistakes and warming are ignored ore recasted as positives.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Must have missed the terminator movie with these dad bods

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Body shaming an android? REALLY? 😂

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[–] dustyData 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It looks like Adam from Evangelion. We need to put a restraining exoskeleton on it right now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Lilith actually

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (7 children)

what if it could do all that and grow fermented delicacies in its robot extra parts

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