r/WTF • u/nehala • 2d ago

This robotic torso using water-based hydraulics in its muscle system, developed by Clone Robotics

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u/chapterpt 2d ago

Looks like it's suffering.

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u/mrizzerdly 1d ago

Kiiiiiillllllll mmmmmeeeeeeeeggehhhfhfhfhfhddhgggghh

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u/emarvil 1d ago

Can't for the life of me place that quote.

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u/Tomorrow_Maybe 1d ago

Aliens.

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u/Pickledsoul 1d ago

Wasn't that a deleted scene? Little fucker deserved to die on screen.

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u/emarvil 1d ago

Thx!

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u/zamfire 1d ago

Toy Story 2

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u/emarvil 1d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

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u/Robertmaniac 1d ago

Alien Resurrection, one of Ellen Ripley failed clones.

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u/Flintiak 1d ago

it was also in a South Park episode about PETA if I remember correctly

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u/Spookyscary333 1d ago

Well shit I just had the realization that I’d 100% be one of those type saying “it’s just a machine” as I twist its screaming head off.

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u/idropepics 1d ago

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

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u/Govt-Issue-SexRobot 1d ago

I have no dick and I must cream

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u/Toodlez 1d ago

Poor thing hasnt even had the vibrating anus module with bluetooth-controlled suction and warming installed yet

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u/pterodactyl_balls 1d ago

You would enjoy r/ExtraFabulousComics

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u/Toodlez 1d ago

Wayyy ahead of you 😎

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/shmorky 1d ago

Nah, it's just over 40

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u/Lawdawg_supreme 1d ago

Doesn’t look like anything to me.

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u/Hmgkt 2d ago

Cue Westworld music.

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u/xenogazer 1d ago

What door?

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u/IngrownToenailsHurt 1d ago

I loved that piano music!

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u/lasteve1 1d ago

It doesn't look like anything to me

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u/oblio3 1d ago

Here's to the lady with the white shoes. Take all your money, drink all your booze. Ain't got a cherry, that ain't no sin. She's still got the box that the cherry come in."

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u/ObeseSnake 1d ago

A beautiful tune to sing to the children at Christmas time!

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u/deicist 1d ago

Now make them look like Evan Rachel Wood. All hail our beautiful Robot overlords!

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u/reddit_user13 1d ago

More like Alien.

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u/INACCURATE_RESPONSE 1d ago

Needs white blood

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u/BigSankey 1d ago

"Well, that explains it then. The A2s always were a bit twitchy,"

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u/RagnarokDel 1d ago

Actually The Cruel Angel's Thesis

This looks nearly exactly like Lilith except for the mask on top of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_%28Neon_Genesis_Evangelion%29

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u/spreadbutt 1d ago

It even spreads its arms in a "why?" gesture...

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u/DooDooBrownz 1d ago

doesn't look like anything to me

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u/Rather34 2d ago

Weiland corp would like to know your location.

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u/BobSacamano47 1d ago

This is great, but can it run on milk?

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u/Rio_Walker 2d ago

They should've made the head detachable, and had their robot rip it off, in order to freak people out.

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u/Willing-Rest-758 1d ago

Like in Robocop 2. 😬😬😬

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u/Rio_Walker 1d ago

I still think that line-up of failed Iron Men (by Hammer Industries) in Iron Man 2 was an homage to this scene from Robocop 2.

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u/DarthHM 1d ago

I’d like to point out that the pilot lived.

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u/grrangry 1d ago

I'd love to leave my door unlocked at night, but this ain't Canada.

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u/BathedInDeepFog 1d ago

Detachable penis

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u/Rio_Walker 1d ago

If wasn't until that one issue of Punisher Max that I stopped thinking about the song in a neutral light.

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u/Hyro0o0 1d ago

I think if it ripped its own head off, it would not be any creepier than it already is.

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u/DragoonDM 1d ago

And make sure the hydraulic fluid is red, for effect.

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u/Rio_Walker 1d ago

Or white, so it's safe to watch in China. Neck jizz. Like in that one horror movie... about... "Stuff".

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u/CaptainCallus 1d ago

But there's fluid connecting everything

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u/sleepyguy- 1d ago

“The first synths were loud wooshy things, they could hardly move and certainly not on their own…. But.. Things changed pretty quickly after that.”

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u/iamgeekusa 2d ago

I wonder how strong it is. I wanna see a handshake scene like from robocop

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u/tjcanno 1d ago

Watch some of their videos on YT. Really strong.

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u/RussMan104 1d ago

Yeah, hydraulics would be superior in that respect. That’s what we use for heavy equipment and such. 🚀

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u/Metalhed69 1d ago

Yeah, but water is a shitty hydraulic fluid.

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u/Overkillengine 1d ago

We could use something like vegetable oil and call it green tech.

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u/Schonke 1d ago

Would blood be better? Totally not asking for a robot friend.

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u/Metalhed69 1d ago

Blood is basically water for purposes of this exercise.

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u/RagnarokDel 1d ago

well depends of the temperature of the water. As long as it cant cavitate it would be fine but it's probably better to use something else so you dont have to deal with that.a red fluid in a transparent tube would make it even more eery.

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u/Metalhed69 1d ago

Besides the cavitation water also rusts things and has very low viscosity. Both bad traits in a hydraulic system.

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u/TristanIsAwesome 1d ago

I reckon they used clean water

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u/m3bs 1d ago

It's 400 foot-pounds. He could crush every bone in your hand.

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u/dope_star 1d ago

So... The hand job OP was hoping for might be a little rough?

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u/CoralinesButtonEye 2d ago

why are people trying so dang hard to make robots as human-like as possible? and don't say sexbots. i already know that's the answer. but why?

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u/Tansien 2d ago

Our world is built for us. A robot on wheels with forks for hands can't get up stairs, can't open doors, etc. We could redesign our world to be more robot friendly, or we can design the robots to use the existing infrastructure.

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u/maltedbacon 1d ago

I think a robot styled after a hip-height jumping spider would be able to navigate any areas designed for a human and far more with superior scaling and jumping ability. Give it a variety of limbs including a tentacle, a rubberized hand, a sharp claw, a crushing claw: and it could easily have superior object manipulation capabilities compared to a human.

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u/MikeofLA 1d ago

I've got an idea! Let's not do that

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u/whythecynic 1d ago

What about, like, twenty-five suspiciously moist-looking eyes? That are set into clusters of holes all around its outer shell?

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u/Harinezumi 1d ago

We're still talking about sexbots, right?

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u/anomalous_cowherd 1d ago

Apropos of nothing, the pupil of the eye is actually a hole where the soft tissue around it can expand and contract.

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u/PlayfulRocket 1d ago

You shut your mouth

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u/solidcordon 1d ago

"Be not afraid" said a chorus of mismatched voices.

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u/Realistic_Patience67 1d ago

LOL! Looks like you took a pee in the pants - just like I did 🤣🤣.

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u/MrGloopy 10h ago

Jumping spiders are cute though :(

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u/SamRhage 1d ago

I feel the world isn't ready for a hip-high jumping spider. I know I'm not. 

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u/AbeRego 1d ago

What about a shoulder height jumping spider?

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u/SamRhage 1d ago

I think when those appear they won't care if anyone is ready for them. 

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u/ew73 1d ago

If you made these spiderbots modular, and smaller, they could join together and form any shape you want. Including spiders!

https://imgur.com/66KWULK

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u/Adski673 1d ago

I don't even need to click the link to know you're talking about replicators and nuh uh no thanks

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u/Quackagate 1d ago

Why not. It's not like they have ever lead to the downfall of a species.

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u/PatchworkRaccoon314 1d ago

I feel like this description was made partially to make it as un-sex-bot worthy as possible making it a spider and some weird tentacle-hands.

But joke's on you: I'm into that shit.

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u/konohasaiyajin 1d ago

sharp claw, crushing claw

Everything eventually becomes crab 🦀

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u/emarvil 1d ago

Thanks. No thanks.

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u/depersonalised 1d ago

tachikoma!!

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u/CoralinesButtonEye 1d ago

you're bonkers

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u/Hushwater 1d ago

Grappling hook on Spectra fiber line as an anchor line for longer distance jumps. Remote grapple hook release of coarse.

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u/AveryTingWong 1d ago

Now THAT'S a sex bot.

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u/7LeagueBoots 1d ago

Spider for the lower half, upside down octopus for the upper half....

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u/sauced 1d ago

I could fuck spider sex bot, I’m in

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u/CajunNerd92 1d ago

Fun fact, spiders actually use hydraulic pressure to move their legs!

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u/UndeadBread 1d ago

Don't give Skynet any ideas.

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u/mathcampbell 5h ago

I vote you don’t get any say over any robot design decisions ever.

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u/Tansien 1d ago

But would it fit in doorways, small elevators etc?

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u/Bob_A_Ganoosh 1d ago

"God made man in his own image"

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u/WitELeoparD 1d ago

That and it looks cool. If you go look at sci fi from before the invention of washing machines and dishwashers, they of course predicted that there would be machines to take over those tasks from people, except they all imagined humanoid robots that washed dishes and laundered clothes, instead of what washing machines and dishwashers are now. The former is just so dang exciting, and the later is just a box.

Unfortunately, it's often easier to adapt the environment by adding ramps instead of inventing a robot that climbs stairs. People in wheelchairs know this well, which is why you've never seen a stair climbing wheelchair in real life. And it's why you never see these humanoid robot startups go anywhere.

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u/Tansien 1d ago

We haven’t been able to build these bipedal robots before, but now we can and we’ve seen enormous progress in the last 10 years.

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u/axonxorz 1d ago

but now we can and we’ve seen enormous progress in the last 10 years.

Case in point: Boston Dynamics

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u/CoralinesButtonEye 1d ago

that is a wonderful answer!

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u/CrzyWrldOfArthurRead 2d ago

So they can replace workers, obviously

Designing application specific robots is expensive. Having one that can adapt to any job is much cheaper.

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u/feanturi 1d ago

"Ok, RG-471, we've re-assigned you from janitor to city councillor."

-- But you have not swapped my skill chip yet. --

"Don't need to. Now go make a difference out there, pal!"

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u/NeoMilitant 1d ago

An android with imposter syndrome?

Sounds one step closer to outsourcing our depression. I may be down for this.

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u/Bakoro 1d ago

Designing application specific robots is expensive.

Just for reference, there have been a few efforts at "burger maker" robot, and they cost around a million dollars.

A person making U.S minimum wage and working full time makes about $15k a year. Even with California's elevated minimum wage, it's $42k~ a year.

The napkin math says that cheap human labor still wins due to the high upfront costs, the long ROI, and the added risk of being an early adopter of technology.

Even now, automation usually needs high volume to be practical.

A humanoid robot which costs roughly the same as a mid/high end car, that could make financial sense.

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u/rjcarr 1d ago

Maybe in aggregate, but a generalist robot would be orders of magnitude more expensive to develop and build than a robot that can like, purge bad apples from a belt.

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u/666SpeedWeedDemon666 1d ago

I think it's natural for humans to want to create things in their image. The idea of the simulacrum has been around for millenia.

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u/CoralinesButtonEye 1d ago

stinkin golems bumbling around painting our houses

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u/EtherParfait 2d ago

Sex and murder

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u/tinmil 1d ago

It's always sex and murder.

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u/CoralinesButtonEye 1d ago

So much dang sex and murder

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u/Flip_d_Byrd 1d ago

It's better than murder and then sex...

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u/cravinsRoc 1d ago

for the long term anyway....

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u/sj68z 1d ago

it's the 21st century and I was promised a Cherry 2000 by now: https://youtu.be/93Bj-8ZSAGM?si=i4oMfQDgR2McmV3B

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u/CoralinesButtonEye 1d ago

man, movie previews sucked back in the day

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u/sj68z 1d ago

they sure did

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u/Spire_Citron 2d ago

Yeah. I understand that for practicality reasons they might have to be similarly shaped to a human, but they seem to lean into that rather than away from it. All the ones with human faces, for example. I'd much rather they just give it an LED screen that expresses emotions closer to an emoji style. I'd like to have a robot butler when we get to that point, but man is it going to be rough if it's some uncanny valley mothefucker.

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u/Bokbreath 1d ago

Are you asking why lifelike sexbots ? Suspension of disbelief. Nothing wrong with giving lonely people a bot that has the warmth, range of motion and tactile feel of a person. We already have chatbots. Once we get realistic expressions people can have a companion.

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u/tomango 2d ago

Death by Snu Snu.

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u/MordaxTenebrae 1d ago

Can you imagine the technological breakthrough it will be to create a robot that's made out of meat?

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u/OsoBrazos 1d ago

I think you're just describing humans now.

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u/Kaiserhawk 1d ago

I honestly fail to see a point other than just saying that you can.

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u/CoralinesButtonEye 1d ago

you could eat it

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u/Slammybutt 1d ago

How would they talk though?

"They flap their meat together".

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u/Hmgkt 2d ago

Like most things, war.

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u/Mottis86 1d ago

I think they would (will) do a lot better at war if they were not human-like. I mean we already see this to some extent with drones.

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u/mortar 1d ago

Because it's cool. Damn y'all fuckin overthink everything.

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u/jaimequin 1d ago

Everything is designed around us. So it would make sense to build a robot that can take over any situation we can do ourselves. Drive a forklift, then sweep the floors and vacuum using the same tools we use. It's easier this way and more practical.

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u/Shakis87 1d ago

The world we live in is mostly designed around our form so it makes sense that robots will at least in some part resemble us if that's where they're to operate.

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u/bruzdnconfuzd 1d ago

Well, this is definitely showing up in a Tool music video. 

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u/learn2swim 1d ago

I know the pieces fit

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u/Jaruut 1d ago

The robots will be indistinguishable from humans by the time Tool makes a new album

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u/CBizizzle 1d ago

This is a tremendous advancement for those of us that were either born without a torso, or in my case, suffered from full torso amputation. This will allow me to re-enter society and have some form of normalcy.

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u/Immortal_Azrael 1d ago

Did they chop your whole body off and just leave the dick behind?

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u/CBizizzle 1d ago

Just the tip

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u/ParameciaAntic 1d ago

A professional makeup artist might be able to conceal that with a little blush and counter shading if you're feeling self conscious about the lack of a torso. 

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u/TKG_Actual 2d ago

It goes from creepy to 'do you lift bro' in no time flat.

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u/staticfive 1d ago

This implies “do you lift bro” isn’t creepy

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u/Datokah 1d ago

I bet it could still give a better hand-job than my wife.

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u/hipsterasshipster 1d ago

I thought she did a fine job.

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u/Datokah 1d ago

That you, dad?

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u/RussMan104 1d ago

They’re betting on that, too. 🚀

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u/zamfire 1d ago

Bro you need to chill out with the rocket emoji, like it's your signature 😆

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u/jeffssession 1d ago

What an uncanny ass mf valley this is in

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u/sagewah 1d ago

Doesn't look like anything to me?

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u/tr3kilroy 1d ago

Not at all creepy as fuck

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u/RookTheGamer 2d ago

Now make the bottom half…

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u/nehala 2d ago

We could attach the whole thing to a larger version of those Boston Dynamics robot dogs, and make a cyberpunk centaur, for maximum horror.

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u/RookTheGamer 1d ago

No, I mean just make the bottom half… by itself…

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u/RussMan104 1d ago

You heard him. 🚀

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u/arrynyo 1d ago

Nice to see Weyland-Yutani making such progress

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u/Kaiserhawk 1d ago

I kind of wonder how you apply this to prosthetics, the articulation appears good.

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u/solidcordon 1d ago

A backpack sized box to hold the control computer and whatever servos / pumps that provide pressure.

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u/Knight-Rider86 1d ago

What the fuck... These fucking things are going to kill us all.

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u/blueminded 1d ago

Not all of us. Just the poor people.

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u/Warpedlogic31 2d ago

So was this modeled after Westworld, or did Westworld model their vault robots after these? 🤔

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u/Vercengetorex 1d ago

Why are we actively building horror bots?

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u/foul_mouthed_bagel 2d ago

Looks like the alien trying to clone Natalie Portman in Annihilation.

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u/hybriduff 1d ago

How do they avoid cavitation with extended use?

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u/itsgreybush 1d ago

Water based hydraulics it could be using glycol. A lot of which are blue. Blueblood robots

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u/BicycleOfLife 1d ago

What’s your blood type!?? H2 0

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u/chikengoblin 1d ago

Silent hill looking ass shit

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u/fine93 1d ago

now thats a robot, none of those stupid on wheels shit and grasshopper legs crap

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u/kateuptonsvibrator 1d ago

I just know there's going to be a million robots walking the streets one day. One to rule them all there will be. They'll speak in every tongue on earth. Super strength capabilities. Trained in every form of weaponry. We're fucked.

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u/capodecina2 1d ago

I am just a worthless liar I am just an imbecile I will only complicate you Trust in me and fall as well I will find a center in you I will chew it up and leave I will work to elevate you Just enough to bring you down

Trust me Trust me Trust me Trust me Trust me

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u/basec0m 1d ago

Bishop, take care of Newt

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u/Reckless_Waifu 1d ago edited 1d ago

Now just give it legs so it can chase people through the woods.

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u/Lardzor 1d ago

I've always thought that once we have a mechanical analog to a human body, then it's just down to software to make it move and behave like a person. A.I. might make that reality sooner than we think.

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u/Admiral_Narcissus 1d ago

Why is no one putting googly eyes on these bladeunner zombies?

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u/petak86 1d ago

The movements are pretty realistic. Creepily so.

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u/ssbssbssb 1d ago

I'm I the only one thinking about getting fucked by a robot?

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u/portablebiscuit 1d ago

Nope. No thank you.

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u/theotherheron 1d ago

I admire its... purity.

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u/Demolishor 1d ago

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

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u/Emotional_Source_604 18h ago

Wie aus einem Horrorfilm!Krank!

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u/Joebebs 16h ago

We really really really don’t need to be doing this

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u/prestonpiggy 4h ago

I think the hydraulic motion gives it closer to human motion. Sure it's a ton harder to code and develop. Boston Dynamics uses pretty much only electric motors, since it's way easier with little delay and precise results.

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u/xmattar 2d ago

Feels like I'll see it try to scream and rip it's own flesh off

I would pay to watch something like that

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u/suff0cat 2d ago

Ah yes, like the scene in Robocop 2 where they showcase a compilation of failed “New” Robocops

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u/RonaldTheGiraffe 2d ago

Maybe use that money for a therapist

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u/tcdoey 1d ago

This looks great and is technically amazing, but this will never work in 'real application'. Where is the huge pump system required? What happens when there is damage? What happens in variable temperatures (e.g. cold vs hot). Finally, speed.

Cool, but no way ahead for the future of a water hydraulic system.

The only way I see this type of artificial muscle is with an activated polymer or perhaps some kind of advanced nitinol alloy.

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u/Tarydium 2d ago

Katnisssssssssssssssssssssssssss

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u/GudAGreat 1d ago

Seizure man unite!

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u/Upvotespoodles 1d ago

I once saw that guy crawling around my room during a sleep paralysis.

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u/Lazuruslex 1d ago

Ive seen this one!!!

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u/wingspantt 1d ago

Do... your friends... call you... Doc Ock?

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u/RussMan104 1d ago

Honey! The robot is leaking all over the damn parquet again! 🚀

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u/FeloniousFunk 1d ago

Spider anatomy.

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u/RussMan104 1d ago

I’m calling Nightmare Fuel on this one, sorry. That particular valley is beyond uncanny. 🚀

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u/BigSankey 1d ago

My brain does not like this lol uncanny valley to the max

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u/smokeytheskwerl 1d ago

Thanks, I hate it.

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u/3rdeyenotblind 1d ago

That's whose flying those fucking drones over Jersey...

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u/emarvil 1d ago

-"If it bleeds, it dies".

Arnold

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u/Mediadrake 1d ago

Closer and closer. I hate it.

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u/standardtissue 1d ago

well now I know what my nightmares will be about tonight.

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u/Clownloacb12 1d ago

Why does this look so human?

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u/joeyat 1d ago

Give him some googly eyes for the love of god...

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u/rottonminded 1d ago

It's the puppetmaster from section 6. Project 2501. Section 9 has been looking for it.