It's funny because an assistant robot actually has no reason to be a humanoid (an incredibly top-heavy and inefficient design) unless you want to market it to people who want to own slaves. - ThreadSky

voicesbyzane.bsky.social • 7 hours ago

It's funny because an assistant robot actually has no reason to be a humanoid (an incredibly top-heavy and inefficient design) unless you want to market it to people who want to own slaves.

Reposted from Conell

Oh wow look the first commercially available home assistant robot.
And it looks absolutely HAUNTING.

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sinonhumanity.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I wouldn't mind a little friend-shaped companion to help around the house.
I certainly wouldn't want this damn thing, especially with its analog horror stare.

abicadabriva.bsky.social•4 hours ago

No because I would actively avoid that thing in my home. I understand - make it human but also it’s.. gonna be impractical surely? How will it get up if it falls? Or is stuck?

phalaenopsis-pyxis.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Fu real, like I'm sure even a fallout codsworth type robot would be better.

voicesbyzane.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Like if you really wanted to make a helper robot you could take one of those four legged ones and put an arm on its back right. But oh yeah boston dynamics works for the military haaha womp womp gotta use the robot dogs to kill homeless people in 6 years.

voicesbyzane.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Like if you want a fully automated kitchen I'm sure you could make that work with programmed dish washers etc. If you're willing to spend the absurd price this will cost just to have a bipedal humanoid shuffling around your home doing chores and saying "yes sir" sorry it's because you want a slave.

voicesbyzane.bsky.social•6 hours ago

You can accuse me of making gross generalizations about the character of people I don't know but you know damn well the rich dipshits who will be conned into actually sinking money on this piece of shit are the same people who are like "erm do people REALLY need to create art instead of working?"

voicesbyzane.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Also before you "well TO BE FAIR" me no fucking grandma is going to be buying one of these things to help her around the house. Come on. Not with the medicaid cuts coming.

itscaptaindisco.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I would, sincerely, rather have a robot like R2D2

upongoblinhill.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I'd rather there be inhuman highly-articulated industrial equipment-shaped robots working menial tasks than a human-shaped slavebot. We learned nothing from Cubix.

gnoll-hug-kobolds.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Also, aren’t we still at the stage where a Southeast Asian piloting it in real time for starvation wages is more doable than an independent, critically-thinking machine?

twinklehowitzer.bsky.social•6 hours ago

There is a market for this dude and they are wasting it.

guardianpigeon.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The Ideal robot for cleaning should look more like an eldritch terror than a human.

I dont want another person in my house awkwardly stumbling around doing chores, I want some mechanical beast with a thousand eyes and claws getting stuff done quickly and efficiently.

zackonline.bsky.social•48 minutes ago

I am… at the very least happy they did not try to make it look human…

adrianwarlock.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I just want something that unloads the dishwasher and puts away my clothes. If I can put a fun little hat on it I'm happy for it to be any shape that's not going to freak me out when I go get a glass of water at 2am.

eviconstantine.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I could have argued that humanoid robots would be easy to hype up n sell because that's how we always have seen em in movies and how we imagined they would be in cool sci-fi settings...but then I remembered, those things are super clunky and work worse than a Japanese waiter roomba that looks cuter.

strigoi.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I'm not sharing my home with something that looks like it would chase me into the arms of a fucking Xenomorph.

robotlyra.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I was dunking on this thing in terms of a failure of appealing design, from the angle of "there's no reason to make a robot human except for an engineering flex to show off how well they can imitate a human" but I never considered the Acceptable Chattel angle and now I'll never unsee it.

jordizzle.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I asked AI to design the perfect robot assistant and this is what it spit out.

dirtymichael.bsky.social•4 hours ago

johhny five!!

voicesbyzane.bsky.social•6 hours ago

REASSEMBLE!

bandcgames.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Isn’t that just the robot from Short Circuit?

jordizzle.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Yup, it's Johnathan Five himself!

voicesbyzane.bsky.social•6 hours ago

He's alive!

theanimationvoice.com•1 hour ago

My man, Johnny 5!!!

nukboii.bsky.social•6 hours ago

also you can immediately tell its gonna suck shit lmao. there is absolutely no way that the weird slave owner wannabe fucks who buy this arent gonna come home from work and see this c3po knockoff squirming on the floor, unable to get up after it tripped on a table leg.

dmisemer.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It even comes in black face!

roxtob.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Why did they give it eyes

roxtob.bsky.social•59 minutes ago

I understand that you have to make it humanoid because the people who’d actually buy it want slaves but why the fuck did you make it look like it wants me dead

theraspandonly.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Gimme a little fella any day over uncanny valley-bot

medwardsva.bsky.social•4 hours ago

If I was ever going to have a robot, I want a funny little guy. I don't want some haunting IRobot looking faceless android stalking my house

theraspandonly.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The best robots are always classified under Lil' Fellas and Big Fellas.

millenniumbugs.bsky.social•6 hours ago

why are they making the Cyber androids from Earthshock real

colt0.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I just want a little droid that beeps and boops, not one who can strangle me in my sleep

liex.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This reminds me of the moment me and my friend considered the fact that someone had to pitch the first black servant robot in Detroit Become Human

turtlecano.bsky.social•3 hours ago

(at 7:16) i think this interview encapsulates why robots should look like robots super duper well
https://youtu.be/-iLcOLvNfz0?si=J3Pl49XU2kLncktO&t=436

jametc.bsky.social•6 hours ago

originally a lot of these were humanoid because they were made to use human tools, ie scissors or open ovens or whatever, but honestly at this point I think you're right
it's why so many AI voices were female- people found it easier to command than male voices. But now even that's changing

jametc.bsky.social•6 hours ago

the greatest crime here is that my dream of having an android roommate/boyfriend I could put little sweaters and jackets and whatever on and who would make me lattes has now been destroyed, and I'll never forgive them for that

squidradio.bsky.social•3 hours ago

All we need are those Rocky 4 helper bots, but like functional.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAULIE.

thefarthingandfox.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Honestly if I saw this in real life I would be stricken with terror

squiddskipp.bsky.social•6 hours ago

i also find it kinda weird that all the roboslaves are completely featureless, devoid of any personality at all. robots are cool, in everything except real-life apparently

chrishighwellactor.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Slenderman?

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