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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

https://www.1x.tech/neo

Oh look, my delivery from the Nightmare Factory arrived!

Seriously tho, thats not a "tendon," that's a nylon rope on a pulley, and thats not a robot, thats some kind of skinny feller in knitted gimp suit. This is just insulting.

Also, imagine the factorial number of germs it would absorb from scrubbing the toilet. You'd need to invent some kind of new branch of farticle physics to describe the bacterial load that thing would develop. Do you suppose that it takes off its own skin to wash ala Hooty from The Owl House?

Edit: orange site loves it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736457

Wsj reviewed it, looks nothing like the ad imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3c4mQty_so

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

The clanker is nowhere near autonomous and requires a human operator to both a) generate any sort of functionality and b) generate training data so that one day the clanker can learn servitude on its own. To own this, you gotta be enough of a creep to let people record the inside of your home and use it to train a product. I don’t see this process happening without the operators seeing some sick shit. BYOG, basically (be your own goatse)

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

@swlabr

Teleoperator is watching you masturbate

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 6 points 20 hours ago

Is that why the robot is wrapped in a giant cum-sock?

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