“We’ve now constructed the doomsday machine from the popular novel ‘Don’t build the doomsday machine’”
I like the original “torment nexus” phrasing better.
Ah I was quoting from memory. You’re right the torment nexus line is better.
You have an overly broad definition of “doomsday machine.”
The result is nice and cool. It is the level of modern journalism that is disturbing.
I worry about it. Every year I see more articles with sloppy mistakes that could be caught by any half-drunk editor phoning his job in. Sites springing up publishing 90% slop clearly so someone can keep writing. Not to mention the risks to journalism in a country where the president threatens any group whose speech he doesn’t like.
As (i think) Parenti said, now is the time of monsters. Cool robot though. That, genuinely, is crazy impressive.
I mean in this instance, if you look at the thumbnail of the author and then follow his link, he looks not a day over 16.
Im middle-aged, anyone under 30 looks like a baby to me 😅 babies can be journalists as long as they’ve got ethics and a good editor
Seriously. How many ways are there to make an humanoid robot out of stainless steel and aluminium?
What clickbait. Apparently any vaguely capable humanoid robot is a “straight-up Terminator”?
If you can’t handle me at my Roy Baty you don’t deserve me at my Pris Stratton
That’s the most “Terminator” looking robot I’ve ever seen.
So far. Since Terminators are capable humanoid robots and the goal is to make capable humanoid robots each improvement is going to look more like a Terminator. And also like every other capable humanoid robot from other sci-fi as well, good bad or neutral.
The only reason to leap to “OMG it’s a Terminator!” Is to bait the clicks.
Well to be fair, they didn’t have to give it machine gun arms and red glowing eyes. But maybe that’s just me.
It looks the a Terminator “under the hood”. I doubt anyone was trying to sell a “living tissue over metal endoskeleton” kinda headline.
each improvement is going to look more like a Terminator.
Not necessary. Not wanted. Just a grift.
They meant that in terms of infiltration they’re becoming more humanoid at an exponential level
In a follow-up event to prove it was a robot, He Xiaopeng had its leg skin cut open in front of a live audience. The robot then walked off the stage.
That looks more like a Terminatrix
I’m not saying this because she’s a billionaire, and this is really nothing against her, her looks, or her music, but I never found Taylor Swift to be, like, sexy. She’s quite beautiful and very talented but she’s just not who comes to mind when I think of slinky sexiness.
I get you! She’s extraordinarily beautiful, and not just in a blonde hair/blue eyes kinda way. I have an admiration for any man or woman who works hard to maximize their appearance. My wife is like that. She won’t win any beauty pageants, but she is as attractive as it’s possible to be for her. It’s fucking hard work and Swift could do nothing to be any more attractive.
Turns out I like her music too! Kids listening to something, “That’s cool, who’s that?”
But sexy? Maybe she’s too perfect? I like a woman that’s “off” in some way. Maybe a big nose, wide-spaced eyes, pouchy mouth, gimme some imperfections that stand out.
She’s too doll-like.
She’s a bit stiff IMHO.
tbh, with those hips I might eventually join the robots
Hips don’t hallucinate.
This seems to be the really interesting part: “…the bot also contains the “first all-solid-state battery in the industry,” as opposed to the liquid electrolyte typically found in lithium-ion batteries. Solid-state batteries are considered the “holy grail” for electric vehicle development …”
Am I missing something, or did they just dress up a woman with a prosthetic leg to resemble an android, and remove the dressing around the prosthetic to “prove” she isn’t human?
If the robot is tough enough for production they should have no fear of stripping the clothes off with a box knife. The whole scene was still pretty impressive, especially compared to last week’s Russia bot! 🤦🏻♂️
But still, were I heading this project, I’d insist on toughness at this point in development. (Talking out my ass, looking to the end game, no idea where they’re at ATM.)
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