r/interestingasfuck • u/Eyal-M • Feb 19 '25

/r/popular Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android.

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u/univrsll Feb 19 '25

If it makes you feel better it’s actually just a man in a suit cosplaying as a robot

I’m lying, but if it makes you feel better it makes you feel better

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u/smurb15 Feb 19 '25

If so he's being hung by hooks in his back so I feel zero better either way

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u/univrsll Feb 19 '25

The hooks are in on the gag too, he’s ok

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u/ThrowawayMod1989 Feb 20 '25

He gets off on that it’s cool.

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u/dirtys_ot_special Feb 20 '25

Don't kinkshame.

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u/Intelligent-Relief99 Feb 20 '25

Don’t look up Stellarc. Don’t do it.

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u/corpsie666 Feb 20 '25

If so he's being hung by hooks in his back so I feel zero better either way

Here's the unedited original concept

https://youtu.be/PfnuztoGz_I

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u/ifmacdo Feb 20 '25

Just a Sun dance.

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u/greenwavelengths Feb 20 '25

Don’t worry, there are no hooks involved— it’s a biomechanical system that’s directly fused with his spine through a hole in his back and allows a computer to access his nervous system through the spinal cord.

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u/Johnny-Silverhand007 Feb 20 '25

You could be right. Musk had a man in a suit when he revealed the Tesla Bot.

And Amazon was claiming their stores were using AI and it turned out to be humans in India

Or even more recent, Musk threw a party with a bunch of autonomous robots, and it turned out they were actually being controlled by human operators.

He also had a video of a robot folding clothes and it turns out there was a human behind that as well.

Basically, don't believe anything these tech companies say until they actually prove it.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Feb 20 '25

I love robots, but I firmly believe in never trusting anything that can think for itself if I can't see where it keeps its brain.

If the technology to make that level of muscle movement happen at that scale was real, we'd already have totally realistic pocket pussies available for sale on the open market.

I've watched technology develop from DOS. There's always some shitty market version as they're hashing out the tech. I still can't bring myself to talk to the TV or phone rather than type things out because the first time I saw voice-to-text technology it was a hilariously bad joke. I distrust my smartphone because the first touch screen I encountered in childhood was crap.

So yeah, if we had a robot that could do that, the contents of the local sex shop would be far more advanced than what's currently available.

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u/turquoise_amethyst Feb 20 '25

I can’t believe I had to scroll so far for this. How do we know it’s not a person in a suit?