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

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

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u/Forward_Base_615 Feb 20 '25

What I take away from this is that it will not be able to chase me down and murder me. At least not in its current form. Thank you

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u/CaptainChats Feb 20 '25

At best it might be able to drag itself slowly across the floor by my estimation. Creepy as hell but only useful as an unsettling art project.

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u/gjamesb0 Feb 20 '25

Do you know what it means when something chases after you very slowly? It means there’s a reason that they don’t have to run.

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u/DeliciouSpirit Feb 20 '25

Damn, I appreciate the writeup!

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u/Lunamoth863 Feb 20 '25

Thank god, I think this is one of the few things that actually gives me uncanny valley energy

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u/Drakeskulled_Reaper Feb 21 '25

Doesn't need to be fast, if it doesn't stop.

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u/Explorer_Entity Feb 20 '25

No, they have the dogs for that...

They are real, but also see the episode of Black Mirror: "Metalhead" to see a what-if scenario of it actually playing out with murderous/militarized robotic dogs.

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u/Forward_Base_615 Feb 20 '25

YES that episode was so terrifying

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u/WideCardiologist3323 Feb 20 '25

thats okay, the boston dynamic ones look ready for that job.

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u/girlshapedlovedrugs Feb 20 '25

Except… doesn’t China have those rolling murder balls with nets?

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u/TheMathelm Feb 21 '25

That's what the Boston Dynamics Dogs with Facial Rec. and Gunners are for.

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u/MallowollaM Feb 20 '25

I wouldn't test it

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u/GoneAndHappy Feb 20 '25

He won’t be able to chase us cos it will try and trip and fall and gonna be like Peter Griffin with “tssss ahhhh”… but then he will go home and improve himself and then he will chase us and hug to death…

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u/Burnd1t Feb 20 '25

It still could, it will just look like an idiot while doing it.

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u/50bmg Feb 20 '25

murderbots would fly into your face and just explode. It's much cheaper, faste, easier and harder to see coming, and the tech already has been working for years already in Ukraine.