The result is nice and cool. It is the level of modern journalism that is disturbing.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2025
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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?
"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."
What clickbait. Apparently any vaguely capable humanoid robot is a "straight-up Terminator"?
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.
It looks the a Terminator "under the hood". I doubt anyone was trying to sell a "living tissue over metal endoskeleton" kinda headline.
Well to be fair, they didn’t have to give it machine gun arms and red glowing eyes. But maybe that’s just me.
If you can't handle me at my Roy Baty you don't deserve me at my Pris Stratton
They meant that in terms of infiltration they're becoming more humanoid at an exponential level
Why does it have boobs though? Is that like extra space For batteries? Why not a bellybutton if we are Going for realism?
Because humans will put tits on anything. I watched a movie about sentient cockroaches, and the girl cockroaches all had tits.
to be fair to the addition of bazongas, those characters are more 'humans in cockroach costumes' than 'sentient cockroaches.'
Because when humans see a robot with boobs, the comments turn into "hey this robot has tits", and when they don't, the comments turn into "humanity is going to be euthanised by the machines".
I'd say "found the bot", but even bots are familiar with why boobs appeal to human sensibilities.
"We're at a point now where robots can move more sensually than Taylor Swift."
What?
Joe Wilkins clearly has a thing for robots.
That looks more like a Terminatrix
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.
So they skipped the Dalek phase, huh?
Wheeled robots have been the norm for decades, we didn't skip that.
Didn’t Daleks have little squishy aliens inside them?
Yes, Daleks are not robots, they're squishy tentacle space nazis inside mobile battle casing pepperpots that they call War Machines. The Terminator T1 however looks vaguely like such a pepperpot if you squint and are Doctor Who brained.
"We're at a point now where robots can move more sensually than Taylor Swift."
That's a low bar
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 a bit stiff IMHO.
What is the endgame here? People are supposed to buy these? To do what?
The took the fabric off a mechanical device to reveal it was a mechanical device. Disturbing?
I'd buy one if it would help fight off ice agents.
I read ice giants and thought I’d missed a headline today
To do what?
Chores and other stuff we don't want to/can't do. This has been the dream for decades now, so many old encyclopedias with "future tech" chapters show robots caring for people, sometimes as caregivers (for old people, or blind etc), sometimes as entertainers.
Robots will do everything slaves used to d without pay
Gen 1 Synth lookin' motherfucker.
I won't die to anything wearing crocs!!
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.)
tbh, with those hips I might eventually join the robots