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I really feel like people need to stop trying to make these sorts of robots look so "human-like". The effect of a mouthless bald doll head strapped on top of an iron man robot isn't exactly comforting, to me anyway. It starts to hit the uncanny valley a bit

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This looks like it was put together by Sid in his room.

That was exactly what I thought of too when I saw it, hahaha. If it wasn't terrifying enough already...

I feel like the funny part is that there are so many "robot" mask designs in pop culture that would look 1000x more comforting than a slightly psychotic looking robotic doll

That's exactly my idea. I would feel far more comforted being rescued by something like Chappie or The Iron Legion than something like the Sophia robot or this thing. Human-inspired over human imitation

Everything about this design feels wrong. Like they went out of their way to make it unappealing.

Maybe the wanted to create an https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy

A similar type of robot is key to the plot of the superbly quirky film 'Brian and Charles' [0] in which a nutty inventor build a robot that looks exactly a weird old-man's head stuck on top of a washing-machine shaped body.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_and_Charles

Under rated British comedy gold right there, layers and layers especially the illuminati references

Presumably they want to eventually put a human inside it, in which case having a humanoid robot to work off of wouldn't change the aero calculations and designs too much. The article talks about specific design considerations to avoid the exhaust gases.

Gravity Industries already has that sorted https://gravity.co/ . I was almost expecting this robot to just be a humanoid robot with one of those suits on

Looking at the 'hands' of this robot, it looks to be exactly that.

> Presumably they want to eventually put a human inside it [..]

I'm imagining a team just putting the organs of a human into the robot to save on space. Basically a brain plus whatever is absolutely necessary to run the brain.

Wasn't that Robocop 3?

I think they could make it a bit more professional looking like: https://imgur.com/a/vXED98B Like a friendly yet stern Butler of the Skies.

I would look at that and think "doll". Others look at it and think "human". People are weird.

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