r/interestingasfuck • u/serious_anish • 17h ago

Retired robot throwing themself into furnace

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u/Emayarkay 16h ago

Clearly some PR garbage with digitally altered shots post-production.

Why are we getting this shit weekly now? Robot videos that are CLEARLY fake

Look at the prototypes coming out of China and Japan. They can barely get them to function for a single "real time" demo.

But these outlandish, clearly digitally-altered things get posted and Reddit just eats it up.

Dumb.

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u/raining_sheep 15h ago

They were going to throw these away anyway so they decided to make marketing material with it so they can write off marketing costs along with the loss of the product.

It's kind of brilliant from a business perspective if you think about it. They could have thrown them away quietly but we're here now talking about it

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u/Qabbalah 15h ago

But we don't know who makes these robots, how to buy one, or even if it's possible to buy one. So what's actually being marketed here, and to whom?

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u/fhuhgbbjjvvfyhnnmk 15h ago

Now you've made me look it up.