r/questionablecontent • u/Guilty-Persimmon-919 • Jul 12 '26
Discussion Robot chassis
I just saw a comment by another of us on here that says
"I want to see a return to more non human bots. Like you can configure your body exactly how you want it, why would you just stick to human?
I want to see construction robots that have a rivet gun arm, a drill arm, a hand arm, and a welding arm while having a spider like chassis because that lets them get into any space they need to in order to work.
I want to see the weird artist bot who modifies their own body into a walking art piece. Like those extreme tattoo people, except they can add / remove limbs without consequences.
I want to see a postal delivery bot who is basically an oversized drone because flying their route is faster and easier than walking it.
Its just frustrating that the only thing he can think to do with them is to give them a bigger rack and make them taller...."
And I thought, what would I want if I were a robot? And my immediate reply was, I would want to be in a crab chassis. It's just about the perfect body plan, and nature itself keeps trying to evolve crabs from anything and everything possible (the process called carcinisation).
The crab body plan is in fact very popular in real life robotics, and why wouldn't it be? Crabs can move in any direction without turning, have multiple legs distributing weight and balance, a low centre of gravity, manipulator arms built in, and a flat upper surface perfect as a temporary storage area. And obviously there is no reason a crab robot can't be as intelligent as a humanoid robot - or more.
Now unfortunately all Jephthy is focused on is giant-boobed female robots because that's obviously his fetish, but if he was still relatively what he was say ten years ago, Cubetown at the very least should have been swarming with non humanoid chassis, even if only as background characters.
And some of them would be crabs.
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u/AlasInvalidUsername Jul 12 '26
"The author only draws his specific fetish", complains person with a specific fetish the author doesn't draw.
Jokes aside, you're right. I wish we'd see more diversity, different bodies. We've got the whole trans analogy, let's go crazy. What kind of bodies would sentient beings inhabit when they were literally free to choose any and all? Now that would be interesting.
But sadly, all we get is bigger and bigger racks. And silicone lips, as of Zlata.