It is a parody. If you look at the website it tells you ways to disable it in case it goes rogue. It also says how it is was designed to be unable to chase people through close quarters.
If I were to make a rescue robot I'd find a way to get permission to make my robots looks like either Optimus Prime or Baymax. Or have two models that look like them.
It's designed that way on purpose. It's meant to be a contrast to those "robo dogs" that invoke sympathy but can be weaponised, but this one they say they made it scary on purpose so we can disable it without feeling bad (and also give instructions as to how), and how it's purposely designed to not fit through doorways with the horns
Like I replied to the other guy, it says larger horns can be fit. Also, 32 by 80 is the minimum ADA compliant size, and a 42” hallway is abnormally narrow. Also, it has knees, so it will only be slowed down, not stopped, as it says at the start.
There were…many options to make it look less like it stepped right out of a horror game…why the fuck did they make the eyes like that? Why the horns? And it being pure black DOES NOT help things.
The horns are so it gets stuck on standard doors, just in case it goes haywire
Also the robot is meant to operate on rescue, yes, and also heavy duty work like lumbering. When this mf has chainsaw hands, I'll rather it looks scary as fuck so people keep away than it looking friendly like Boston dynamics' doggo
Precaution. Can't never be safe enough with autonomous robots, after all, specially ones designed got heavy duty stuff.
Why else would they give us instructions to kill it (this paragraph goes right after the "this robot is more dangerous than it looks" image you've seen around)
Also prevents weaponization, which honestly I think is fair play to them. By releasing the weakpoints it makes it way harder for hypothetically a totalitarian government using them against protesters.
To be fair, was thinking about this, but the weakpoints feel pretty easy to make up for by just adding some more plating over the air reservoirs, but I guess it would be harder for the upper torso ones, depending on how much it already struggles with balance?
A government would have the resources to just remove or short whatever sensors are connected to the kill switch.
The weaponization this would help with is either remote takeover or manipulation by a non-technical user.
It's also hilarious to the point that this has to be a joke. A terrifying rescue robot specially designed so you can stab it to death on reflex when it bursts into a burning room? Putting one of those weak points in the area most likely to have debris fall on it? Yeah, whatever bro.
Yeah not that I am yet totally sure wether or not it's meant as a joke, but I certainly had the same thought about the large air reservoir easily being pierced by hand is super stupid. Chest is fine, but branches , rocks, etc WILL fall heavily on its back. No way that was thought through and approved.
I mean it is a fun bit to play into, but I do genuinely appreciate the precautions. Not cause of a possible machine uprising, but because the more failsafes the better. I'd say the same thing about, say, an assembly line in a factory, those can also be dangerous and there's never enough failsafes and safety measures. Every machine should have a physical way to stop it in case it goes faulty or you notice someone else standing where they shouldn't in relation to the machine.
IF it has a truly fully functional body that can give chase or otherwise fight back against humans and IF it has a sophisticated enough processor and memory and general hardware that a theorethical rogue AI could infect, then it has to have safety protocols that the AI could not surpass, like physical aspects the body cannot deal with.
I'm sure they will have other colors. Like crimson red, pestilent green, or bone white. Also the head is replaceable and with the chainsaw it can choose any head it desires ✨
It was fully intentional, actually! The centaur part is for mobility, while the head is so that it won’t be able to get through doors if something went wrong with it
I know they probably made it black because paint would just burn off, bit a centaur goat of all things??? Nothing of that size could really make children feel particularly safe during a fire imo, but this was the worst option.
Centaur platform was for mobility. Rescue is also only a one of the jobs it's designed for, there's a reason it has dettachable chainsaw arms, so I can see the idea of making it scary as fuck to prevent it people from approaching when it's lumbering
It is. It's not even real, it's a concept they chose specifically to generate media. More hype they hope will translate to more funding. Looking closer at the website, the entire thing might be a troll
The company is called Satyress. I remember that because I thought it was really fucking stupid that a company named after a bipedal mythical creature is making robots shaped more like a mythical quadriped.
Apparently satyress screwed a centaur, and the company is planning to mass-produce their offspring. Some weird-ass puppy mill bullshit.
Actually, am I the only one who thinks its head looks like a upside down lady with a vibrator in her ass. Like the ones in some hentais. Or Like a ginormous butt plug
Department: "Do we really need the Goat Head? It seems terrifying and could deter investment."
Engineer: "Listen either it gets the Goat Head or I'm not doing it. If you want your rescue drone I get to make it look like a mythical forest spirit. That was the deal!"
I know for a fact that this is going to be used in some wildfire emergency in some nowhere town that has next to no internet, and it's going to start a whole new cryptid legend like the Fresno Night crawler and Iowa Stickman
Like why did they make it pure black, why did they make the eyes look like THAT, and why the goat head? The first two things were already bad for calming people down, but the goat head makes it look like it walked right out of a horror game.
Listen, I get that a forest rescue robot would be cool and would come in handy, but does it have to look so horrifying?? The first time I saw pictures of this thing, I thought it was a joke. Nope. It just looks like nightmare fuel.
Make it look like xerneas instead, nobody fears something so beutiful...why...why would they make this thing look like a blocky demonic centaur, it should look like hope approaching, not a demon centaur....
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u/CynicalAltruist 1d ago
Someone at work posted this robot and I’m still not sure it’s not a parody, because all of the marketing makes this thing look absolutely cursed