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Watch: Chinese company's new humanoid robot moves so smoothly, they had to cut it open to prove a person wasn't hiding inside (www.livescience.com)
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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All of them? Hardly. This very demo is a counterexample.

I suspect it's more that lots of people don't want these to be actual robots.

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Most people don't understand these demos. So instead of saying that they say misleading instead.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tend to = all of them to you?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because all of these robot tech demos tend to be very misleading

Emphasis added.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social -1 points 1 week ago

Yes, of the set that is all robot tech demos to a crowd, the vast majority are misleading. They tend to be misleading