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Chinese company busted showing off humanoid robots that actually have humans inside (futurism.com)

submitted 2 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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During the World Robot Conference 2024 in Beijing from Aug 21 - Aug 25, the company Animatronics company EX-Robot (or EX Robots as reported by some news media) hired 2 women cosplayed as robots to spice up the exhibition.

Footage making the rounds on social media shows what appear to be astonishingly lifelike humanoid robots posing at the World Robot Conference in Beijing last week.

But instead of showing off the latest and greatest in humanoid robotics, two of the "robots" turned out to be human women cosplaying as futuristic gynoids, presumably hired by animatronics company Ex-Robots.

"Many people think these are all robots without realizing they’re actually two human beings cosplayed as robots among the animatronics," reporter Byron Wan tweeted.

While somewhat uncanny at first glimpse, the illusion was shattered once an image of one of the hired women having lunch at the event started circulating online. Even humanoid robot cosplayers have to eat, it turns out.

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[–] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I have to say after watching the videos, boo to the corpo for the weird exploitative lies, but kudos to the two women for staying in character! They legit put effort into moving like the real robots around them, and all while in what were probably uncomfortable costumes. I hope they get positive social media attention!

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

They could work in the movie industry.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Once again, humans were taking robot jobs. Robots won't stand for this sort of thing!

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Calm down Bender, have a beer and some Mom's brand oil.