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    What clickbait. Apparently any vaguely capable humanoid robot is a “straight-up Terminator”?

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        So far. Since Terminators are capable humanoid robots and the goal is to make capable humanoid robots each improvement is going to look more like a Terminator. And also like every other capable humanoid robot from other sci-fi as well, good bad or neutral.

        The only reason to leap to “OMG it’s a Terminator!” Is to bait the clicks.

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          Well to be fair, they didn’t have to give it machine gun arms and red glowing eyes. But maybe that’s just me.

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          It looks the a Terminator “under the hood”. I doubt anyone was trying to sell a “living tissue over metal endoskeleton” kinda headline.

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      They meant that in terms of infiltration they’re becoming more humanoid at an exponential level

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    In a follow-up event to prove it was a robot, He Xiaopeng had its leg skin cut open in front of a live audience. The robot then walked off the stage.

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      Because humans will put tits on anything. I watched a movie about sentient cockroaches, and the girl cockroaches all had tits.

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      Because when humans see a robot with boobs, the comments turn into “hey this robot has tits”, and when they don’t, the comments turn into “humanity is going to be euthanised by the machines”.

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      I’d say “found the bot”, but even bots are familiar with why boobs appeal to human sensibilities.

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    “We’re at a point now where robots can move more sensually than Taylor Swift.”

    What?

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    I’m not saying this because she’s a billionaire, and this is really nothing against her, her looks, or her music, but I never found Taylor Swift to be, like, sexy. She’s quite beautiful and very talented but she’s just not who comes to mind when I think of slinky sexiness.

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      I get you! She’s extraordinarily beautiful, and not just in a blonde hair/blue eyes kinda way. I have an admiration for any man or woman who works hard to maximize their appearance. My wife is like that. She won’t win any beauty pageants, but she is as attractive as it’s possible to be for her. It’s fucking hard work and Swift could do nothing to be any more attractive.

      Turns out I like her music too! Kids listening to something, “That’s cool, who’s that?”

      But sexy? Maybe she’s too perfect? I like a woman that’s “off” in some way. Maybe a big nose, wide-spaced eyes, pouchy mouth, gimme some imperfections that stand out.

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    “We’ve now constructed the doomsday machine from the popular novel ‘Don’t build the doomsday machine’”

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    What is the endgame here? People are supposed to buy these? To do what?

    The took the fabric off a mechanical device to reveal it was a mechanical device. Disturbing?

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    “We’re at a point now where robots can move more sensually than Taylor Swift.”

    What a weird fucking tagline on an article that insinuates a robotic dystopian future.

    Although there are some weird horny undertones, so I guess it checks out. Still, weird article all around

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        Yes, Daleks are not robots, they’re squishy tentacle space nazis inside mobile battle casing pepperpots that they call War Machines. The Terminator T1 however looks vaguely like such a pepperpot if you squint and are Doctor Who brained.

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    This seems to be the really interesting part: “…the bot also contains the “first all-solid-state battery in the industry,” as opposed to the liquid electrolyte typically found in lithium-ion batteries. Solid-state batteries are considered the “holy grail” for electric vehicle development …”