Videoclipul fabricii de umanoizi din China se cufundă înapoi în valea neobișnuită

Joi, 09 Mai 2024 18:58

Still frame from a video shot inside a humanoid robot factory in China

A 20-second video from inside a Chinese humanoid robot factory is causing some consternation today around social media. It shows a range of highly realistic-looking, partially skinned humanoids under construction.

The video, uploaded by user 'meimei4515,' is uncredited, but shows several moving androids with human-like hair and skin – in stark contrast to most of the general-purpose humanoids we'd normally cover, which are designed to look like robots, rather than trying to fool anyone.

Here, there are rows of pretty cyborg-ladies, disembodied heads on stands, fully human-like presenter types wearing shirts and pants, and a surreal tree of humanoid arms, flexing and twirling their white-fingered hands in concert. It looks for all the world like a grittier version of Westworld's backstage workshop.

Whoever took the video says something in Chinese at the beginning, which translates roughly to "before that, the employees had already started mass production."

So what are we actually looking at here? As it turns out, the arm-tree is the giveaway. Chinese company ExRobots has shown it before in expo displays. According to the company's (translated) website, it builds "efficient and friendly smart guide services for government agencies, medical institutions and service retail industries."

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=kMy-whvLW0I&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fnewatlas.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo

** Source: ExRobots