A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (🤔) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaur
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@benroyce This is clearly a PR stunt to get people talking about their company. These are professionally taken photographs and they knew what it would look like. Don't talk about them, that was their intention. Fucking silicon valley.
yes the idea you can give exposure to things that shouldn't get exposure is a real concern
but come on! this is so insane!
we deserve to laugh
plus he's had the website up for 2 years and got only 30 hits a day, only then going viral
he has no investors
sometimes quirky is just quirky, not artificially manipulated quirk
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It's a joke right? Is it even real? Is it just faked images or it doesn't really work?:
https://www.kcra.com/article/centaur-style-robot-satyress-auburn-three-halves/73324206
Hmmm
It seems to be an earnest guy hard at work on a sincere garage project
You could say he gets points for, uh, diabolical marketing
But I tend to think it's an overexposed reveal of one dude's rather personal, honest, and quirky enthusiasms that went unintentionally viral
@benroyce Totes real because changing a single letter in "satyress" gives you "satire ss",
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A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (
) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaurSo I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little
Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me
I don't think I'm being rescued
I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI
@benroyce I would be absolutely terrified if the statue I saw on a hike yesterday had a fucking chainsaw.
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@benroyce Totes real because changing a single letter in "satyress" gives you "satire ss",
.he's been at it for two years. no investors
that's one long con then
he articulates plausible reasons for the design choices (even the horns: he doesn't want it going indoors, he wants it to get stuck in doors)
"satyress" does sound like satire but it's a real word: it's a woman satyr
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It's a joke right? Is it even real? Is it just faked images or it doesn't really work?:
https://www.kcra.com/article/centaur-style-robot-satyress-auburn-three-halves/73324206
Hmmm
It seems to be an earnest guy hard at work on a sincere garage project
You could say he gets points for, uh, diabolical marketing
But I tend to think it's an overexposed reveal of one dude's rather personal, honest, and quirky enthusiasms that went unintentionally viral
@benroyce Those horns are entirely impractical though. They'll get stuck in the plant life.
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@benroyce I would be absolutely terrified if the statue I saw on a hike yesterday had a fucking chainsaw.
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we're VERY far from cute with this centaur!
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@benroyce Those horns are entirely impractical though. They'll get stuck in the plant life.
apparently it's a conscious design decision to prevent it from going indoors
but yes: not exactly a well-thought out design decision
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@benroyce a robot centaur with a chainsaw?
Fuck that.
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A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (
) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaurSo I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little
Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me
I don't think I'm being rescued
I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI
LOL
Do they come in pink? How much do they pay to be used?
Not a real startup surely?
Never seen such useless nonsense if real...
Difficult to tell these days...Fun to read their page though. Many thanks.
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LOL
Do they come in pink? How much do they pay to be used?
Not a real startup surely?
Never seen such useless nonsense if real...
Difficult to tell these days...Fun to read their page though. Many thanks.
read the news link in the followup post
he has no investors and has been at it in obscurity for 2 years
some quirk is manufactured but i tend to believe this is really just one sincerely earnest odd dude
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it's so unnecessary and yet... so perfect. perfectly horror movie
btw you can't kill it with fire. he had search and rescue in the woods during a fire in mind when designing it
Everything has its limits.I am fully prepared to sacrifice an old-growth forest to contain and melt that demonic device.
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Everything has its limits.I am fully prepared to sacrifice an old-growth forest to contain and melt that demonic device.
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A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (
) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaurSo I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little
Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me
I don't think I'm being rescued
I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI
@benroyce Somebody's wet dream...
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@benroyce Somebody's wet dream...
@SamanthaJaneSmith yeah i would say it's just a work obsession but it has overtones of another kind of obsession
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A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (
) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaurSo I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little
Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me
I don't think I'm being rescued
I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI
@benroyce «help with rescue & search after disasters» is a well-known euphemism for «we just built this robot to be cool as fuck»
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A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (
) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaurSo I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little
Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me
I don't think I'm being rescued
I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI
@benroyce let me bring pop corns.
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A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (
) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaurSo I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little
Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me
I don't think I'm being rescued
I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI
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A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (
) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaurSo I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little
Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me
I don't think I'm being rescued
I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI
@benroyce But does it have a build-in light?
https://www.moooi.com/eu/product/moooi-horse-lamp-black-9839
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A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (
) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaurSo I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little
Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me
I don't think I'm being rescued
I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI
The basic centaur shape makes sense. Four legs for stability combined with an upright posture for visibility. It's the facial features that are creepy.
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