A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (🤔) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaur

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@darkpixel

we're VERY far from cute with this centaur!

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@edgeofeurope

apparently it's a conscious design decision to prevent it from going indoors

but yes: not exactly a well-thought out design decision

[spanghero@ioc.exchange]

@VWDasher @benroyce I’ve seen the film. It doesn’t end well for the humans.
As a bonus to the tech bros, I’m never sleeping again in case that thing turns up in my town.

[lobster@ieji.de]

@benroyce

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.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@lobster

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

[kanamauna@sauropods.win]

@benroyce

Everything has its limits.I am fully prepared to sacrifice an old-growth forest to contain and melt that demonic device.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@KanaMauna

[samanthajanesmith@lgbtqia.space]

@benroyce Somebody's wet dream...

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@SamanthaJaneSmith yeah i would say it's just a work obsession but it has overtones of another kind of obsession

[mo@mastodon.ml]

@benroyce «help with rescue & search after disasters» is a well-known euphemism for «we just built this robot to be cool as fuck»

https://xkcd.com/2128/

[beastfellow@mastodon.social]

@benroyce let me bring pop corns.

[feral_3d@mastodon.social]

@benroyce

[thisislieven@c.im]

@benroyce But does it have a build-in light?

https://www.moooi.com/eu/product/moooi-horse-lamp-black-9839

[riggbeck@mastodon.social]

@benroyce

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.

[samir@mastodon.functional.computer]

@benroyce I am fairly certain it’s designed to slice open anyone who touches it.

[chrisp@cyberplace.social]

@benroyce Oh deer!

[chrisp@cyberplace.social]

@benroyce That thing is 100% going to be on the battlefield in a year. "The Department of Forestry and Definitely Not War would like to order 500 of them. Can they hold other things like flare guns? What about really big, multi barrel flare guns? How fast can they hunt down...trees?"

[5cifigirl@starbase80.wtf]

@benroyce

This is like something out of a horror movie!

[aubreydelosdestinos@101010.pl]

@benroyce They really did themselves a disservice with the looks of it. This should be slapped with all the firefight department logos. And get rid of the damn horns. Other than that, it might actually be a pretty cool robot. Provided it works.

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@benroyce

WTF… straight from a dystopian dream…