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

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@xChaos @plantagolabs

Bespoke and befucked

[vwdasher@mymasto.com]

@benroyce I'm opting for the pay per view version thanks, from a distance!

[madagascar_sky@mastodon.social]

@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.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Madagascar_Sky

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

[salixsericea@mastodon.social]

@benroyce Totes real because changing a single letter in "satyress" gives you "satire ss", .

[samir@mastodon.functional.computer]

@benroyce I would be absolutely terrified if the statue I saw on a hike yesterday had a fucking chainsaw.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@salixsericea

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyress

[edgeofeurope@mastodon.social]

@benroyce Those horns are entirely impractical though. They'll get stuck in the plant life.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@samir

take that totem home

it's a charmed object: it successfully wards off mechanical centaurs

[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.