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

[elbeetoots@mastodon.nl]

@AubreyDeLosDestinos @benroyce You can sit on it and hold its horns like you're riding a motorcycle.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@ElBeeToots @AubreyDeLosDestinos

you try first, i'll watch

[benaveling@mastodon.ie]

Or if not exactly hands, for they are certainly not hands in any form that a human would recognise as being hands, but they are still appendages that serve a similar function, for the strange creatures that control them.

@xChaos @plantagolabs @benroyce

[epistomai@mastodon.social]

@benroyce I saw it three days ago, and thought it was the most heavy metal prop like the gigantic spider in the entrance of Hellfest on France

[florapis@toot.wales]

@benroyce it has a sheeps head! Nope, I'd hide

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@benroyce @fruchti
I concur, Ben.
And even anti-dystopian art can be serious and tongue-in-cheek at the same time.

[oyu_fka@mastodon.social]

@VWDasher @benroyce No, it's perfectly safe...as long as you have a gun or knife to shoot/stab it - apparently that will stop it in it's tracks, lol!

[earwigplanet@mastodon.social]

@benroyce That's an enemy from Doom.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@earwigplanet

yup

a vassago

id software released new official material for the original game, two years ago!

old guy here, i played through the new levels

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Oyu_Fka @VWDasher 🥴

[elbosso@mastodon.social]

@benroyce this has to be a meek try at satire/sarcasm. It *has* to...

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Guillotine_Jones @fruchti

i admire him

not for the dystopian or frightening quality of the project, it does turn many off

i admire him for committing so heavily to a vision, whatever the vision

how many of us have passing visions, we amuse ourselves with it and then... nothing. it passes to oblivion

not this guy

and no investors

so the techbro accusations are invalid

he's just a quirky dude with a quirky vision, working hard on it. it's not his fault douchebags might like it

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@elbosso

we've been discussing it

we've rejected the notion it's fake for the sake of media drama

he has no investors and has been working in obscurity on it for 2 years

so it is authentic

but authentic what?

is he an absurdist artist? or is he a sincere dude with a sincere vision, and the rest of us find his sincere vision a little off?

that's the question

[semantikast@openbiblio.social]

@benroyce Well, that's the other half of what @pluralistic is talking about.

[markc568@beige.party]

@benroyce @Guillotine_Jones @fruchti Kind of like this guy’s project to build a suit to withstand a bear attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Grizzly_(film)

[florapis@toot.wales]

@plantagolabs let's hope it doesn't learn that turning its head will solve the extra large horn problem @benroyce

[kelvin0mql@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @earwigplanet

Fond (& yet also unpleasant) memories from decades ago learning what Doom was.

And yes, now I'm going to see if I can get it on SteamDeck.

[crow@cville.online]

@benroyce @Guillotine_Jones @fruchti The look of the thing really makes me think it’s a piece of artwork, not a mechanism. Too smooth, too graceful looking. Compare to the legs on any iRobot device and they look aesthetically pleasing in comparison.

[willi@bifrost.wurzerfamily.net]

@benroyce I'm 100% sure it will be used for "crowd control" once the riots start.

[crow@cville.online]

@benroyce @Guillotine_Jones @fruchti “and no investors.”

The whole “designed to be easy to kill” really sinks this in. No one in tech will invest in a robot designed to be easily disabled.