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

[hedgewizard@beige.party]

@benroyce

Still

At least they didn't paint it stygian black

[vwdasher@mymasto.com]

@benroyce a robot centaur with a chainsaw?

Fuck that.

[keydelk@fosstodon.org]

@benroyce who the fuck designed that atrocity!! They need serious mental help.

[cgudrian@social.tchncs.de]

@benroyce Stop gnawing your arm off. Look! I've got a chain saw!

[lcwander@toot.community]

@benroyce from the name it can be also satire, but at this point I am ready for anything.

"It's more dangerous than it looks"

[amro@todon.nl]

@benroyce This must be satyre...

[neuromancer@bonn.social]

@benroyce
Like the robot in Rogue One, voiced by Alan Tudyk: "Congratulations! You are being rescued. Please do not resist."
Would be funny if it wasn't real.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

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@mastodon.social]

@Hedgewizard

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@VWDasher oh come on man, sounds like the start of a great party! 🤪

[kanamauna@sauropods.win]

@benroyce

WHY THE FUCK DOES IT HAVE THAT HEAD? 𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐈𝐓 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄!

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@cgudrian

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@amro

[plantagolabs@mastodon.social]

@benroyce The safety features are just so bizarre. It can be equipped with extra large horns so it cannot go through standard doors, and the emergency stop is shooting at it with a gun.

This has to be made by a diabolical alliance between techbros and hillbillies.

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@benroyce Whatever it is, I like that you can stop it effectively by stabbing it in the chest, seems like a smart touch

[jmopp@masto.ai]

@benroyce I'm looking forward to realistic centaur costumes that have properly articulating legs

[cgudrian@social.tchncs.de]

@dharmadan "But…" – "There, there! … And there. … And there."
@benroyce

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@TeflonTrout

hello, mr. engineer?

why is that so important exactly!?

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@benroyce

Oh, y'know, just normal dystopia things

[fruchti@twoot.site]

@benroyce Wasn’t expecting the ‘stab here to stop the robot’ and ‘you are mostly safe from it indoors’ directly on the landing page