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

[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.

[mkoek@mastodon.nl]

@benroyce I was at a conference a few weeks back where they had cute little robot dogs walking around and even those freaked me out. Not ready for this future…

[salixsericea@mastodon.social]

@benroyce I appreciate his engineering skills, and we can not expect every engineer to have the design chops of da Vinci. At the end of the day, this iron horsy girl isn't more ludicrous than, say, Elmo's two legged storm trooper robots.

[salixsericea@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @edsullivan Modify the head so it can graze!

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@lcwander @benroyce satire or satyr?

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@benroyce @fruchti
In my opinion, any douchbags who like this "Three Halves" rescue centaur are being trolled or punked or hoist with their own petard or whatever the current expression is.