A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (🤔) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaur
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@benroyce But does it have a build-in light?
https://www.moooi.com/eu/product/moooi-horse-lamp-black-9839
Moooi?
That's the company's name? Does it have a meaning?
Well Google is a real company
I'm not complaining!
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@benroyce «help with rescue & search after disasters» is a well-known euphemism for «we just built this robot to be cool as fuck»
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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
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If this is three-halves, I guess four-halves is just an eight-legged goat that folds upwards in the middle. -
@benroyce «help with rescue & search after disasters» is a well-known euphemism for «we just built this robot to be cool as fuck»
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@dzwiedziu the eyes and the color scheme are the same. This is from a Star Wars movie right?
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Moooi?
That's the company's name? Does it have a meaning?
Well Google is a real company
I'm not complaining!
@benroyce Mooi is Dutch for beautiful. Not sure where the third 'o' comes in.
I'm just glad it's an expensive horse, otherwise I somehow would have to find space in my not quite big enough for a life-size horse home.
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@dzwiedziu the eyes and the color scheme are the same. This is from a Star Wars movie right?
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Yes, more details: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/congratulations-you-are-being-rescued -
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If this is three-halves, I guess four-halves is just an eight-legged goat that folds upwards in the middle.@androcat you're 150% right
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@benroyce
Yes, more details: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/congratulations-you-are-being-rescued@dzwiedziu i swear this has something to do with this garage inventor's strange set of enthusiasms. it's too similar in two design elements
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@benroyce Mooi is Dutch for beautiful. Not sure where the third 'o' comes in.
I'm just glad it's an expensive horse, otherwise I somehow would have to find space in my not quite big enough for a life-size horse home.
Practicality has nothing to do with it. Buy 4! When visitor's ask, make a joke about the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Bask in their befuddlement
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@dzwiedziu i swear this has something to do with this garage inventor's strange set of enthusiasms. it's too similar in two design elements
@benroyce Oh… Oh dear…
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A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (
) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaurSo I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little
Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me
I don't think I'm being rescued
I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI
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@benroyce I would rather stay lost than be rescued by that demonic looking goofy ass... thing.
@macacator you can't refuse. you've chosen battle then
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@staringatclouds if this is 2nd iteration that implies existence of 3rd iteration
NO!
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@benroyce Whatever it is, I like that you can stop it effectively by stabbing it in the chest, seems like a smart touch
@TeflonTrout @benroyce I'm not pulling out my knife to stab the metal horse wielding a chainsaw in my face.
Makes the "shoot it in the saddle" approach seem a little saner, though.
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unintentional or intentional brilliant marketing
but then i wonder exactly what fucking market they are aiming for
@benroyce @fruchti I guessed the "this looks so cool OMFG I need one!!!" community, which will quickly become the "wait, it doesn't actually do anything I need and needs to be constantly taken apart and cleaned because dirt got into it through all those openings and it's broken 99% of the time so I took the horns off to get it through the door and now it's a conversation piece in my living room or rusting in my garage" community.
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@staringatclouds if this is 2nd iteration that implies existence of 3rd iteration
NO!
@benroyce 3rd iteration has 6 legs
4th has 8 etc...
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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.
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Practicality has nothing to do with it. Buy 4! When visitor's ask, make a joke about the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Bask in their befuddlement
@benroyce I think my joke would be three horses and one fancy horse and insisting they are all horses indeed.
https://www.qeeboo.com/en/products/giraffe-in-love-xl-indoor-design-marcantonio
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unintentional or intentional brilliant marketing
but then i wonder exactly what fucking market they are aiming for
@benroyce @fruchti
This "Three Halves" robot gave me a very strong hit of, "This is an art project with distinct Dadaist and between-the-2-World-Wars pacifist vibes," Ben.
Dystopian times birth dystopian art, in my opinion.
I, for one, think we're being punked very cleverly by someone with a sense of humor that aligns very nicely with my own -- right down to the Baphomet head.
Bong hits 4 quadruped robots with sinister heads.
