Creepy-Cute Robots

IMAO summed it up when they linked this with “Can’t Decide Whether to Hug It and Squeeze It and Call It George, or Kill It With Fire“.

As for me, every time I see one of these things I immediately want one that can handle a canoe portage. Maybe it can hunt landmines, save people from rockslides, and cure cancer but I don’t care. I want something I can hurl into the mud from my canoe that will pick up said canoe (loaded) and walk it from lake to lake. (Or maybe carry a 50# backpack for “robot assisted backpacking”?) That way I’ll be playing in the wilderness until I’m 100 years old (or dead).

Also there’s definitely overlap in the cute little machine verses skeletal dog/spider of death categories. The uncanny valley is really a thing.

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11 Responses to Creepy-Cute Robots

  1. Southern Man says:

    Looks like we’re ready to port that software over to the ED-209. Let’s put it on those Bishop-class ‘droids, too.

  2. Educated Savage says:

    Its the spindly legs that make it look a bit creepy. And forget canoes. You’d make a fortune selling upscaled versions of those to any hunter that’s shot something that weighs more than he has and then realized he’s got to drag it out.

    • AdaptiveCurmudgeon says:

      Oh man, imagine a scaled up version of robospider crawling through the forest with a dead elk on it. I’m gonna have nightmares.

      • Mark Matis says:

        You want a WORSE nightmare? Imagine one of your squirrel buddies taking over such an abomination, having it shoot you with your own rifle, and then pack your corpse out to the highway and dump it on the centerline thereof.

        If Julie saw it there as she was driving down the highway, I wonder if she would swerve to avoid hitting it???
        }:-]

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      I am. I have more or less Jack Squat in the line of professional grade training and it shows. Good editors are so rare that I had to hire my dog for the job.

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