Viral Humanoid Robot Raises Concerns Over Lifelike Design
- Clone Robotics has created a humanoid robot named Protoclone, claimed to be the world's first bipedal musculoskeletal android.
- The robot features over 500 sensors and 1,000 artificial muscle fibers, enabling lifelike movements and aiming to perform tasks like laundry and vacuuming.
- Social media reactions have included both fascination and skepticism, with comments comparing the robot to 'sleep paralysis demons.'
- A video shows Protoclone twitching while hanging from the ceiling, which has elicited mixed reactions on social media.
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A “robot” that looks like a human being and may bleed to death
Shafaq News/“ Clone Robotics”, a Polish startup, has unveiled “Protoclone”, a faceless skeletal muscle robot with amazingly realistic movements. This prototype is still under development and was designed to simulate the natural walking of humans using artificial muscles covered with a transparent skin-like coating. The robot is six feet long and has more than 500 sensors and 1,000 artificial muscle fibers, making it able to perform complex movem…
Humanoid robot springs to life in ‘dystopian’ viral video: ‘Straight out of science fiction’
An eerily realistic humanoid robot — claiming to be the "world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android" — twitched to life in a viral clip, which viewers slammed as "dystopian" and "terrifying." In a video posted on X, which has scored over 32 million views, the Protoclone is suspended in the air as its limbs jerk and spasm, its arms moving at the elbows and legs bending at the knees. While the company celebrated its technological fete, users w…
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