'Hi-tech robot' at Russia forum turns out to be man in suit | Wo..
A “hi-tech robot” shown on Russian state television has turned out to be a man in a suit.
Russia-24 praised the ersatz android during coverage of a youth forum dedicated to robotics, boasting that “Robot Boris has already learned to dance and he’s not that bad”.
But sharp-eyed bloggers were dubious. The Russian website TJournal listed questions about the robot’s performance: Where were Boris’s external sensors? Why did the robot make so many “unnecessary movements” while dancing?
And why did the robot look like a person would fit perfectly inside of it?
Later, photographs of the “robot” posted on social media showed the very visible neckline of the person in the suit.
Boris turned out to be an “Alyosha the Robot” costume made by a company called Show Robots.
You'd think with it being russia and all they could have at the VERY least found him one of these-
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/236944/ab9ce633-075d-458f-bf95-119755bb1496/image.png
Well thats one of the most Russian headlines ive seen since they got caught spraypainting the grass in Soichi
Just watch, Boston Dynamics is going to release a video of their own killbots robots doing Fortnite dances because of this
I sure hope nobody fell for this lol
Pfft, what a faker. Real robot coming through:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/200679/d5c375b8-c6d4-4069-bd14-633892d2d87d/processed-wm.jpg
I think its also sort of ironic the video of them showing off the fake robot has the russian cosmonauts fixing a hole in their soyuz capsule that was very likely caused by someone else trying to hide something.
Did... they think no one would notice it's just a dude doing a robot voice?
Guys read the article, its not that this was meant to look real while being fake its that the news report misinterpreted it.
Damn, they didn't engineer a robot, but an entire human? They really are high tech.
