Posted on 12/12/2018 3:12:44 PM PST by Krosan
State television praised the ‘modern’ tech despite photos revealing actor in costume
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.
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There were some interesting things that day....
Paid the guy anyways....just cuz the boys had so much fun nailing him.
In America we reversed the formula with Obama and put a low tech robot in a suit - his programming involved mostly grinding racial axes that weren’t even his.
No aircraft carrier, and now a man in a robot suit?
Ow.
To Earl Holliman: “Would sixty gallons be sufficient?”
...The Turk was in fact a mechanical illusion that allowed a human chess master hiding inside to operate the machine....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
Another one with a man in it? What are the chances?
People couldn’t figure out how the guy got in and out of the Robot Gort Costume (The Day the Earth Stood Still) because there was no obvious way to do it.
Gort’s Costume was made to look like it was solid metal, much like the Spaceship with no visible access point.
When the Director was asked about it he simply said that there were two Costumes, one with access in the front and the other with access in the back.
The original Gort is the coolest Movie Robot IMHO.
Is his name Cy Berman?
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