Posted on 12/13/2018 8:15:30 AM PST by Red Badger
Russia-24 praised 'Boris' for its dancing skills only for it to emerge the android was actually a man in a costume...
A robot hailed in Russia as the latest in cutting-edge technology has been unmasked – as a man in a suit.
The android – known as Boris – had been lauded on the state-owned broadcaster Russia-24 as a technological breakthrough with the ability to walk, talk and dance.
But photos later revealed there had been a person inside all along. Questions over authenticity
The revelation came after a number of unconvinced Russian journalists began to question the robot’s authenticity.
They are reported to have questioned the android’s lack of external sensors, how it was made so quickly and why the robot had made so many “unnecessary movements” when showing off its dancing skills.
They also noticed that a person would have fitted inside the “robot” perfectly…
It all started to fall apart when a photograph was posted on social media in which a person’s neck is clearly visible in a gap in the suit.
It then emerged ‘Boris’ was in actual fact a 250,000 rouble (£2,975) costume called Alyosha the Robot, made by a company called Show Robots. ‘An almost complete illusion’
On the website of the company behind the robot, it is described as being able to create “an almost complete illusion that you have a real robot”.
According to reports, a photograph published by MBKh Media, a news agency founded by Vladimir Putin’s opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky, appeared to show an actor wearing the suit ahead of the annual Proyektoria technology forum, where “Boris” was displayed.
MBKh Media insisted that the event’s organisers did not try to pass off the robot as real, despite it being described as such on state television.
Footage of the robot reportedly disappeared briefly from Russia-24’s YouTube channel on Wednesday morning but it came back again a short while later.
I’m shocked.
Don’t they know about C3po? He’s a man in a suit too! HOW can people be so gullible in 2018??
IRAN to follow soon with it’s own robot..?
They never noticed the BO
Potemkin robots? Who knew.
Vodka breath gave it away?
Awesom-O was a better design. SouthPark season 8, episode 5.
If Obama was president, and NASA tried the same sham, no MSM reporter would question it.
I submit that Russia has more free press than America. And that’s a sad thing.
Most Russians (or Ukrainians) I’ve met have a great sense of humor.
I thought he was a spider.
I would put some itching powder in his suit.................
Wait, what?
The old Soviet satire magazine Krokodil showed two robots with shovels digging away while an Intourist guide bragged about superior Russian cybernetics.
After the tour group left, the two `robots’ removed their heads and the two humans inside lit cigarettes & took a break.
A man in a robot suit? So it’s the anti-Al Gore.
Only sometimes! Radio controlled units were used too. I know, a friend had a prototype. I got to operate it! Lots of fun, he worked up to a block away, so he looked like he was independent. Tons of fun when we took him to Tinker AFB!!
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