I am begging you not to watch this ghostly white 'faceless, anatomically accurate' robot dangling from wires and silently thrashing its sinewy limbs
Why did you open this article? I told you not to. I begged you not to. Close it now. Go away. Forget you ever saw it. Trust me, you might think you want to watch this pale white «anatomically accurate» robot with no face dangling from wires while it silently thrashes its sinewy limbs around, but you really don't.
This is your last chance to not watch the embedded video below.
It looks like it's trying to escape the cables that are suspending it a few feet above the ground. Or maybe it's just become aware it exists and is thrashing around in confusion and fear. Whatever it wants—freedom, revenge, a mate, a face, a ticket to Westworld—I suggest we instead destroy it with a flamethrower, perhaps out of mercy, perhaps out of self-preservation.
The robot is made by a company called Clone, a name that is already disturbing before you see the robot itself, which is a «musculoskeletal» android that looks roughly like a human being with limbs, muscles, fingers, toes, but no face. I mean, in a way, thank god it has no face. If it had a face it'd have a mouth, and if it had a mouth it might scream whilst pointing one of its twitching, chalky-white fingers at us.
Clone's android (they call it an android, not a robot) looks different from most of the other robots being developed these days because it's not a bunch of cold metal parts but instead has a skeleton covered with a «muscular system.» Just like people. But far more terrifying.
«The Clone’s muscular system animates the skeleton thanks to Clone’s revolutionary artificial muscle technology Myofiber pioneered by Clone in 2021, which actuates natural animal skeletons by attaching each musculotendon unit to the anatomically accurate points on the bones,» the Clone website warns us. Its skeleton is just that: a skeleton (hopefully synthetic) containing 206 bones, just like people have, at least until the Clone android escapes the lab and starts ripping our real bones out because it wants to be «more human.»
Along with no
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