Impressive robot praised by Russia state television revealed to be a man in a costume

“It’s entirely possible one of these [students] could dedicate himself to robotics,”

…or a career as a con artist!

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In Russia, robot wears you!

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I sat and watched that entire video. It was that amusing. I never played these games, but I think if I had, it would have all been just for these moments. What a perfect writing and voice acting combo.

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It looks like they had the guy study early ASIMO movies, and had him try to copy the stepping/balancing gait.

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I, for one, am glad that gospodin Potemkin is alive and well.

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giphy

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I think it’s pretty cool that they have a cyborg operated just by a mans dismembered head or is it an android inside a cyborg suit?

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Well, the state media seemed to have believed it was an actual robot because it was being presented that way…

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Didn’t it work at Club-Robo?

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Is all translation problem! We said Boris was “работник” (robotnik), that is, how you say?, “worker”!

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The first time someone on bbs introduced this video into my life, I had a period of few weeks where I couldn’t start my day without watching it. If they could bottle and sell whatever weird psychologcal magicks this video commands, imagine how many elections they could manipulate…

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Except that it wasn’t.

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Rob didn’t seem to be terribly enamored.

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Russia is perhaps the only country where nothing I see or hear, and no one I meet, ever seems to contradict the broad stereotype. Which in Russia’s case is that it’s just really fucking sad (but in quite a mean way that’s hard work to sympathise with).

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3cpo%20r2

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Impressive robot praised by Russia state television revealed to be a man in a costume

The irony is so strong, it hurts.

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Я твой слуга
Я твой работник

So it’s TRUE!!! We ARE the robots!

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