Detroit: Androids face oppression! No one likes them! They are dehumanized!
Actual literal real people I know: This is my roomba. His name is Gilbert and sometimes I drop cheetos on the floor just so he has something to snac on.
Whenever I play this game all I can think about is that story where someone coddled their roomba during a thunderstorm because “it was scared”
ok but imagine a roomba that’s programmed to react positively when being scratched or petted
#or a roomba that’s programmed to recognize their owner and drive up to them for no other reason than to be petted
roomba company, please make this happen
I have a Neato Botvac that has an optical sensor to find its way around (Roombas just bump into things and derps off in a random direction) and yesterday it did its “dee-dummm” sad noise while under the couch, stopped what it was doing, and hummed over to me and stopped beside my chair, with its error message saying, “Please dust me off so I can see.” I wiped it off and sent it on its way, and it did its “doo doo do doooo!” of happiness and finished the living room.
It’s never done that before, but I like to think that I’ve gained its trust over the past few months, and it knows it can come to me for help.
This adorable little robot is designed to make sure its photosynthesising passenger is well taken care of. It moves towards brighter light if it needs, or hides in the shade to keep cool. When in the light, it rotates to make sure the plant gets plenty of light. It even likes to play with humans.
Oh, and apparently, it gets antsy when it’s thirsty.
The robot is actually an art project called “Sharing Human Technology with Plants” by a roboticist named Sun Tianqi. It’s made from a modified version of a Vincross HEXA robot, and in his own words, it’s purpose is “to explore the relationship between living beings and robots.”
I still maintain that this thing looks like something out of a Sci-Fi Horror NIGHTMARE and of course I need like ten
20 here,.
okay i wanted to know if its ‘eyes’ on its arm were needed for function or were the product of humans needing something to have a ‘face’ to better relate to it and
Jab loves robots 