I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West

Re:I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West by spike021 on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:53PM (#50400866)

their humanoid robots really creep me out. I've been to a few conferences for work over the past few months and they usually have a booth and then have someone walking them around by remote control.

The conference venues have concrete flooring, so I just suddenly hear loud rhythmic thumping as these things stomp around a corner.

After the initial "huh that's a cool robot thing" thought, it really started giving me the heebeejeebees.

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Re:I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West by MattDamonSpace on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:04PM (#50400953)

I’ve felt the same way about mannequins for years

Uncanny Valley is an evolutionary advantage, I’ve surmised

Awkward to think about why tho

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Re:I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West by dvh on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:48AM (#50402809)

Interesting theory. It implies existence of non-human humanoids in our distant evolutionary past where recognizing them would give us survival advantage.

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Re:I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West by lifeisstillgood on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:53AM (#50402835)

There would have been plenty of those - we keep finding near ancestors, neanderthalis, the hobbit one. Some say the Monkey King from chinese legend is a folk tale of a close species

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Re:I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West by mitthrowaway2 on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:49PM (#50401446)

Also because they make them all faceless and sleek and alien, like a human shaped iPhone. If they instead looked like little Gundams I think they'd be cool.

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