{"id":189094,"date":"2024-05-10T15:27:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/chinese-humanoid-factory-video-plunges-back-into-the-uncanny-valley"},"modified":"2024-05-10T15:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:27:37","slug":"chinese-humanoid-factory-video-plunges-back-into-the-uncanny-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/chinese-humanoid-factory-video-plunges-back-into-the-uncanny-valley","title":{"rendered":"Chinese humanoid factory video plunges back into the uncanny valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kMy-whvLW0I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A 20-second video from inside a Chinese humanoid robot factory is causing some consternation today around social media. It shows a range of highly realistic-looking, partially skinned humanoids under construction.<\/p>\n<p>The video, uploaded by user \u2018meimei4515,\u2019 is uncredited, but shows several moving androids with human-like hair and skin \u2013 in stark contrast to most of the general-purpose humanoids we\u2019d normally cover, which are designed to look like robots, rather than trying to fool anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Here, there are rows of pretty cyborg-ladies, disembodied heads on stands, fully human-like presenter types wearing shirts and pants, and a surreal tree of humanoid arms, flexing and twirling their white-fingered hands in concert. It looks for all the world like a grittier version of Westworld\u2019s backstage workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-second video from inside a Chinese humanoid robot factory is causing some consternation today around social media. It shows a range of highly realistic-looking, partially skinned humanoids under construction. The video, uploaded by user \u2018meimei4515,\u2019 is uncredited, but shows several moving androids with human-like hair and skin \u2013 in stark contrast to most of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}