A 'male' humanoid robot was unveiled in Saudi Arabia. It then inappropriately touched a female reporter.
A 'male' humanoid robot was unveiled in Saudi Arabia. It then inappropriately touched a female reporter.
Saudi robotics company QSS unveiled 'Muhammad the Humanoid Robot' last week, but video appears to show it inappropriately touching a female reporter.
The training data💀
Am woman. This did cause me to smirk & forcefully blow air from my nose.
The highest honour an internet stranger can bestow.
It can be horrific, terrifying and funny all at the same time.
Must be a slow news day.
The robot is just moving around, AI isn't remotely close to at the point where a physical robot can "grope" a person intentionally.
The fact the video is so short says a lot. I'd expect anyone who watched would just see that the robot moves around all the time, and the reporter wasn't supposed to stand so close to it.
This isn't news.
Honestly kinda edges onto racism territory. "Hurr hirr, Saudi robot, groped woman, it's cuz it was made in Saudi"
Ew.
It's not exactly newsworthy, but that a Saudi robot, from a country known for its bad treatment of women, touches a woman inappropriately, even if just by accident, reads like satire.
a country known for its bad treatment of women
Making assumptions about someone/something based off its country of origin sounds pretty xenophobic to me.
The robot didn't "grope" a woman, it moved its hand as an animitronic, and she was clearly standing right next to it during its animations.
The fact that was blatantly blown into "groping" abd the fact the article felt the need to repeat that it happened in Saudi repeatedly, over and over, should trip the xenophobia alarm.
Consider if it was an article about how an animitronic robot that moved and knocked a man's wallet out of his hand because he walked to close past it. I.agine if articles turned that into "Jewish made robot tries to steal man's wallet!" Unironically.
You'd probably look at that and go "yeah okay, that's pretty fucked up, whyd the do that?" Right?
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It's just a silly story.
Being Business Insider, and the fact it said "appeared to" I was sceptical
Watched the video in the article and ha ha ha aye he's an Uncle Gropey 😂
Fuckin hell you couldn't make it up
The "back off buddy" hand gesture she gives the robot is pretty cute.
The robotics firm said staff had "proactively informed all attendees, including reporters, to maintain a safe distance from the robot during its demonstration."
Because they knew the robot is a serial rapist
Sounds like victim blaming.
It totally is. The robot is just an innocent week old bot and that older woman had no business grooming/training it.
I mean... yeah?? I think.
Easy fix, get it to grope a man. They'll probably stone the bot then and there.
Not a bug, a feature.
yeah they literally outright said "it didn't deviate from expected behavior"
What a future to live in. Don’t suppose people could get a living wage? Right on, just make pervy AI powered robots instead that’ll fix the problems.
Still has more rights than a woman.
This is not news. The robot lifted it's hand and she was standing too close to the display. It barely qualifies as a robot anyway. It's not like it looked down and analyzed her butt. It's not that complicated.
It has wide field of view, no need to look down. It analyzed and decided to clap dat ass.
Sure seems that way. I don't personally do controls engineering. But I know enough I wouldn't doubt that's just pre-programmed motion to attempt it looking "alive".
So 1) Seems much more like animatronics. 2) It certainly doesn't have advanced enough proximity detection AI would need.
The creators even claim they told people to stay back. That's not advanced at all. Even simple production line bots have collision detection.
How dare you use logic on the internet shame on you
Thanks for saving me a read. I was expecting some basic object identification and retrieval AI getting confused by a pattern and groping to grab the "object"
They called the robot Muhammad, they're lucky there weren't any children in the room.
God, that would've been ebic
Sounds like it's ready to run the country already.
These things are getting so life like!
Not in appearance yet, but you gotta admit the robot understood the assignment.
That robot was honoring the traditions set forth by The Near East's greatest potentates https://www.amazon.com/Love-Slave-Bertrice-Small/dp/0449002136
Missed opportunity to call it Muhummanoid
This is deliciously horrible.
Whamen respected
These things are getting so life like!
Not in appearance yet, but you gotta admit the robot understood the assignment.
So it was programmed to inappropriately touch a female reporter. AI isn't sophisticated enough to make those kinds of decisions autonomously. What country are we discussing?
