I have to say after watching the videos, boo to the corpo for the weird exploitative lies, but kudos to the two women for staying in character! They legit put effort into moving like the real robots around them, and all while in what were probably uncomfortable costumes. I hope they get positive social media attention!
They could work in the movie industry.
Once again, humans were taking robot jobs. Robots won't stand for this sort of thing!
Calm down Bender, have a beer and some Mom's brand oil.
Wait a moment, did anyone actually think those were robots? Did anyone claim they were actual robots? I saw the videos going around and people were generally just impressed at the makeup and costume work.
Replies in the twitter link make me laugh though.
@VicBeeSee: Full on idiotic post, the company didn't pretend they were robots.
@Byron_Wan: It did… it didn’t tell others that those were human beings.
This either sounds like someone trying to make an issue out of nothing, or someone who got momentarily tricked and is embarrassed about it.
It's in the article:
Why the company chose to hire human cosplayers for last week's World Robot Conference remains unclear. Were they hired as "booth babes," an outdated and sexist form of promotion? Or were they purposefully there to trick attendees into thinking they were robots?
Given the reception of the videos on social media, it's possible it's a mix of both.
Asian countries are still going all in on "booth babes", so that's probably it.
I mean it still works for getting attention, but it's not exactly respectable and there are some people who really don't like them.
So nobody actually claimed they were robots. This article is just sensationalist clickbait garbage for people who really want to see a chinese company get "BUSTED!" for something. Twitter replies are full of racism.
@PatheticGroundThing It really helps if you read the entire article before posting.
So, you could say everyone is copying Elon Musk
They look like some teenager were too eager with the slider during character creation.
Are the actors voluntarily signing up to reenact their fantasies from Van Schalk's comics? (N.S.F.W.)
(N.S.F.W.)
And paywalled.
Did the people there actually believe they were robots? Impressive acting of course but you can see they're costumes in the video and I imagine it'd be more obvious in person
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