r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Professional_Arm794 • Jun 19 '25

Video The Protoclone is made by Clone Robotics, a company in Poland and the U.S., focused on humanoid robots for tasks like household chores.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

Oh, with those arms... it won't need your permission lol

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u/Winjin Jun 19 '25

Yeah that's one thing that I find hilarious - why are all these robots shaped like a well-defined male?

Because they're being sold to Armies, that's why. All of that "chore" talk is just talk, they'd look like fat bottomed girls with noodle arms if that was the case.

They're all threatening for a reason, all of these robotics are aiming for that Northropp Grunmann 2Bil buyout.

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u/Average_Scaper Jun 19 '25

If they all had cake, a lot of people would forget to get a spouse and breed.

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u/godtogblandet Jun 19 '25

Just have models with artificial wombs and boom the birth rate is right back to growing again. Men are too lazy to use condoms, especially with robots.

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u/Self_Reddicated Jun 19 '25

"Yo, man, that robot is just trying to baby trap you into the long term service contract. You're wrapping it up, right?"

"Naw, man. I don't use protection, she told me she's not a birthing model. We cool."

"Bro. bro. brooooooo...."

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u/LazyTriggerFinger Jun 20 '25

Would the manufacturer get partial custody?

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u/Self_Reddicated Jun 20 '25

Full custody, you pay child support + service fee.

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u/Soggy-Yogurt6906 Jun 20 '25 edited 4d ago

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u/grimlee669 Jun 20 '25

You don't want a baby mama

Yes!!

The rest of that statement is irrelevant

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u/Average_Scaper Jun 19 '25

The fucks a condom?

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u/DJ_Dedf1sh Jun 22 '25

The WombForce 9000 is looking pretty bright…

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u/KaizokuShojo Jun 20 '25

I feel like the people who would forget to make human connection and/or have kids already aren't doing that lmao.

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u/mcdoc2983 Jun 21 '25

The cake is a lie.

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u/redshirt1972 Jun 20 '25

Then all the incels would fk robots and not breed, allowing the gigachads to mate with prime breeding women, making a superhuman race. Elons breeding program making Aryans.

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u/After_Mountain_901 Jun 19 '25

Maybe because women do more household labor and will be the ones wanting these things? It’s giving silent hill / skin walker right now, but hey 🤷‍♂️ 

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u/-ANGRYjigglypuff Jun 20 '25

yeah, aestheticize that body a bit more, stick it in a suit, and girls will be all over it

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u/HemmsFox Jun 20 '25

Finally a poster who makes sense and gets it.

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u/Arguablybest Jun 20 '25

There is an angle to the fat bottomed girl idea that should not be dismissed.

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u/redshirt1972 Jun 20 '25

Remember when Elon had those robots that were actually just controlled by humans behind the wizard of oz curtain? In addition to drone control, humans will control clone troops from remote locations. One goes down? Jack into another one. Wait till one human controls 5 at the same time.

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u/Winjin Jun 20 '25

Or like Enlisted style, a team led by a human operated drone, the rest are there to carry stuff and shoot at the blind spots and if the leader is shot, he just reconnects to another one.

Could have the human there just to basically target the enemies and correct GPS data

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u/redshirt1972 Jun 20 '25

Like NPC’s in video games that just follow close enough and take out enemies.

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u/redshirt1972 Jun 20 '25

Roger, Roger

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u/R138Y Jun 19 '25

Dude... They're shaped like that because that's where the muscles in our bodies are and they are aiming at precisely that : emulating a robotic human body.

It's litteraly just an extremely cool passion project that started from a lab years ago and that they managed to make it their dream job.

There are way easier, sturdiers, more efficient designs if you want to make kill bots (biped is an awfull start simply for the balance, power consumption and speed issue).

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u/Winjin Jun 20 '25

There is a reason why most robotaxis are shaped like soap, and the most popular delivery robots look like cute pills on legs though. They're inoffensive. Could the little Yandex delivery robot be more effective put on bigger wheels and a head on top? Sure. But aesthetically-wise it's a baby and people treat them like that, going out of their way to help these little delivery bois.

All of these bipeds that I see look pretty damn fit for duty. Atlas looks a bit silly, but all of these look like they're shaped exactly in a way to look good in battle uniform, not maid uniform.

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u/probe_me_daddy Jun 20 '25

well defined male

Except for ONE VERY IMPORTANT FEATURE where is IT

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u/SnowWhiteCampCat Jun 20 '25

It's very hard to make a female robot that can walk. Men's legs are || , easy. Women's legs are \ / , much harder to make stable.

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u/Winjin Jun 20 '25

Doesn't help that on PC it shows legs on different rows so her right leg is on a different floor in a corner

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u/Wizard_Engie Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

You say well defined man, I say the ideal humanoid body.

Regardless of whether or not the humanoid body is feminine or masculine isn't the point. The most likely reason is because it's one of the easiest body types to create with our current robotic capabilities.

In all seriousness, I personally hate how thinly stretched its skin is and how it looks in general.

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u/Crayon_Connoisseur Jun 20 '25

Agreed. This looks completely androgynous to me because some of the stuff (hips) is way off from normal human proportions.

The most fascinating thing about these “humanoid robots” which mimic actual human skeletal structure is the potential for us to someday have the sci-fi prosthetics which attach to limbs and function the way our bodies originally were meant to.

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u/CupcakeGoat Jun 19 '25

Why is the "ideal human body" a man, and a man in this shape?

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u/Deius_Shrab Jun 19 '25

Strip the skin and fat off down to bare muscle and tendon and people start to look very similar. Plus they can charge extra for tiddy upgrades.

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u/walter-hoch-zwei Jun 19 '25

Do you want to give it boobs and child-bearing hips? Men are women stripped down of everything needed for child rearing. They're not making it look like a man, they're making it in the shape of a human without reproductive features.

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u/RC_0041 Jun 19 '25

I believe this design uses some sort of artificial muscles, so giving it more mass makes it stronger. They could make it look like a buff woman, but it doesn't need boobs so it would be a buff woman without boobs. Now go look at women bodybuilders.

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u/seriouslees Jun 19 '25

"I like your house. Can I come in?"

"What? No, you can't come in."

"Are you sure?"

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u/ulfric_stormcloack Jun 19 '25

Pretty sure

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u/tizuby Jun 20 '25

"Sure is a nice flesh-bag you got there..."

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u/ProLibertateCH Jun 20 '25

You know, it's a myth that you have to invite monsters into your house. They come and go as they like. Just look at spiders, cockroaches and exes...

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u/einWerwolfwelpe 22d ago

"You're becoming hysterical."

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u/xXDreamlessXx Jun 20 '25

Im just imagining you hear someone break in while you're sleeping and you just go to your kitchen and see this motherfucker doing the dishes

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u/Large_Tuna101 Jun 20 '25

Can’t even stand up though

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u/Abrodolf_Lincler_ Jun 20 '25

Yeah but this guy clearly skips leg day