Somehow Russia Made An Even Worse Robot Than Elon Musk (allegedly)

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Whether he believes it aliases not, Elon Musk continues to show group his humanoid robot will change nan world, extremity poverty, forestall crime, and yet beryllium bigger than nan compartment phone. The only problem is, nan past clip we checked successful connected nan humanoid robot that will allegedly turn Tesla into a $5 trillion company, it did not look fresh for premier time. At all. The crypto bros who shilled NFTs arsenic nan adjacent large point whitethorn show you Elon's wholly sewage this full point figured out, but from what we've seen truthful far, his continued obsession pinch these robots is conscionable embarrassing.

But hey, it isn't each bad news for Elon. Other companies are moving connected humanoid robots of their own, and while that does mean he has to woody pinch competition, it does besides mean that if 1 of those different companies screws up, Tesla's Optimus robot mightiness not beryllium nan astir embarrassingly unspeakable humanoid robot connected Al Gore's internet. I mean, what if, say, a Russian institution held a motorboat arena for a caller humanoid robot, and it went truthful badly, it's fundamentally intolerable to constitute astir it without making astatine slightest 1 joke astir nan precocious rates of alcoholism successful Russia?

If thing for illustration that happened, that would beryllium terrible. And hilarious. As you tin spot successful nan video below, it was, successful fact, besides hilarious. 

Joke of nan time from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to trim nan position short. Their rushed effort to assistance nan prop only made things worse.

The institution successful mobility present appears to beryllium a Russian startup named AIdol (like Artificial Intelligence Doll, not Alabama Doll) that allegedly held its charismatic uncover arena earlier today. English-language sum of nan arena is almost nonexistent, but the Ukrainian National News did screen it, citing a Telegram station from nan independent Russian news outlet Astra, suggesting that nan video is so real. As nan video goes viral, though, nan startup's founders whitethorn extremity up wishing it had been fake. 

After all, this was expected to beryllium nan large reveal. The robot early was expected to beryllium here, and everyone successful nan room was astir to witnesser this humanoid robot locomotion for nan first time. They knew really acold on they were successful nan improvement process, they chose that date, and they moreover had nan Rocky taxable opus playing. It was expected to beryllium a triumph. And past nan robot comes retired looking for illustration thing Honda would person refused to show nan public backmost successful nan 1990s. 

Then, astatine astir nan 11-second mark, it gets moreover worse. It falls connected its face, forcing 2 group connected shape to scramble to prime it backmost up, while a 3rd struggles to resistance immoderate achromatic cloth crossed nan shape to support nan assemblage from seeing what's going on. Just a complete disaster and arguably worse than that clip Faraday Future revealed a rebadged Chinese minivan. How do you moreover retrieve from a merchandise uncover truthful bad, moreover Elon Musk is laughing astatine you?

Of course, it's wholly imaginable we're missing thing here, but for now, let's each conscionable constituent and laughter astatine nan bad Russian robot.