Humanoid robot springs to life in ‘dystopian’ viral video: ‘Straight out of science fiction’
February 21, 2025
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as posted by the channelAn eerily realistic humanoid robot — purported to be the “world’s first bipedal, musculoskeletal android” — twitched to life in a viral clip, which viewers have slammed as “dystopian” and “terrifying.”
Created by Clone Robotics, the faceless “Protoclone” is manufactured with a body to look as lifelike as possible — muscles, tendons, joints and all.
In a video posted on X, which has scored over 32 million views, the Protoclone is suspended in the air as its limbs jerk and spasm, its arms moving at the elbows and legs bending at the knees. While the company celebrated its technological fete, users weren’t impressed.
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