Clone Robotics just brought the very essence of your worst nightmares to life in gleaming, astonishing, graphic detail.
The Polish startup posted a video on X of Protoclone, a faceless, anatomically accurate synthetic human hanging from strings in the ceiling.
“Protoclone, the world’s first bipedal, musculoskeletal android,” Clone Robotics introduced in the video that has now been seen by more than 33 million people on the platform. It has over “200 degrees of freedom, over 1,000 Myofibers, and 500 sensors.” It has synthetic organ systems. You can “stab it with a fork and it will bleed out.”
The video shows the robot twitching, and there’s ominous music playing in the background. It is like they specifically created the video to look like a scene in a horror film — and that’s pretty much the take the internet responded with.
No matter your personal thoughts about the evolution of robotics — be them problematic, life-altering, boring, terrifying, or an exploration of the new frontier — it is clear that this specific video perhaps wasn’t intended to lull us into a sense of calm.
