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Lance Ulanoff

Watch this – the latest humanoid robots are both unnervingly sassy and comfortingly error-prone

Chinese robot XPeng IRON and Russian robot Idol.

I've been covering robots for over 20 years and can tell you with near 100% certainty that there is no reason for home humanoid robots to have breasts, let alone saunter down a runway like a catwalk model.

Things are getting a little weird or weirder than usual in the burgeoning humanoid robot space. First, we had Chinese EV manufacturer XPeng unveil IRON, a new oddly feminized humanoid robot that looked and moved in such a convincing manner that the company was forced to partially strip the bot and cut away the foamy flesh to reveal the metal and motor workings underneath.

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