Chinese carmaker Chery using DeepSeek-driven humanoid robots as showroom sales staff Chinese carmaker Chery has started using its own humanoid robots as sales staff in its showrooms. Chery established a robotics division in mid-2024 and has since shown off a humanoid robot it calls AIMOGA – an acronym that stands for Artificial Intelligence with Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm. AIMOGA can walk, understand …
but... well... Barbiebots... nah, I'm good.
If they don't have SMGs in their, ehm, rack (like Iszi fantasiezed about in a Sunday Supplement episode) it's just... vaguely girly shaped for no reason other than just to lure in the fat sweaty nerds. I'm not saying they don't do that successfully (form follows function, et c.), I'm just doubting the neccessity. It's again that, as described in Coupling, all technical progress was made by males to look at females butts, be they real or in this case made of metal and plastics.
Make them more Dalek shaped! That's what we really want! Not Cylons with boobs.
Let's not forget the DeepSeek part...
"Oh, you don't want to buy one of our cars? Are you quite sure? Do you mind if I ask, is that because you don't understand how great they are, maybe I can take you through it again? Or is it simply because you're not in a financial position to do so right now? The fact that you made the effort to come over here and look at our stand must mean you have some interest, right? If you like, we can discuss your life choices together with a view to exploring possibilities you may not have considered, and we might discover that you can after all put yourself in a position to purchase..."
"Look, I don't drive, okay?"
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. May I ask, have you ever learned to drive before and is it something you've ever considered taking up? It's really not as daunting as it looks, and our cars make it even easier with their super duper XYZ features..."
"I'm medically unfit to drive."
"Oh, what a pity. Never mind. One day our AI will be able to drive you around, but that's not quite ready yet. In the meantime, although you yourself are not currently in a position to be a driver, perhaps you can still take away a good impression of our cars and mention them in conversations with friends and family, or if you write any blog posts or speak with any journalists. I can help you to remember the main points and I'm sure you make a great little ambassador for our great company. To begin with..."
"Look, I was just curious about the robot, okay?"
"Of course! Your curiosity is quite understandable. Did you know, .... (5000 words)"
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Humans have made the world suitable for humans that walk and are about 160cms tall and a certain width, with arms and hands at a certain height and so on, and human spaces have steps and sills that wheels don't handle well, so walking seems obvious. So a vaguely human shaped robot makes sense.
The comments section here suggest that some people see this robot as sexualised. Does that make the designer the perv, or the observer? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, now isn't it?
Ok, it is what it is... but some of the decisions that got it this way are sensible.
I'm surprised they didn't take the opportunity to name their salesperson fembot the Chery 2000.
Sounds like they are catching up though
"In the year 2017, the United States has fragmented into post-apocalyptic wastelands with a few civilized areas. An ongoing economic crisis has led to the recycling of aging 20th-century mechanical and technological equipment."
Only about 10 years out if the orange wotsit keeps having "ideas" ....
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... for the same reason I don't want to interact with wild animals (or with many humans, for that matter): they are unpredictable.
If I shake hands with a humanoid robot, chances are it will crush my hand, and a marketeer will exclaim, "Oh ... it never did that in testing! You must be a non-standard human."
my first reaction is "would you buy a car from a blond?", of course if my blond niece recommended it i'd think seriously about it as she's worked for Goldman sax, Bloomberg, google, YouTube and Facebook at different times and graduated from Cornell so anything but a cliche. did get in trouble for knocking her tooth out when she was a kid. gentle underhand toss of a softball that wasn't caught.
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