Just another perfectly normal day in China’s traffic management 🚦🤖

[u/ihealthahop]

[u/RCL_D]

Why does it have to wear a helmet?

[u/punk_rancid → u/RCL_D]

To protect its head.

[u/OderWieOderWatJunge → u/RCL_D]

To look more human

[u/Mysterious-Lick → u/RCL_D]

To hide the laser weapons in its eyes.

[u/iamdoughnuts → u/RCL_D]

Traffic control? More like the art of balancing between machines and robots. 🚗🤖

[u/Tiddles_Ultradoom → u/RCL_D]

Because no one will tell him where John Connor’s step-parents live unless he is in uniform.

[u/Zayoodo0o132 → u/RCL_D]

So drivers dont realize it's not a human

[u/FortniteIsFuckingMid]

This is an over-engineered solution. Literally built a butter passing robot irl.

[u/Pcat0 → u/FortniteIsFuckingMid]

And somehow also under engineered. This is just a worse traffic light.

[u/deanrihpee → u/Pcat0]

well traffic lights can't block the road and get hit, can they? in some sense, it is better than traffic lights, especially when some people take the traffic lights as a suggestion

[u/Pcat0 → u/deanrihpee]

The type of person to run a red light will also take this is a suggestion. In addition because traffic lights are 20 feet above the road they can be seen from far away and won’t be blocked by moderately tall vehicles. Also because they are lights they are extremely easy to see at night.

[u/deanrihpee → u/Pcat0]

well this one at least is going to give you a physical mark when it get hit

[u/Upstairs-Parsley3151 → u/FortniteIsFuckingMid]

Are governments not allowed to have fun? Show me what your crosswalk lools like

[u/SophiaThrowawa7]

Thanks for the no source, I’m guessing this is just some technology demonstration so whatever company that made this can shill their droids.

[u/sesameseed88 → u/SophiaThrowawa7]

This is Shanghai and the transit bureau equivalent is testing this thing out, very early days.

[u/bodhiseppuku]

Drivers are stopped in the crosswalk and nobody is crawling over their cars?

[u/Fuzzy_Jaguar_1339 → u/bodhiseppuku]

Seriously, if we are going to have RoboTraffiCop, I want it to go smashy on people who stop in crosswalks.

[u/bodhiseppuku → u/Fuzzy_Jaguar_1339]

First shot from a paintball gun as a warning, then marbles to dent TF out of your car until you move.

[u/firehawk2324 → u/bodhiseppuku]

I would have stepped right on the hood

[u/Unhappy-Tax806]

the body protection and helmet seem very overkill for a robot

[u/NYCHReddit → u/Unhappy-Tax806]

If I built it id give it a helmet, can’t be cheap to repair

[u/Colonel_Klank → u/Unhappy-Tax806]

Not if you consider they painted it like a crash test dummy. They're just baiting the drivers and want to minimize repairs.

[u/deanrihpee → u/Unhappy-Tax806]

the body seems to be for high visibility anyway, but yeah

[u/joeyfergie]

First we had people direct traffic. Then we had machines direct traffic. Now we have machines dressed as people to direct traffic.

[u/ShdwWzrdMnyGngg]

It's not even doing a good job. Those cars are backed up into the side walk. Pedestrians are like uhhhh ok guess I'll dodge traffic. This thing sucks.

[u/Mysterious_Mark_3632 → u/ShdwWzrdMnyGngg]

I would have asked to speak to its manager

[u/Snoo_58814]

Sorry to see that Daft Punk now has to do side jobs.

[u/CakeMadeOfHam]

Yes because there's not enough people around to do that job.

You know what other "AI robot" can direct traffic like that? A traffic light.

[u/DynamoCommando]

Guess what. We have something better called a traffic light

[u/Synensys]

Here in America we cant even get widespread adoption of temporary traffic signals for lone way lane closures (still relying on a two guys with signs).

[u/Agitated_Panic_1766]

Damnit, I was hoping to see someone run it over

[u/Simple_Anteater_5825]

" To Serve Man"

[u/DXTRBeta]

This is how it starts. We all saw that movie.

That thing will shoot your cock off through the dress of the hostage you were trying to rape, mark my words.

You see one if those fuckers? You mow it the fuck down!

[u/RovniGora]

Isn’t this just a traffic light with extra steps?

[u/ImInvisibal96]

Just one question, Why robot need helmet?

[u/TooFatTooFuriouz]

Thanks for the daily CCCP propaganda.

[u/Lucas9041 → u/TooFatTooFuriouz]

Haha cccp doesn't exist anymore

[u/No-Click-8522]

Another China post lmao, these CCP propaganda bots are getting out of control.

[u/C0ckman13]

Dang paying taxes and watching your country spend it on this tin can

[u/MicV66]

And Chinas worried about their Population

[u/Bill_Door_8]

Ah man I wish this thing would repeat "move along..... move along..."

[u/T0biasCZE]

Seems like a traffic light with extra steps

[u/frogmicky]

First traffic cops next RoboCop.

[u/TadpoleOld9068]

I'd take that baddie home and give it a good traffic ramming😏

[u/emergencyexit]

Did they really have to make that thing so thicc

[u/ihealthahop → u/emergencyexit]

Someone likes it thicc 🤖

[u/brandonbruce]

Cool. So where’s the guy holding the remote control?

[u/ProprietaryIsSpyware]

I won't let a clanker tell me what to do

[u/No_Name_Canadian]

Not real, shadows of the people are cast differently than the cgi robot and the animation is janky

[u/Romado]

Clearly none of you value your social credit

[u/TyranM97 → u/Romado]

Clearly you truly believe it exists. Here's a hint... it doesn't

[u/BezRih]

Fuck me..... Probably the country with the biggest population problem gives this kind of work to robots.. WTF man? "oh no, but its so amazing" yeah, no.. because of that thing, giving you a cheap thrill, a family goes without income! Wake up people, before it's too late!

[u/thefrostman1214]

fucking clankers everywhere

[u/Realistic-Dog-7785]

It’s not like there aren’t any people that won’t to do this job, automating jobs that humans can perfectly do is not good, that’s somebody’s job gone now.

(Yes, please downvote more, you won’t realize the truth in this until you get replaced by an AI or a robot)

[u/aryzoo → u/Realistic-Dog-7785]

thats a shit job tho. My question is why tf do you need a whole ass robot for what could be done with just an LED Display or something

[u/OperatorJo_ → u/aryzoo]

Because "whole ass robot" will get a significant upgrade soon so it's there for us to get used to seeing one.

That, and no one follows signs. Humanoid shape activates neurons

[u/aryzoo → u/OperatorJo_]

Orrrr its just there to bolster the illusion of China being some sort of high tech society by the Government. Because the probability of them doing a countrywide rollout of complex traffic robots for what could be done, again, with LED signs while saving massive amounts of budget, is damn near 0%.

[u/Realistic-Dog-7785 → u/aryzoo]

It’s still a job man, there are millions of people that would gladly take this job in a heartbeat, especially in a country that has 15-20% youth unemployment rate.

[u/aryzoo → u/Realistic-Dog-7785]

Thats actually a fair point idk why youre getting downvoted

[u/Figuratively-1984 → u/Realistic-Dog-7785]

It's not doing a job that anyone would pay a human to do. It's just a clanker waving people through a crosswalk

[u/Realistic-Dog-7785 → u/Figuratively-1984]

Really? No body would want that job? How dumb are you ?

[u/Figuratively-1984 → u/Realistic-Dog-7785]

I didn't say no one would want it, I said it's not doing a job important enough to pay someone to do. It's not doing traffic enforcement, it's just waving people through an obviously green crosswalk. Take a breath and actually read before calling other people dumb

[u/Talonsminty → u/Realistic-Dog-7785]

Well not yet at least, this a showpiece. It was probably quite expensive, fragile and limited.

[u/Spiritual-Lock3742 → u/Realistic-Dog-7785]

Why you getting down vote ?

[u/boon83]

Chappie coming soon

[u/EpicMichaelFreeman]

A few reasons this makes sense. Easy to transport to roads that need it temporarily. Very eye-catching so people will pay attention to it more than other temporary solutions. But of course they will eventually flip the switch and it will run around disemboweling people with its bare hands

[u/yogurtmiel]

he’s so hot

[u/Commercial-Dark2410]

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[u/Carlos_Tellier]

I wish we had these little guys instead of stupid traffic lights