[sandworm101]

So? She could be the chief engineer, but in the video she is the model, the stand-in, the demonstration person. Call it sexist if you want, but it is standard marketing practice to use young women/girls in promotional vids. Where movement is involved, models with long hair are also preferred as it shows the motion, something that again tends towards young girls. Smaller people also make products seem larger. Where the product involves a seat (cars, air travel etc) a really tiny person makes things look much roomier and more comfortable. Where the action is recorded at a distance people with clear skin but darker lips and larger eyes are more expressive, again trending towards females. Where there is any sort of perceived physical danger you pick models that, rightly or wrongly, are perceived delicate. Use a 250lb Army grunt with massive muscles (of any sex) and viewers might think they also need to be tough to enjoy the product. So this vid is following standard marketing practices in selecting a very standard model.

My point still stands. What would rigging for several non-small people on this thing involve? Looking at the angles on those cables, a 10-fold increase in payload might need a 20 or 30-fold increase in cable strength ... adding weight ... needing stronger cables.

After watching it a couple times more, I'm also interested in how it would handle asymmetric loads. How much before it tips into a cats cradle of wire? Is there any feedback into the system to detect such situations?