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by chrisbennet 3653 days ago
Watching it wipe out on banana peels cracked me up! Does that make me a bad person?
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Nope!

These robots are amazing in their realism of behavior that I find myself referring to them as creatures rather than robots.

Watching them get kicked makes me feel bad for them, just like I would for an animal, and watching them fall on a banana makes me laugh, just like I would if an animal or person did (so long as they weren't seriously injured, unless I didn't like them :P)

Quite a few parodies around, here's another amusing one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAmyZP-qbTE
it was weird. When I saw it fall I felt a spike of empathetic pain for it. My mirror neurons fired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron

I felt bad for it.

You can see the deep sadness in its googly eyes.