"But the company may have flown a little too close to the Sun. During a similar tech demo at a mall in Shenzhen, China, over the weekend, the robot once again ambled across a marbled floor in front of an eager crowd - only to suddenly start twisting its back in an unnatural way before falling over and faceplanting with an audible thud."
"Footage circulating online shows someone break Iron's fall. It eventually took three individuals to drag the 154-pound, five-foot-eight humanoid robot away from the prying eyes of the curious crowd. Some audience members can be heard chuckling to themselves as the robot is carried away. Many netizens joked that it was the ultimate proof that Xpeng's robot is not, in fact, a human in a costume, as some suspected when its human-like gait was first revealed."
""It reminds me of how all toddlers learn to walk," he wrote in the post, as quoted by the SCMP. "After a fall, they will stand firm; the next step is to begin running, and to keep running." The company was clearly rattled by all of the negative press coverage. During the next day of Xpeng's marketing campaign, the robot was strapped to a frame, per the newspaper."
Chinese automotive company Xpeng unveiled a Terminator-like humanoid robot named Iron that previously demonstrated a lifelike catwalk gait. During a mall tech demo in Shenzhen the robot twisted its back, fell forward and faceplanted, producing an audible thud. Bystanders and online footage showed individuals breaking its fall and three people dragging the 154-pound, five-foot-eight machine away, while some audience members chuckled. Netizens mocked the incident as proof the robot was not a human in costume. CEO He Xiaopeng compared the mishap to toddlers learning to walk. The company later strapped the robot to a frame during subsequent demonstrations.
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