{"id":5396,"date":"2018-12-12T21:51:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/robot-turns-out-to-be-man-in-suit\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T21:51:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:51:13","slug":"robot-turns-out-to-be-man-in-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/robot-turns-out-to-be-man-in-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot turns out to be man in suit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Man in a robot suit\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/5F87\/production\/_104755442_robotman.gif\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">MBK Media<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    The &#8220;robot&#8221; turned out to be a man inside a suit<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A robot on show at a Russian state-sponsored event has turned out to be a man dressed in a costume.<\/p>\n<p>Robot Boris featured on Russian TV and was apparently able to walk, talk and dance.<\/p>\n<p>But soon after its appearance journalists began to question the bot&#8217;s authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>In a picture published afterwards on social media, the neck of a person was clearly visible.<\/p>\n<p>The robot is in fact a 250,000 rouble (\u00a32,975) costume called Alyosha the Robot, made by a company called Show Robots.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-46399507\" class=\"story-body__link\">Robot dons gown in virtual graduation ceremony<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-northern-ireland-46348287\/robot-surgeon-helps-northern-ireland-cancer-patients\" class=\"story-body__link\">&#8216;Robot surgeon&#8217; helps Northern Ireland cancer patients<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Show Robots<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    The robot suit creates illlusion of a real robot, say makers<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While the organisers of the Proyektoria technology forum &#8211; which was aimed at youngsters &#8211; had not claimed the robot was real, the TV coverage on Russia-24 suggested it was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tjournal.ru\/tech\/81940-rossiya-24-rasskazala-o-samom-sovremennom-robote-na-forume-putina-eto-okazalsya-chelovek-v-kostyume-robota\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">Russian website TJournal raised concerns <\/a>about the robot asking a series of questions:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">why did the robot feature no sensors?<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">how did Russian scientists get the robot made so quickly, with no papers published about it beforehand?<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">why there has been no internet coverage of such an advanced robot?<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">why did robot make so many unnecessary movements during its dance?<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">why did it look like a man would fit perfectly inside it?<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">why offer a pre-recording of its voice rather than do it live?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xn--90azabhpc2b8a.xn--p1ai\/costumes\/6\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">On the website of the firm behind the Alyosha robot costume<\/a> the product is described as being able to create &#8220;an almost complete illusion that you have a real robot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-46538126\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright MBK Media Image caption The &#8220;robot&#8221; turned out to be a man inside a suit A robot on show at a Russian state-sponsored event has turned out to be a man dressed in a costume. 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