XatolosElon Musk accused of copying designs by I, Robot director
sepielon doesn't have an original thought
At least he steals his ideas from good sci-fi.
Wonder who he pays to summarize them for him.
Probably grok, another reference to classic scifi he doesn’t understand
He’s a stranger in a strange land
hungprocessfrom shitty movies extremely loosely based on good sci-fi
ISOmorphUsing a 2 seater with limited storage space to taxi people around is pretty original. Not good, but original.
Even BMW has come out with a more original car design for an automated vehicle that has the seats facing each other and a table in the middle for a more communal experience. It also had a screen instead of a front window, because obviously if the car’s driving itself you don’t need to be able to see outside.
There are so many reasons to dunk on Elon, but this isn’t one of them. Generic looking humanoid robots isn’t “ripping off” I, Robot. It’s literally the most common depiction of futuristic robots around.
This just screams of low-hanging Musk-bait, where journalists will write anything negative about him knowing that those who have hate-boners for the guy will eat up whatever crap they shit out, even if it doesn’t make sense. It’s like going “Elon Musk ate cereal for breakfast! What a fucking loser!”
If you’re building a robot then the humanoid shape is a fairly good shape to use because the world is already designed for things of that shape. Doors, corridors, and staircases all assume a bipedal body of about 6 ft high. So inevitably robots are going to look humanoid.
If the robot is designed to work underwater then it probably isn’t going to look humanoid it’ll probably look like a fish but I don’t think the fish can sue.