The “robots”, one man and one woman, presented themselves as advanced machines to visitors, but high-definition videos shot at the recent event reveal their obvious humanity through acne scars, blinking, breathing and unnatural robotic movements.
In one social media clip, the woman robot, who introduces itself as ‘Miss Data’, tells a visitor that it lives in “blockchain space” and that, together with its male counterpart, it is “a collection of data that works together in a shared data code.”
According to the Iranian website Zoomit, when confronted about the questionable robots, Hossein Afshin, a senior official in Iran for Science and Technology and Knowledge-based economy, said that they were the idea of a private company and had nothing to do with Iranian authorities.🔴 Hilarious!
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The Islamist regime in Iran showcased humans in cheap robot costumes with flimsy makeup as “humanoid robots” at its Tech Expo, and it immediately became the subject of ridicule on social media.
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“I only know that one of the companies did this for its own advertising. Consequently, it has no objection, and it must definitely accept its responsibility,” Afshin said. “This was not something that the policymakers of the Innotex Kish exhibition did, or it was not the exhibition’s idea to use humans as robots.”
However, later expo representatives revealed that the two people were doing a short performance for one of the booths. There was no claim that they are actual robots.
The theatrical presentation was designed as an engaging marketing display rather than a demonstration of functional artificial intelligence.
