Wow, so realistic! Uh, waitaminute here…

Footage making the rounds on social media shows what appear to be astonishingly lifelike humanoid robots posing at the World Robot Conference in Beijing last week.

But instead of showing off the latest and greatest in humanoid robotics, two of the “robots” turned out to be human women cosplaying as futuristic gynoids, presumably hired by animatronics company Ex-Robots.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/chinese-company-humanoid-robots-humans

During the World Robot Conference 2024 in Beijing from Aug 21 – Aug 25, animatronics company EX-Robot (or EX Robots as reported by some news media) hired 2 women cosplayed as robots to spice up the exhibition.

Hmmm… two human beings mimicked the movements of robots that… pic.twitter.com/hRGxgfe4mD

— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) August 26, 2024

Apparently some people were convinced these women were actually robots.

For real? This just seems like another crass, sexist attempt at titillating fanboys.