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edhopper

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4. bipedal Robots

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 09:40 AM

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are a bad design. Need way too much tech just to stay upright. There is no work function they would do that needs them to be humanoid.

Yeah, yeah sexbots.

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