During the last 24 hours a robot called Titan has been creating huge waves across the internet as viewers have been wowed by impressive videos of the robot dancing, singing, making jokes, and walking with incredible agility. With its bright flashing lights, terminator style looks, and hoards of humans adoring him with no fear for their own safety, the videos of Titan feel like they have been stripped right out of a movie scene. In true movie form, one can’t help but envision the robot suddenly malfunctioning and destroying the feeble, helpless humans around him in an burst of terror. Too bad Titan is a fake.
A person inside the Titan robot sees through the shiny breast plate
Although robots with many of Titan’s skills do indeed exist, they are usually powered by major financial backing, take years of development, and are still quite a rarity. Suddenly out of nowhere comes Titan the robot into the spotlight from Cyberstein, a small entertainment company from the UK. While several bloggers and the like are praising Titan with amazement, a little research uncovers that Titan is not a true robot at all – there is a person inside of it!
Real or not, the Titan “robot” provides fantastic entertainment as this is in fact what he has been created for. Cyberstein Robotics is an entertainment company that has been around for over a decade. They are in the business of bringing their human encased robotic entertainer to major events around the world, no doubt for a major fee. Cyberstein may not win any awards for breakthroughs in artificial intelligence or robotic design, but I have to hand to them for creating some pretty awesome entertainment. True to their roots as an entertainment company, Cyberstein has a sleek looking website.
Titan has been on the show circuit for 10 years, performing at more than 3,000 events in locations from Dubai to London to Beijing. It is fascinating how the internet allows for certain ideas or products to spring from relatively obscurity to web sensation overnight, often with the story completely wrong. For whatever reason, Titan is now having this moment. Some blogger or otherwise saw the videos and linked to them and thus was planted the seed that has caused tens of thousands across the net to gape in wonder at what they believe is a true, autonomous robot.
For what its worth, the videos sure are entertaining, and although Titan may not be the real deal himself, certainly there is a growing legion of robots from ASIMO to the HRP-4C that truly are the real deal. Sooner or later those movie scenes of robots wreaking havoc may not just be movie scenes after all.
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i think its a real machine
It doesn’t matter how you put it. TITAN is an absolute amazement for the masses. Its performance is so hilarious, its movements so “robot-like” that you can’t help but get lost in the fantasy for a few moments. I want to know how much it costs to book it. I want to know how aquire a suit like it, and I want to know how I can get in on the act! This is an amazing display of humor, mechanics, and cybersuit performance. My hat off to TITAN! Please contact me with this information!
It doesn’t matter how you put it. TITAN is an absolute amazement for the masses. Its performance is so hilarious, its movements so “robot-like” that you can’t help but get lost in the fantasy for a few moments. I want to know how much it costs to book it. I want to know how aquire a suit like it, and I want to know how I can get in on the act! This is an amazing display of humor, mechanics, and cybersuit performance. My hat off to TITAN! Please contact me with this information!
FAKE!
FAKE!
wrong
British crap! only japs can do robots! admit it your good old days are over , china is more powerful than uk now.
japs? good old days? china more powerful? could you provide facts with no emotion next time rather than slander?! i am suprised your post was allowed to stay. you seem bent on projecting your opinion in a very instulting manner- anything wrong with you you would like to share? locked ina cupboard as a child or just too many mcdonalds and you can’t have a decent conversation without instulting others?
British crap! only japs can do robots! admit it your good old days are over , china is more powerful than uk now.
japs? good old days? china more powerful? could you provide facts with no emotion next time rather than slander?! i am suprised your post was allowed to stay. you seem bent on projecting your opinion in a very instulting manner- anything wrong with you you would like to share? locked ina cupboard as a child or just too many mcdonalds and you can’t have a decent conversation without instulting others?
What about 'Titan the Robot prototype' is that fake?
Only “Freaks” like me would know ‘that thing’ isn’t a real robot, DUH!…But hey what can I say, some people are just Blah!
Only “Freaks” like me would know ‘that thing’ isn’t a real robot, DUH!…But hey what can I say, some people are just Blah!
I wonder though – did the blogger know it was fake and try to pull a fast one (which succeeded!) or was this a viral plant by the company, or was, as you surmise, a blogger really tricked?
You can see the corrugated arm-tubes for the humans, and the robots never use their shoulders. Though I’m not sure I’d be paying attention to that if it was presented to me as real, considering all the amazing things we’ve seen around this place in the past year.
I wonder though – did the blogger know it was fake and try to pull a fast one (which succeeded!) or was this a viral plant by the company, or was, as you surmise, a blogger really tricked?
You can see the corrugated arm-tubes for the humans, and the robots never use their shoulders. Though I’m not sure I’d be paying attention to that if it was presented to me as real, considering all the amazing things we’ve seen around this place in the past year.