Chinese automotive company XPeng has been making a major splash with its Terminator-like humanoid robot, dubbed Iron.
Footage of the company’s announcement showed the robot sauntering across the stage with an incredibly lifelike gait. The CEO even peeled it open to show there wasn’t a human inside — hijinx previously pulled by Elon Musk’s Tesla and Chinese company Ex-Robots.
Another design choice that drew the attention of online pundits online: the robot’s distinctly female anatomy, including pronounced breasts and hips — a notable outlier in a field dominated by hulking, broad-shouldered robots with masculine-coded names like Atlas or Optimus.
“Why does it need boobs yet no face?” one Reddit user asked. “These things are mega creepy.”
Was it an attempt to further female representatio

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