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🦔 Shanghai robotics startup DroidUp unveiled Moya, a humanoid robot designed to look and feel human. She maintains eye contact, expresses emotions through micro-expressions, and her skin stays warm at 32-36°C. She has simulated fat, muscle, and a rib cage underneath. The company says she has 92% human-like walking accuracy. A camera behind her eyes combines with AI to enable real-time interaction. The company hopes to deploy her in healthcare and education. Price starts at $173,000. My Take The company says they want Moya in aged care facilities, but the internet has already figured out what a customizable humanoid with warm skin and emotional expressions will actually be used for. We just covered young people quitting social media because digital interaction feels hollow and the loneliness epidemic driving people toward in-person connection. And now here's a $173,000 product designed to simulate human warmth and eye contact for people who presumably can't or won't get it from actual humans. For that price you could fund a decade of real dates, buy a plane, or just go outside. But there's clearly a bet being made that enough people would rather pay for a simulation than deal with the friction of real relationships. The same economy that's isolating people through overwork, displacement, and algorithmic feeds is now selling them synthetic companionship at luxury car prices, and I find that deeply strange. Hedgie🤗

The $moya wave is gonna hit way harder than Neo did if I had to guess This is incel/ weebs’ saving grace, no longer do they need to jestergoon and get mog framed by ASU frat leaders only to lose the race for foids. They will simply spend all their time in their mom’s basement with their Moya love bot Still early but I’m chillin GQKK2zUcVZuMCVUfYNMzJVSW9GHwoLZFyRP75UgCpump

🦔 Shanghai robotics startup DroidUp unveiled Moya, a humanoid robot designed to look and feel human. She maintains eye contact, expresses emotions through micro-expressions, and her skin stays warm at 32-36°C. She has simulated fat, muscle, and a rib cage underneath. The company says she has 92% human-like walking accuracy. A camera behind her eyes combines with AI to enable real-time interaction. The company hopes to deploy her in healthcare and education. Price starts at $173,000. My Take The company says they want Moya in aged care facilities, but the internet has already figured out what a customizable humanoid with warm skin and emotional expressions will actually be used for. We just covered young people quitting social media because digital interaction feels hollow and the loneliness epidemic driving people toward in-person connection. And now here's a $173,000 product designed to simulate human warmth and eye contact for people who presumably can't or won't get it from actual humans. For that price you could fund a decade of real dates, buy a plane, or just go outside. But there's clearly a bet being made that enough people would rather pay for a simulation than deal with the friction of real relationships. The same economy that's isolating people through overwork, displacement, and algorithmic feeds is now selling them synthetic companionship at luxury car prices, and I find that deeply strange. Hedgie🤗