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<blockquote data-quote="SlugSlinger" data-source="post: 3183786" data-attributes="member: 7248"><p>And here’s Russia’s version:</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>A Russian robot named ‘Boris’ hailed as hi-tech on state TV has been unmasked as a man in a suit</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Russia-24 praised 'Boris' for its dancing skills only for it to emerge the android was actually a man in a costume...</strong></span></p><p><a href="https://inews.co.uk/author/florence-snead/" target="_blank">Florence Snead</a>Thursday December 13th 2018</p><p>A robot hailed in Russia as the latest in <a href="https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/" target="_blank">cutting-edge technology</a> has been unmasked – as a man in a suit.</p><p></p><p>The android – known as Boris – had been lauded on the state-owned broadcaster Russia-24 as a technological breakthrough with the ability to walk, talk and dance.</p><p></p><p>But photos later revealed there had been a person inside all along.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Questions over authenticity</strong></span></p><p>The revelation came after a number of unconvinced Russian journalists began to question the robot’s authenticity.</p><p></p><p>They are reported <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/12/high-tech-robot-at-russia-forum-turns-out-to-be-man-in-robot-suit?CMP=share_btn_tw" target="_blank">to have questioned the android’s lack of external sensors</a>, how it was made so quickly and why the robot had made so many “unnecessary movements” when showing off its dancing skills.</p><p></p><p>They also noticed that a person would have fitted inside the “robot” perfectly…</p><p></p><p>It all started to fall apart when a photograph was posted on social media in which a person’s neck is clearly visible in a gap in the suit.</p><p></p><p>It then emerged ‘Boris’ was in actual fact a 250,000 rouble (£2,975) costume called Alyosha the Robot, made by a company called Show Robots.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>‘An almost complete illusion’</strong></span></p><p>On the website of the company behind the robot, it is described as being able to create “an almost complete illusion that you have a real robot”.</p><p></p><p>According to reports, a photograph published by MBKh Media, a news agency founded by Vladimir Putin’s opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky, appeared to show an actor wearing the suit ahead of the annual Proyektoria technology forum, where “Boris” was displayed.</p><p></p><p>MBKh Media insisted that the event’s organisers did not try to pass off the robot as real, despite it being described as such on state television.</p><p></p><p>Footage of the robot reportedly disappeared briefly from Russia-24’s YouTube channel on Wednesday morning but it came back again a short while later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SlugSlinger, post: 3183786, member: 7248"] And here’s Russia’s version: [SIZE=6][B]A Russian robot named ‘Boris’ hailed as hi-tech on state TV has been unmasked as a man in a suit[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][B]Russia-24 praised 'Boris' for its dancing skills only for it to emerge the android was actually a man in a costume...[/B][/SIZE] [URL='https://inews.co.uk/author/florence-snead/']Florence Snead[/URL]Thursday December 13th 2018 A robot hailed in Russia as the latest in [URL='https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/']cutting-edge technology[/URL] has been unmasked – as a man in a suit. The android – known as Boris – had been lauded on the state-owned broadcaster Russia-24 as a technological breakthrough with the ability to walk, talk and dance. But photos later revealed there had been a person inside all along. [SIZE=5][B]Questions over authenticity[/B][/SIZE] The revelation came after a number of unconvinced Russian journalists began to question the robot’s authenticity. They are reported [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/12/high-tech-robot-at-russia-forum-turns-out-to-be-man-in-robot-suit?CMP=share_btn_tw']to have questioned the android’s lack of external sensors[/URL], how it was made so quickly and why the robot had made so many “unnecessary movements” when showing off its dancing skills. They also noticed that a person would have fitted inside the “robot” perfectly… It all started to fall apart when a photograph was posted on social media in which a person’s neck is clearly visible in a gap in the suit. It then emerged ‘Boris’ was in actual fact a 250,000 rouble (£2,975) costume called Alyosha the Robot, made by a company called Show Robots. [SIZE=5][B]‘An almost complete illusion’[/B][/SIZE] On the website of the company behind the robot, it is described as being able to create “an almost complete illusion that you have a real robot”. According to reports, a photograph published by MBKh Media, a news agency founded by Vladimir Putin’s opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky, appeared to show an actor wearing the suit ahead of the annual Proyektoria technology forum, where “Boris” was displayed. MBKh Media insisted that the event’s organisers did not try to pass off the robot as real, despite it being described as such on state television. Footage of the robot reportedly disappeared briefly from Russia-24’s YouTube channel on Wednesday morning but it came back again a short while later. [/QUOTE]
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