Whoever decided to put all those workstations next to it there really gives no fucks about safety at all.

It really does look completely fake. The perfect lighting on the upper body is unrealistic.

Can you point out to me the pixels in question?

agreed.

Yup; here is the Live Science take---in brief--it's a conceptual artist's thing (Vitaly Bulgarov) who has faked a website and even the Korea development company...

"New video clips purporting to show a 13-foot-tall (4 meters) humanoid robot piloted by a person in its torso look like something straight out of "Avatar" or "Transformers," but a Live Science investigation has revealed reasons to believe some skepticism might be in order.

The robot clips have been picked up by a variety of online news and technology outlets, including Kotaku and Wired UK. But the South Korean company that is supposedly developing the robot has virtually no online presence and was unfamiliar to robotics researchers contacted by Live Science.

Furthermore, the only source for the videos or any information about them is the Facebook and Instagram pages of a designer whose website mentions a conceptual art project about a "fictional robotics corporation that develops its products in a not-so-distant future."

The designer, Vitaly Bulgarov, told Live Science that the robot is real. However, he declined to share the names of scientists or engineers working on the project, and messages to the purported CEO of the company went unreturned. [Gallery: See Images of the Giant Humanoid Robot]

Mystery business

According to Bulgarov's Facebook page, the videos were taken in South Korea at a company called Korea Future Technology. Almost all references to this company online appear to be associated with Bulgarov's posts and the subsequent news pieces on the robot. Bulgarov said the company has been operating for several years."

""Robots are messy business," said Christian Hubicki, a postdoctoral robotics researcher at Georgia Tech who worked on the DURUS robot. "They get torn apart and put back together over and over, and transmission grease gets all over the place. Even the nice white floor is beautifully unscuffed [in these videos]. Never once during likely hundreds of hours of debugging the giant robot did it kick in a way that scratched it up?"

The people around the robot also appear to be too close for safety and are not following the standard practice of wearing safety goggles, Hubicki said.

Bulgarov said the company's CEO required that the lab be clean, and that the videos had been brightened in postproduction. Fearing said robotics labs in Asia can be relatively neat.

However, there's another problem: Hubicki told Live Science that the robot's leg joints look unusually smooth given the force that the step of a 1.5-ton robot would exert on the motors. [5 Reasons to Fear Robots]"

http://www.livescience.com/57296-giant-humanoid-robot-video-hoax.html

Gosh, that's a very good fake then. I can't see anything wrong with the motion, they got that right on. The way everything shudders when it steps, the pane of glass beating like a drum skin, the tethers lolling back and forth, a little bit of slip before the foot plants, the guy in back pulling the "tail" on reverse. Not saying it's impossible to fake, but that is some insanely technical animation.

I agree it looks fake. Upvoted for amount of effort that went into creating the fake

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Nothing about this is technically impossible, with enough money (that part is the toughest to swallow: where did these kids get enough money?)... we've done it all before on a smaller scale. It's believable to me. I'm a skeptic, but I also know the internet jumps to "Fake!" pretty easily. Like with the Zapata flyboard, for example.

while it's not impossible for this to be fake, the level of time, effort, and skill to fake it is huge. the technical animation on it is ridiculous. as a VFX artist, i don't see anything off about it but i do see a ton of details that would definitely be glossed over if it were fake since they add a whole lot of work for very little pay off.

also, vitaly bulgarov posted tons of in progress pics and videos on FB. doesn't definitively prove it's not fake (since pretty much anything can be faked with enough time and money) but makes it incredibly unlikely.

https://www.facebook.com/vitaly.bulgarov/media_set?set=vb.100000490175920&type=2

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If it is fake - it's great CGI. Either way - what a world we live in, eh?

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Holy crap. I vote not fake: https://www.facebook.com/vitaly.bulgarov/videos/vb.100000490175920/1654802614546062/?type=3&theater

I change my vote from Fake Camp to Real Camp.

I guess it's not that unsafe (proximity to workstations) since it's tethered to the ceiling. They would have to make a serious "back cage" before they un-tether this model - if it fell down it would destroy all those control boards on its back. Also would have to beef up safety in the drivers cockpit (not that I'd ever sign up to be a beta mech driver)

On balance I think I'd prefer to be fooled by really excellent CGI than to be skeptical to the point that I think anything fantastical must be fake. Truly I still can't see what people thought was unrealistic in the first video.

regardless of how skeptical anyone is, you will still be fooled by excellent VFX.

Not fake, just hyped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmy-lwcsu78