Photos on Facebook and Instagram purport to show a humanoid robot 13 feet (4 meters)
tall, weighing 1.5 tons, being developed in South Korea.
Credit: Courtesy Vitaly Bulgarov
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." https://www.livescience.com/57296-giant-humanoid-robot-video-hoax.html
