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Re: Pipe Inspection Robot [video]

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What's with this kind of "Technical Innovation" video? Synthesized voiceover, royalty-free upbeat stock music background, myriad of grammatical and factual errors, over-hypes a fairly simple device, clearly developed/produced outside of the U.S. but is targeting an English-speaking audience.

I understand the "looking for funding" aspect of this, but if you can't get simple grammatical errors fixed, or honestly, if you can't afford to higher quality voiceover talent for your promotional video, then it just makes the product seem like a scam. Its fascinating that the producers of this device and video don't realize how bad this kind of thing could make them look.

There was lot of talk of "spherical gear" in the intro to the video, but as best as I could tell, the robot itself didn't use a spherical gear at all.

Re: Pipe Inspection Robot [video]

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post #5

What's with this kind of "Technical Innovation" video? Synthesized voiceover, royalty-free upbeat stock music background, myriad of grammatical and factual errors, over-hypes a fairly simple device, clearly developed/produced outside of the U.S. but is targeting an English-speaking audience. I understand the "looking for funding" aspect of this, but if you can't get simple grammatical errors fixed, or honestly, if yo…

content producer is probably not native speaker of the language? also, isn't this a trendy thing to do on TikTok?

Re: Pipe Inspection Robot [video]

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post #5

What's with this kind of "Technical Innovation" video? Synthesized voiceover, royalty-free upbeat stock music background, myriad of grammatical and factual errors, over-hypes a fairly simple device, clearly developed/produced outside of the U.S. but is targeting an English-speaking audience. I understand the "looking for funding" aspect of this, but if you can't get simple grammatical errors fixed, or honestly, if yo…

I do not think this video was made by the lab that invented this. I couldn't find where they got the video clips from, but I did find a video about an earlier iteration of a cilia-based pipe robot from the same lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGJXTUZbbWA

I believe the spherical gear is used to move the "elephant head."

Re: Pipe Inspection Robot [video]

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It's another youtube vid with the weird script and voiceover that sound AI generated. I can't watch more than a few seconds of those - it really feels like I am ingesting some artificial and inedible brain food.

Almost like these are videos coming straight out of the Dead Internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
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