Flying baby-faced robot is the first of its kind and its freaking people out: What the fk are we doing!?

This adolescent-looking android is the first flying humanoid robot — but the internet is creeped out by how it looks.The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) recently shared a video that updated curious viewers on the project titled iRonCub MK3’s progress, but the robot’s face seemed to be of special interest to the internet.“Why does he look so freaky though,” pondered one viewer in a Reddit thread dedicated to the humanoid robot, meanwhile another wrote: “This is very impressive, but by God, what’s with that face? He is staring into my soul.”“The technology showcased here is great, but why in the f–k does it have to look like a monster baby?” wondered another Redditor.Some viewers who stumbled across the mechanical creation happened to be especially out-of-the-box thinkers and proposed some wild theories about its appearance.“When the uprising comes, you’ll be much less likely to shoot a cyborg with a baby face,” theorized one user.

“You’ll hesitate that fraction of a second, which is all it needs…”However human the robot may look, conspiracy theorists don’t need to fret — it’s not controlled by AI.Instead, it’s teleoperated, or in other words, controlled by real people remotely.

The Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence research team within the IIT works almost entirely with robotic humanoid technology — and now has five different robots, according to Live Science.This particular model is the result of two years of research, testing and development.

With the jet pack, the baby robot weighs in at 154 lbs and stands about 3 feet tall.According to the IIT, the iRonCub MK3 is being developed with “specific applications such as disaster response” in mind.Typically, these robotic research efforts focus on land-based rescue and exploration, but the institute believes that implementing aerial locomotion skills will increase the utility and efficiency of any such endeavors.“This research is radically different from...