Also isn’t white just the natural plastic coloring before any dye?
Yeah, most plastics are either transparent or milky white-ish without colourings or additives.
Wow the racist just keeps getting deeper and deeper
Just in: The reason why certain chemicals are white is because they’re racist.
No, the black ones get deeper.
Bright white, no.
Yup. It’s like giving you a silver car free from primer, paint and clear coat. It would save the manufacturer oodles of cash.
And I’d also like to remind people that news’s primary focus is not to report facts, but generate sales. The way they do that is spinning events in any way shape or form. Even going so far as not covering certain topics because it may hurt their bottom line.
The worst thing they did was convince people they were unbiased and trustworthy.
Good ol’ CNN post-purchase. Chasing racism and sensationalism over actual news…
White is an excellent color for a complicated robot. Marks aren’t hidden. It’s not taking light away when looking in at hardware, it doesn’t shade surroundings as much, and it matches every other damn piece of scientific equipment they throw in to labs, too.
Color neutral and bright has utility purpose. CNN is too stupid and dishonest to know that.
To be fair it wasn’t CNN doing this groundbreaking “research”.
They reported it as true.
Yes, but the article only exists because there is this academic cottage industry that produces insane grievance studies in the first place.
Plus if it’s outside, there are fewer heat issues.
Also, it’s not an actual skin color.
Of course not. Real people don’t actually glow in black light…
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I dunno’ man, some Irish and Swedish folks are suuuuper damn pasty-white. Give 'em a little scare and some turn paper white. xD
And if things go wrong, it can’t lurk in the shadows.
Turns out lighter colors are perceived as cleaner and friendlier.
Or maybe hospitals are racist too? Or we need more hospitals with black walls and floors.
We could call them gothpitals.
Love it, I’m in
They should paint them red and tile them like all leisure centers used to be in the '80s.
Enter into the void of the black MRI machine
I dunno about friendlier, but it’s certainly easier to see dirt and stains, which makes it easier to keep clean.
Imma be honest, that hospital sounds metal as fuck. I’m down.
Outrage addiction is so real.
The irony is that you are the one who is outraged. Like I’m not trying to sass or insult you, but this is literally the conclusion they want you to have.
Of course this isn’t a real problem, its basically a hate-click troll. But those clicks still equal profit so why not publish it, news is a profit centered business like anything else, not an objective view on “the truth”.
I wouldn’t say that I’m outraged, but I get what you’re saying. It’s just garbage for clicks.
I was just trying to turn a phrase off what you said, probably could’ve phrased it better. But I’m glad we are on the same page Captain.
No worries, and yeah we are. These news sites live for generating outrage, outrage about what others are outraged about, or occasionally both at the same time.
It’s so frustrating to try to stay informed without feeling like a news source is trying to manipulate my emotions or spin stories for whichever side of the political spectrum they lean toward.
We need the semi transparent colorful plastics robots.
I’m totally into the idea of a robot covered in N64 funtastic grape.
I’m thinking of my special edition purple glittery Game Boy.
Letting people see all the crappy soldering and cable bridges does not please the shareholders.
Scandalous!
Robots in actual use are painted safety yellow or orange, because they are a safety hazard. Thus we put up warnings, fences and light gates. Plus shutoff buttons everywhere and a multi step process to turn them on.
Tesla’s KUKA arms were red when I worked there. But that’s probably because Elon hates yellow.
Each brand has their own colour they tend to use (unless a customer like Tesla orders something custom). Kuka usually is orange, Fanuc is yellow, ABB white, Yaskawa blue, etc.
Aren’t most plastics white or yellow by default? Making them other colors requires adding dye. Clear might be an option but it might be a little uncanny valley style morbid to see their parts moving around under their “skin”.
I read recently that white plastic was the more expensive color to produce. I wanted to cite/link a source but internet search is frustratingly bad these days.
Edit: Not quite what I read but close enough.
https://moralfibres.co.uk/the-plastics-to-avoid-next-time-youre-shopping/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1bxng7f/comment/kyehonz/
I remember seeing someone talking about pipes and recommending white pipes for hot water, because you can’t recycle plastic into white color and recycled plastic had less thermal resistance (isn’t that white pipes had more thermal resistance, but that white pipes are probably not recycled).
That’s a regulated thing already, you can’t just decide to use one color or another, pluming regulations have designated use for black pipe, blue pipe, white pipe, that I’m aware of, but I couldn’t say exactly, I only sold the stuff, I just know when a contractor says ‘‘I need [color] [material] [size]’’ there’s no alternative pipe they can use.
That’s a regulated thing [where I live] already…
No everywhere have the same regulations.
Hence
The answer is albedo, white is easier to find of you lose it especially in space.
also reflects more light/heat, reducing the need for radiators to manage heat. This is why most spacecraft are white.
It’s not that people want to be upset, but that “news” sites get profit from clicks and attention. It’s not that anyone cares about this, but saying people care about it gets hate views.
I mean, here you are talking about it…
Ken Bone? THAT Ken Bone? Ew
Fuck it. All androids are now required to be highlighter yellow. That’ll give em something to argue about.
elect me president and i will mandate that all electronics of any kind be 80’s beige pre-aged to piss-stained yellow.
So you’re comparing robots to Asians because they work a lot in school? That’s super racist.
No, we need blue robots like Smurfs. People won’t complain.
Blue like the mean kids on the Proud Family? So now they are representing mean black people? /s
Robots are white for the same reason Apple computers are white: to chase that 2001 A Space Odyssey aesthetic that’s become shorthand for “futuristic.”
The Space Odyssey is racist too??
(Actually I haven’t seen it, but a movie from 1968, wouldn’t surprise me, if it wasn’t all that PC)
It doesn’t even really involve people (there’s 1 guy and an AI).
But HAL was totally racist against humans.
You haven’t seen it?
Wow.
But no, doesn’t involve that.
From what I heard about on offhand comment white is used for more sleek-ish shapes and make things seem while black can make things look more intimidating and smaller. I’m pretty sure the size thing is used mostly in interior design
Don’t trust me on this citation needed for this whole comment
This is a common design principle. White seems bigger and inviting, black seems smaller and not as inviting. It’s just how light works, it’s not about skin.
Yeah I wasn’t talking about white and black in terms of paint, not the skin color white and black
But thanks for confirming my info that I had no idea if it was true
That robot looks like a caramel sundae. Oh my god I’m hungry
