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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 err
by smlacy 3y ago
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.
- londons_explore 3y agoI think this is what you get when material scientists have just a few hours to produce a video, and have no knowledge of video editing software.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 3y agoPeople watch it, so there's money to be made. This isn't new either. There are plenty of TV channels that run 24/7 "documentaries" of similar quality.
- dylan604 3y agocontent producer is probably not native speaker of the language? also, isn't this a trendy thing to do on TikTok?
- elil17 3y agoI 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGJXTUZbbWA I believe the spherical gear is used to move the "elephant head."
- rtkwe 3y agoIt's unclear to me if this is an offshoot from that university lab trying to get interest in commercialization of their tech or if it's a content mill setup looking to cash in on this obscure-ish Japanese research lab's robots. I could believe either and the kind of production fits either to me.
- dsfyu404ed 3y agoThese are made by bots or low paid foreign labor (and probably soon AI if not already) and spammed at places like Reddit/HN for a) karma farming to make accounts look "legit" for advertising use b) ad view revenue. It's basically the same business model as SEO-ified blogspam.