Robot racism?

The actual reason is space-flight aesthetics, right?
Space stuff itself being white for insulation purposes.

I think the actual reason is that it looks scifi and sick.
Absurd, you didn't even read the meme. Space stuff is white because space is racist.
- *spacist
- Space can't be racist, space is black.
  That's why NASA are trying to colonize it
White stuff in a dark space makes it easier to spot when shined upon. And outer space is a pretty fucking dark place.
I'd use neon lime instead or glow in the dark coating, but it's expensive or annoying to the eye.
- That is only a side effect. It's white (or metallic) to reflect as much radiation from the sun as possible, to prevent overheating.

I'd think that light colours make it easier to see if plastic panels have cracked or there's leaks in hydraullics or scorched spots.

Silence, you racist

Robots should be red for strength, green for agility, and blue for precision.

imma paint me mekk purple cuz ent nobody seen a purple mekk
- I like how the yellow one seems to be the only one running. Red almost looks like it's ice skating while moving its arms around.
Paint those fuckers orange, so that they're visible at all times.
(Except in a Dutch football match.)
Let us get out the Paint bucket!
yellow for speed of course

It's popular to make robots white because it shows scuffs, falls, and damage more easily. Which helps developers figure out how they fall or where they scuff from mistaken actions.

Nooo! It's gotta be racism. Because everything is racist.
- My phone is black. That's definitely racism. Somehow.

Sign my petition to make all robots neon colored.

I could get behind bringing this whole look back for them
- Oh I forgot that I had a PlayStation like that. I traded the normal PlayStation plus a shiny Gyarados pokemon card for it.
Oh, I see, you want to own robots...of color?
I think they should be beige and make it retro
- Put a strip of fake wood on it like those old wagons.

Is that really ken bone?

I have never met a human the color of that robot. Not even albino folks are that color.

Not even albino folks are that color.
Spatter it with some orange freckles and I could show you a few Irish folks that shade.

Ragebait never fails to work.

How many replies, likes and retweets does the average CNN Twitter post have? I bet this one has more.

Also this screenshot is from 2019 and the crux of the article is:

The robots used in the study are clearly robots but have human-like limbs and a head, with exterior complexions that are white – which is to say, pinkish – or black – really, a deep brown.

It's not that difficult. White robots are good, black robots are evil.

Nobody has ever been saved from a fire by a black robot with red eyes. Checkmate!

Uno reverse checkmate.
- Built by the Florida state government after their state was the only one that failed to secure a native superhero (Florida man's career was a brief yet spectacular failure resulting in 281.5 fatalities) robo mothman is an unfortunate example of design by committee. Though stated to be an easy going and great guy by people who know him personally, his career has been mired by multiple incidents of injuries caused by people fleeing from him in terror and inadvertantly running into hazards.
  Robo mothmans psychologist has stated that he is coming to terms with the realities of his apperance and the association of heros and super~~men~~people has issued a formal request to the league of supervillains to stop soliciting his joining of their organisation on the basis of harassment and emotional abuse.
- I should get AI to make an image of Darth Vader building homes for the homeless while teaching struggling kids craftsmanship, then I should post it with the title "How could the Empire do wrong with great guys like old Vader at the helm?"

CNN has always loved ragebait.

Not always. But yeah, they SUCK nowadays.
They'll hit publish on any brain fart and pat themselves on the back for being oh-so-clever. And now with a persistent pressure towards a right-wing slant.
And if it was something like fox news, oann, newsmaxx, daily wire, or national desk...they'd say the robotics industry is becoming too woke when a white robot is painted a different color

Now I want a robot in glorious GameCube purple.

Shit, and here I was thinking I like white robots because white is my second favorite color. Damn, that makes me racist, doesn't it?

Yes. White should be your least favorite color, not second most.
- This but unironically. Its a bitch to keep clean and exhausts my eyes to look at for long periods of time.
- ermagerd, are you telling me that if I add a website to "Favorites," they all disappear and get replaced?!?!?!
White isn't even a color
- Let's not be pedantic. White is a color.
  Yeah, yeah, white is composed of all wavelengths, just like green is composed of the yellow wavelength and the blue wavelength.
- Imagine still thinking that colors exist lol, what a loser
- Are you for real

Polished chrome or go home!

Cybertruck owner spotted

So does CNN just push all the bullshit now?

They were supposed to be moderately respectable but this is a mad article. It's not even the first time this comment is being made and every single time it's pointed out how stupid it is

I was hoping for hot pink. Guess I’m a misogynist meow.

Most devices are actually black but Apple tends to make white products (even if they do offer other colours, it's the white version in their ads) to differentiate themselves from other products.

Because Apple puts a strong emphasis on marketing, a device that has white casing is seen as new and more advanced than other products. So when companies are promoting a new technology they will tend to make it white to piggy back on Apple's extensive marketing.

I mean look at that photo of that robot. They'd probably need to round out the edges a little more to make people feel like it's something that Apple would make but there is some degree of association there.

There's probably some influence from science fiction too, but the root cause of the aesthetic of the robots in things like the Portal games can probably be traced back to Apple as well. I don't recall robots in science fiction looking this way until after Apple went this direction in their product design.

a device that has white casing is seen as new and more advanced than other products
- Eeeeeeevv.
  Eeeeevveh.
  Eeeevehh?
  Eeeeeeeeevvv.
  Don't tell me you didn't read that in his voice.
  It's astounding how Pixar is able to imbue such emotion in tin cans. One of the best movies they've made, imho.

Stupid articles like this are trying to normalize having these robots around for when they start rolling them out to do menial jobs in a few years.

Uhhh.

You could spray-paint only half of them black, half of them white. Or ideally, you'd throw in some shades of gray and all kinds of other colors, too. There's lots of ways to dodge an apparent bias without flopping all the way to an opposite bias.

Or just don't care cuz it's fucking stupid ?
We could even wait till we commercialise and mass produce them before bringing up stupid topics like this one!
Asexual flag robot it is.
Half of them should be black on the left and white on the right and the other half white on the right and black on the left.