People will find anything to be upset about

Also isn't white just the natural plastic coloring before any dye?

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.

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.

Outrage addiction is so real.

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".

The answer is albedo, white is easier to find of you lose it especially in space.

I'm so fucking sick of everything being politicized. Now we're doing it with fucking plastic....

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.

We need the semi transparent colorful plastics robots.

IMO we need to stop humanizing robots. There is no reason for a robot to be human in form. Form should match function. Furthermore, a humanoid robots elicit feelings from people that are not helpful or healthy. There are people who might advise abuse a robot because it isn't an actual person, it doesn't mean that their abuse is less mentally ill. They should be viewed as a machine and treated as such, no better than a car.

Ugh... can we just fucking stop already?

actually, if we're painting them black, isn't that just blackface now?

Ken Bone? THAT Ken Bone? Ew

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...

Anyone remember the movie Ice Pirates? There’s a whole scene in there about the color of the robot.

Fuck it. All androids are now required to be highlighter yellow. That'll give em something to argue about.

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."

Color: exists Newspapers: Does this color imply.. racism??

I don't see a lot of white painted robots around. I actually don't see a lot of painted robots around in the first place

That robot looks like a caramel sundae. Oh my god I’m hungry

I've been told black plastic doesnt get recycled at the recycling plants because the sorting system doesn't work on black plastic.

Sure, there is likely some racism involved, but it also has absolutely nothing to do with white being the cheapest type of ABS and PLA plastics. Greed trumps racism. And that was the most unintentionally descriptive sentence I have ever said about MAGA-ism.

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

Well Tesla's new robot is black so? I don't know what to think.

"From now on we'll paint them..." *rolls a die* "...blue."

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