A cotton-picking robot with 108 arms is the latest robotics spectacle
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-07-25
A cotton-picking robot with 108 arms is making the rounds as an absurdly over-engineered piece of robotics.
The appeal here is the spectacle: instead of a sleek humanoid or a polished product demo, it’s a hyper-mechanical machine whose sheer number of arms becomes the joke and the hook. It fits the kind of robotics clip people share because it is both impressive and ridiculous.
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