Community Confused by "Rizzbot" Walking Around With Cowboy Hat and Chain, Complimenting Their Outfits in Gen Alpha Slang

Community Confused by "Rizzbot" Walking Around With Cowboy Hat and Chain, Complimenting Their Outfits in Gen Alpha Slang

"Yo G, that sleeveless plaid shirt is straight bangin.'"

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A cowboy hat-toting bipedal robot, dubbed "Jake the Rizzbot," is wandering the streets of Austin, Texas, turning heads and flinging compliments using some truly cringeworthy — and equally hilarious — Gen Alpha slang.

Videos on social media show the robot approaching strangers to compliment their appearance.

"Hey, I'm Jake, it's nice to meet you," the bot told one puzzled onlooker in a widely-shared TikTok video. "Yo G, that sleeveless plaid shirt is straight bangin'. And you flexin' that build like a boss, and that watch on your wrist? Iced out, nephew!"

"You radiate that big boss energy, my dude," it added. "Serious expression, but you looking hard."

The head-turning droid is a bipedal G1 robot developed by Chinese tech company Unitree Robotics. Thanks to reinforcement learning AI, the $16,000 mech can quickly pick up how to perform some seriously impressive tricks, like an impressively swooping roundhouse kick.

In addition to some characteristically sycophantic large language model-based voice chops and a camera feed, Jake the Rizzbot is the kind of lighthearted implementation of AI that we could use more of these days.

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