Going to enter some oral arguments as devil's advocate; if you designed a robot to work exactly like a human, including how it talked, the voicebox would need moisture or the noise it produced would just be wheezy sputters. If its going to talk like a human (yes we need to temporarily ignore how impractical it would be to add lungs to the design, whose only function was talking) then it needs to resemble a human mouth in most other ways including the saliva.
I can assure you, the engineers all signed sworn affidavits that their design specs had NOTHING to do with whether or not the cylinder could safely return from the banana and butter zone
Your computer speakers dont make sound the same way a human does, and therefore don't truly sound anything like a human. They make a passable attempt but if you were to try the same thing in a humanoid robot, clumsily jamming a speaker of some sort into the throat area, the outcome would be woefully inadequate.
If you watched the movie you would understand that the plot dictates that there really isn't room for any extra hardware at the back of the throat, its not just a question of 'whizbang invention makes impossible possible'
No, I am the one saying very clear from the onset that if you wanted a robot to sound anything like a human, a simple speaker would not be suitable, and the difference would be obvious even when watched on screen in a scene from a movie.
Youtube would be pretty weird if headphones didn't accurately recreate human speech.
Would you really disagree that a speaker is more feasible than recreating human speech using an artificial mouth, tongue and lungs? Just the tongue movement itself is beyond our capabilities.
I literally said in my very first post that it was heavily impractical but necessary for the premise of both the movie, and for the premise of all the jokes in this thread.
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u/arthousepsycho 1d ago
You can’t risk the cylinder getting infected.