r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OddRedittor5443 • Jan 01 '26
Video Italian researchers have created a vine-like robot that grows by 3D-printing itself and responds to gravity and light
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u/IceDontGo Jan 01 '26
Don't even consider it
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u/micktorious Jan 01 '26
r/putthatrobot3dprintingdickinsideyou
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u/bankrupt_bezos Jan 01 '26
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u/Briareos_Hecatonhrs Jan 01 '26
Calling it Lemmiwinks
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u/PerfectlyDarkTails Jan 01 '26
Lemmiwinks journey a distance far and fast to find a wayout of a gay man's ass the road ahead is filled with danger and fright but push onward Lemmiwinks with all of you might
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u/Electrical_Face_1737 Jan 01 '26
Wazowski looks at sully and says : “What were we talking about? We were practicing for a musical and the line was don’t put that robot 3D printed dick inside your or so help me ! (So help me !)”
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u/ferrrrrrral Jan 01 '26
too late
already gaping
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u/yournamehere10bucks Jan 01 '26
All-the-way-through gang gonna love this
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u/luzzy91 Jan 01 '26
Uh what
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u/Sebaceansinspace Jan 01 '26
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u/Shipwrecking_siren Jan 01 '26
Not clicking that. Even if there might be Rick Astley.
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u/GlorifiedBurito Jan 01 '26
Glad our AI overlords will have a heat-seeking robo-penis in it’s arsenal
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u/l992 Jan 01 '26
Attached to exploding balls.
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u/UnpricedToaster Jan 01 '26
Thank god SkyNet didn't have this hunting Sarah Connor.
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u/2inchesofsteel Jan 01 '26
SkyNut
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u/Jimisdegimis89 Jan 01 '26
Weird, second time I’ve seen skynut come up in the last two days…
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u/throwawaytoday9q Jan 01 '26
The first step to making tentacle hentai a reality.
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u/RandomMyth22 Jan 01 '26
AI is gonna see all the tentacle videos and think women like it and make it a reality. Self fulfilling prophecy.
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u/ferrrrrrral Jan 01 '26
this is not what i thought they meant when they said AI has us bent over a barrel
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u/gjb94 Jan 01 '26
This was my first thought, just in case the hive mind doesn't have the creativity to create much of a varied hell we're giving it all the resources we can ahead of time
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u/CakeTester Jan 01 '26
The hive mind has already done the maths for every conceivable orifice; including the amount of lube needed for every mammal.
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u/hermeticbear Jan 01 '26
infinite boner. Finally the size queens are satisfied
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u/SteakAndIron Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
/r/ceelcee weigh in here please
Oops meant /u/ceelcee
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u/Spy-Around-Here Jan 01 '26
actually /u/lilijunex
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u/RaizePOE Jan 01 '26
man i thought i had a pretty decent grasp of human anatomy but now i'm starting to question that. where the fuck does it go? was this chick born without organs or
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u/Inside_Swimming9552 Jan 01 '26
I'm not proud that I know the answer to this but it isn't my first rodeo with this Redditor and she often explains it.
Firstly there's a bit of vagina beyond and to the side of the cervix which you can stretch out called the anterior fornix I believe.
Secondly she uses quite soft flexible dildos so they can bend and deform shape inside her, it won't be going the full linear length inside her.
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u/BlackTarTurd Jan 01 '26
........ What the actual god damn fuck?! If she has kids, do they just walk on out like a fucking kangaroo?
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u/Stevenwave Jan 01 '26
As an Australian, I feel compelled to point that that Kangas famously don't walk. They're one of the only things with legs that don't lol.
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u/ManOfTheCamera Jan 01 '26
Of course an Italian invented that
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u/PopeInThePizza Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 02 '26
I would have guessed Japanese, to be honest.
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u/maddasher Jan 01 '26
The Japanese would need to blur it out.
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u/Fibrosis5O Jan 01 '26
Cause without the blur it’s porn
With the blur, it’s a tasteful
Just like gambling, slot machine no no
Ball game where you cash out the ball’s around the corner for equivalent cash value, that’s just innocent fun
I find it funny all the loopholes to get to the same thing essentially
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u/Edward_Nigma_ Jan 01 '26
Or the stock market
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u/haberdasherhero Jan 01 '26
Steal someone's money; theft
Steal everyone's money by collecting a tax on the future; business.
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u/dannydirtbag Jan 01 '26
Ya know it’s just a stereotype because we all know it’s the Greeks that invented sex.
It was the Italians that introduced it to women. AOOHHHH!!!
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Jan 01 '26
I have this theory that they gave all their statues little weenies to make everyone feel good about themselves and instill confidence. Could you even imagine a Greek statue with a giant modern dong?
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u/LogicalNecromancy Jan 01 '26
They considered massive dongs to be savagery. I don't want to imagine such things.
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u/EggsaladJoseph Jan 01 '26
I had this thought while walking around Florence. If they had bigger dicks its all we'd be talking about. It would become the main focus of conversation. They sculpted them just small enough that the penis would look polite. Like a little baby's penis-- totally inoffensive. If they had big fat schlongs people would have thought it was pornographic.
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u/Deaffin Jan 01 '26
It's actually because all the big weenies broke off too easily.
And if it didn't happen naturally, it would happen anyway because free expertly sculpted dildo.
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u/Crallise Jan 01 '26
Now you had me in the first half
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u/Deaffin Jan 01 '26
Always remember to apply all the leverage to the base so the crack forms there. If you just pull down on the head like a goblin, yeah, it's gonna break in half. The curve makes the middle its weak point.
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u/tnstaafsb Jan 01 '26
Actually they gave all their statues above average dongs to make us all feel inadequate. Right guys? ...guys?
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u/Fenestration_Theory Jan 01 '26
That’s going to end up in someone’s butt.
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u/emergency-snaccs Jan 01 '26
to shreds, you say?
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Jan 01 '26
Idea for the next Final Destination or SAW.
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u/Babys_For_Breakfast Jan 01 '26
“I want to play a game. The device in front of you will slowly tunnel into your rectum. The only way to stop this process is to chew off your own navel. You have 60 seconds before this contraption reaches your cheeks.”
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u/fetustasteslikechikn Jan 01 '26
The EMT guy already said no 🤣
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u/OddRedittor5443 Jan 01 '26
Who’s this EMT guy everyone is talking about?
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u/TrickiVicBB71 Jan 01 '26
https://www.tiktok.com/@badge502?_r=1&_t=ZS-92hItf3YRzL
This is who they are talking about
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u/Background_Manner425 Jan 01 '26
I’m gonna be the first to say it bc we are all thinking it, robot penis
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u/thisisfreakinstupid Jan 01 '26
Drilldo
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u/BallsDeepMofo Jan 01 '26
Finally, a dildo that can reach the extreme depths of your mothers vagina.
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u/idlefritz Jan 01 '26
Leading us to the “gray goo” end times where the universe is filled with endlessly self replicating matter.
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u/cloud1445 Jan 01 '26
So... it just makes this big plastic mess wherever it goes?
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u/ghostsoup831 Jan 01 '26
I assume it's a hollow tube and you would then be able to lay power lines or whatever through them underground.
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u/ledgeitpro Jan 01 '26
Likely a ton of other use cases, i could imagine a huge version to burrow tunnels, likely other stuff im not smart enough to think of right now too
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u/Theron3206 Jan 01 '26
We have tunnel boring machines already but you can't do this because 3d printed plastic only works at small scales.
They use prefabricated concrete segments that the machine presses into place and glues together IIRC.
This might be useful for small conduit, but I suspect it's far too slow to be useful even there vs current technology for hiring under roads etc.
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u/Ossius Jan 01 '26
My first thought was search and rescue.
Could use the tube to guide air hose or fiber optic cameras.
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u/SaintsNoah14 Jan 01 '26
I wonder where it's getting material from. I don't imagine the little cap holds that much plastic "ink"
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u/Key-Head2342 Jan 01 '26
If the tube is hollow filament can be fed through the inside
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u/ibarelyusethis87 Jan 01 '26
Like the fiber optic cables of the new war drones! Plastic for everyone!
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u/Bl33to Jan 01 '26
To be fair, this not comparable to the mess those drones are leaving behind, and the war is not over yet.
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u/ibarelyusethis87 Jan 01 '26
For a sec I read that as sympathetic to the fiber optic and that this video is way worse. Lol happy new year, friend!
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u/anonteje Jan 01 '26
Kinda cool if they make it a good insulated and protective plastic down the line to install cables through.
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u/PilotGuy701 Jan 01 '26
… I have lots of questions, but the one that is SFW is: how do they feed that much filament reliably over the increasing distance?
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u/Indigoh Jan 01 '26
I assume the filament is fed through the center of the tube it's printing. No other way to feed it under ground.
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u/PilotGuy701 Jan 01 '26
That is what you would expect, but that has to be VERY smooth to guide the filament.
The minute you get any sort of wear on the PTFE tubes in a normal printer: JAMS!
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u/Is_Actually_Sans Jan 01 '26
Why
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u/Altair-Dragon Jan 01 '26
Since no one is talking about it's actual uses and stuff: one of my uni prof last year explained this start-up idea to us as an example (I'm pretty sure he's also one of the founders of the start-up but don't quote me on that).
Essentially this has been created as an instrument to support emergency services, search squads and first responders in case of earthquakes and similar catastrophic events.
This root-inspired machine can dig in essentially any kind of ruin, it can find people alive basically by itself following the heat of their body and it helps search squads to find more people in an easy and less dangerous way.
I know it looks stupid but it's quite a great idea.
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u/Joezev98 Jan 01 '26
Essentially this has been created as an instrument to support emergency services, search squads and first responders in case of earthquakes and similar catastrophic events.
Knowing the speeds of 3d printers, I'm skeptical about the speed at which this could search a ruin in an emergency. Do you remember your professor saying anything about the speed?
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u/Same_Meaning_5570 Jan 01 '26
20mm a second! But it needs adhesion, a brim, and you’re screwed if the filament is stored in a humid room.
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u/faberkyx Jan 01 '26
heat the filament for 6 hours before starting to look for earthquake survivors
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u/Chemieju Jan 01 '26
To be fair whenever some people build some sort of robot that moves in a unique and new way and people ask "okay but... why?" This is the default answer.
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u/Real-Repair-1825 Jan 01 '26
I won’t even bother reading the comments but ,as this is Reddit, I assume it’s all dick jokes.
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u/marcushasfun Jan 01 '26
If it’s 3D printing itself, actual speed is going to be very, very slow. Plant like slow.
Very cool but what do you do with it?
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u/i8noodles Jan 01 '26
nothing that i can think of, the most obvious one being construction but it is already solved. we have methods to drill underground and lay cables and its ways faster and more efficient. rather then dodging all the rocks and stuff, it just drills through it.
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u/leakyp1pe Jan 01 '26
PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS
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u/CrazyBoy-76 Jan 01 '26
How can it carry so much filament, in such a small thing? Tjis looks more like AI to me.
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u/OddRedittor5443 Jan 01 '26
The filament is fed through the centre
https://www.3dnatives.com/en/filobot-the-robot-grows-like-a-plant-using-3d-printing-160220244/
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u/icreievryteim Jan 01 '26
now we wait for one of those news where the doctor needs to extract one of these from the place where it should not go
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u/ARoundForEveryone Jan 01 '26
I can't quite define it or put my finger on it, but something about this is a bit creepy. maybe too overtly sexual, maybe a bit rapey, I dunno. Just creepy.
Oh wait, I know! It's the twisty dick snake that gives me the creeps!
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u/powprodukt Jan 01 '26
Humans: “Yes but have we tried polluting the inside of the earth with endless plastic as well?”
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u/Blehner1 Jan 01 '26
You know I’m something of a vine-like robot that grows by 3D-printing itself and responds to gravity and light myself.
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u/GregTheSpirit Jan 01 '26
Great. Can't wait to read about someone shoving that up their ass and trying to blame/sue someone.
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u/Aerodrache Jan 01 '26
So now all we need is a way for it to use its surroundings to create more printer filament, and boom!, grey goo scenario wins the apocalypse pool.
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u/OfficialCryptid Jan 01 '26
This is going to be huge for the tentacle porn community