Beau Gaston, founder of @satyressrobots, knows his robotic centaur with a goat's head that can use a chain saw might be a bit scary. That's the point. He says its appearance functions as “caution tape,” warning people to keep a healthy distance from a powerful machine. He argues humanoid robots can be more deceptively dangerous because their familiar appearance hides how much power is underneath: “Imagine if someone hooked 20 drill presses up, series-parallel, all together, and then used basically some arcane knowledge of machine learning to make it balance and walk. This is pretty much what a humanoid robot actually is.” “A humanoid itself looks tame, but in reality, it’s potentially incredibly dangerous to be around.”