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A video purportedly showing an amazingly human-like robot walking down a driveway began to go viral (along with expressions of robophobia and cyber-dystopianism) in mid-August 2018: Although many social media users reacted as if the clip demonstrated a Terminator-like cyborg were on the loose, the video actually featured a computer-generated character originally created for a series of short films from filmmaker Neill Blomkamp and Oats Studios. Blomkamp attempted to quell the internet's fears about a robot uprising and shared the first installment from the Adam series: The Adam films were created with an advanced CGI gaming engine called Unity. Although this character is certainly most well known for appearing in Blomkamp's films, it is also a downloadable asset, allowing other filmmakers and video game creators to place it in their own projects. The viral video of the human-like robot was created by film maker and VFX artist Maxim Sullivan and was originally posted to Twitter on 12 August 2018: In response to a question from Gizmodo reporter Matt Novak, Sullivan explained that he filmed the background with his phone and then added the Adam character in post:
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