Edward Warchocki was designed as a real-world deployment test combining Chinese manufacturing with local software customization — a marketing-forward experiment placing a humanoid in a human-and-avatar space. What the experiment could not control was the interpretive layer that formed around the footage once it escaped its original context. The boars ignoring the robot, the skateboard, the jogging gait — each detail that made the clip entertaining also made it legible as a demonstration of capability rather than spectacle. The warfare-framing commenter was not arguing from the MERA Robotics press materials;…