They’re cool.
I like them but would suggest a minor design change: Make their “spine” and hips less organic, more mechanical.
I think part of the “uncanny valley” issue some people find off-putting is those are a bit “too human” - they need to look like a machine.
If I still had Adobe Illustrator handy I’d mock something up. In lieu of that, here’s a random image of a bipedal robot found online.
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That’s a lot of Boa dials on those shoes!
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I’ve acclimated to the new Robo pacer. It was off-putting initially. But I’m okay with it now.
You should run a survey on those additional ghost rider things. I don’t know about others, but I’ve had multiple friends who lost their lives while cycling. Each has a ghost bike where they fell. Zwift’s ghost rider thingys pain me greatly every time I see one. The extra one they’ve added just makes it worse.
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Switch off the thing you don’t like and you’ll never see it, Randy.
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Didn’t know I could switch off those things. Now I’ll go see if I can learn how to do this. Thanks.
Or from the home screen. Top right. 
Thanks for the help.
Better than Dan or Miguel 
Do you remember the time when we rode with Pace Partners and they actually looked as people, just with different color, e.g. blue ghost for Coco? Then Zwift rebranded them as RoboPacers and changed their visuals to look like robots.
Not sure how folks feel about it but I do not fancy the new visuals. They no longer feel as Ride Leaders who have a special status (color) but instead as bots who are riding with others. I find them less appealing and whenever I ask this during pace partner ride, there are several voices who feel the same.
Funny though, the titles of the rides with them still start with “Pace Group Ride: …”
This post is to ask the Zwift riders to see how many of you would prefer to make the pace partners switch back to the FutureWorks visuals, i.e. not look as robots but look as a ghost with color.
@Gerrie_Delport_ODZ : No offence but merging my post with this channel does not make sense. My post was under “Feature Requests” to see how many votes we can get. This current post is under “general discussion” and will effectively table any voting.
create a poll
- Keep Robo Pacers as is
- Revert to original design
0 voters
There is a poll.
EDIT: now we have another one.
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Create a poll and burry it in incorrect section of the forum .
They are effectively Group Rides, just led by a bot instead of a real person. So *Pacer Group Ride" doesn’t sound wrong to me.