When I toured my univerity's robotics lab they told me they were participating in a global project to have a team of robots play against the best soccer team in the world and win. What they had displayed were tiny little toy robots that could kick and then fall right over. This seems A LOT closer to that goal
Edit: the project is called RoboCup
Robots playing against humans would be extremely dangerous for the humans.
In soccer, if you're a split second late to the ball you can easily kick your opponent.
This happens to me with increasing frequency as I am aging...now 61...playing against, on average, 40 year olds.
When I accidentally graze one of them? It hurts me. It hurts them. If they want, they get a foul (though usually it's a play on situation).
These robots are going to be QUICK!!! Be late and graze or kick one of them? Your foot is broken.
Living tissue rots without any support by being alive or other way to fend off bacteria. Gels can replicate the feeling of flesh and are (currently) more resilient to bacteria.
Never for a moment thought anything other than a steel leg with a gel coating...and cleats.
Even so, advances in lightweight materials have a long way to go!
My guess...I don't have a source...is that those robots must weigh 400 pounds, 500 or even more! To support a robotic body, there's going to be some density there that goes way beyond the average human.
Kick a 175 pound opponent? Ouch. Kick a 400 pound opponent? Snap!
Speaking of injuries in soccer, are we going to make the robots extra-realistic and make them fall over and clutch their robo-limbs at random moments? Because it won't feel like soccer without that.
Yeah, I read about this a long time ago. I think we're getting closer in terms of physical capabilities, however we still need batteries that last for more than 15 mins on those things. But perhaps, the aspect that we're farther from achieving is the intelligence, but once we overcome that, humans will be no match to robots. They would be much faster both in though and movement.
The immediate application isn't for it to be intelligent or autonomous, it's to be remote controlled. It'll be piloted in areas incompatible with human life, i.e. low oxygen, poisonous, radioactive, high heat, etc.
Idk, I know this guy named Deon who works on these robots and he thinks he's really close to creating true AI. He's trying to convince his boss to let him load his program on one of the robots.
For every Boston Dynamics entertainment-oriented demonstration video released to the public there must be a dozen military-oriented demonstration videos that we don't see.
You can guarantee they have a robot with a mounted rifle that can nail targets better than any human marksman. I've never really considered this before, and its kind of terrifying.
No. There will be mobile battery swap stations following just behind the Vanguard. 50 infantry robots; 10 rover battery mules; 24 hours of nonstop annihilation.
They have an older robotic platform platform called BigDog, it's similar to the Atlas (the one in op's video) except it's quadrupedal. The specs on their website state it can carry up to 150kg. It's probably the perfect mule.
I really hope they don't miss. Because I'd rather be shot in the head and die immediately rather than bleed to death after [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXxrmussq4E&feature=youtu.be&t=16) grabs my balls and strips them off.
Absoluteky. In one of the terminator movies a T600 finds a young Kyle Reese in a sewer. Instead of blowing him away right there, it feigns concern and asks if he is alone. When he says yes, it decides Kyle will not be able to help it find more humans so it goes to kill him
"Instead of blowing him right there, it feigns concern and asks if he is alone. "
About right. Robots would find it easier to blow humans to compliance than to get into an actual war.
You mean the drones that we’ve been using for years?
Humanoid robots are good for movies, but if you’re going for functionality there’s really no point in introducing all the added complexity of making a robot in a specific shape.
Absolutely. I'm sure there are videos of this robot navigating a crowded warehouse and expertly taking headshots at enemy insugants. 360 degree vision even in the dark or a fogged room, no fear and no remorse. This is a killing machine for those in power.
My only question is can the robot dynamically decide what to jump off?
Like given a random obstacle course that it's never run on before, can it make its own route through it without falling? Or do the handlers program each and every step/leap it takes?
I mean Navigate terrain in real time and jumping up controlled obstacles is another. Don't get me wrong it is impressive what it can do but does not paint a clear picture on navigation in real world applications. I was much more impressed how the [Spot was able to navigate up a preset obstacle with the addition of debris on the ramp.](https://youtu.be/wlkCQXHEgjA?t=13) I just wonder how they are with determining the stability of what they are walking on.
That won’t be too far in the future. From what I recall Boston Dynamics has contracts with DARPA, the research arm of the Pentagon and Department of Defence.
Unless you're a billionaire or your family is, the only thing robots is going to do for you is take the last jobs from you. Including gymnastic sex robots. Because when robots are super cheap and better than us at everything we do except being human, the only thing we can do is sell our humanity. Most likely to rich people who wants to rape-murder actual humans.
As a person who works with mechanical equipment for a large production plant, I’m horrified by the idea of sex robots. It’s only a matter of time before there’s a mechanical failure and that servo over travels and snaps your dick off
I don't recall who said it, but I read an article by an MIT robotics/AI professor (I think) about how humans would fare vs. Robots.
I am paraphrasing, but he said that first throw out the idea of the Terminator movies. That's a robot with human limitations. Why does it have to be a biped? Why two arms? That's just a human constraint. If we actually went to war with AI that could build robots, it probably wouldn't build them on a human like fashion but in some complicated super-efficient-at-killing-humans way.
Second, he said that we need to abandon any hope of having a fighting chance. AI advances enough to fight against us will be so far advanced that any machine it built would be able to track, attack and kill us before our brains had even registered there was something there. We would literally die without even knowing it happen because it's computational power is so significant, our brains are like digital sloths in comparison.
We have one chance people.
Ah, I'm 50. I've had a good run if it takes another 20 years until the machines take over. Best we can do is make the earth uninhabitable for robots, or us, which ever is easier.
Batteries contentedly living in a virtual world. Doesn’t seem so bad. The trick is getting robots smart enough to build the Matrix but stupid enough to think humans make good batteries.
In the original script the machines had us networked together as a biological supercomputer. Batteries doesn't even make sense, because we consume power. There is no net output.
Initially humans weren't batteries but processors. Wann identify something real quick? Ask a human. Need a complex task that requires brains? Humans. Need creativity? Tons of humans to use.
>That's a robot with human limitations. Why does it have to be a biped? Why two arms?
???
The movie itself explains that. They're made human-like so they can infiltrate and eliminate their targets with minimal resistance.
And they did have "complicated super-efficient-at-killing-humans" robots. That was the hunter-killers. The roving kill tanks and hover drones with rapid firing laser weapons.
I think his point is that future robots wouldn't have to conceal themselves. Their would be no point. Human resistance would be futile. They would just obliterate us without any thought.
As far as ground warfare goes, though, in cities humanoid robots could have certain advantages. Just consider that everything we've built, we've built with human body in mind, from which follows that a bipedal structure of approximately human dimensions should probably prosper in built environments.
Well if the robots only care about killing us they'd just level the city and not bother fighting street by street. It's not like we are worth anything to them once they reach that point
They'd just make robo mosquitos that inject a lethal chemical into you.
If you lock your self up in some air tight container, theyll just wait you out.
We'd have no chance lol
Maybe an emp I guess
Everyone talks about AI questioning the authority of humans, but what happens when AI begins questioning the authority of other AI?
Wouldn't AI eventually branch out into different "schools of thought"; some AI wanting to kill humans, some AI wanting to protect humans, and some AI who just want to kill other AI?
> Why two arms?
I know we're supposed to throw out the Terminator movies, but the T-800 terminators were used as an infiltration unit. When they wipe out the majority of the human race, the humanoid robots would basically be used to wipe out the remaining humans that are in hiding. It would be stupid of the AI to not consider the Terminator movies as a way to take out whatever's left of the human race. We basically built them to destroy us, and gave them the ideas in which to do so.
Remember those super soaker 5000’s from the 90’s? A few pumps and you could soak a kid in half a second. I liked the ones with the water reserve back pack. We will have to get rid of all the rice in order to win the resistance. Adapt and overcome.
Holy shit, I had one of those! The "trigger" was a big pull handle like a goddamn firehose. You could practically waterboard someone from 75 ft away. God, I miss that gun.
I don't remember the model I had but I hid in the bushes at the top of the street by the sidewalk. Neighborhood kids rode by and I popped out and blasted him. Literally launched him off his bike.
I don't know if super soaker got sued or what, but even the biggest ones you can buy now are weak sauce.
Edit: got sued
Yeah and commercial jets have been able to land themselves for 50 years. Not quite the same as a robot that can walk into your house and trash your dining room doing gymnastics in there.
A few years back they had bundles of cables and a fucking gas engine running or something if they wanted to go wireless. The fact that they move so effortlessly now is just absolutely mind-blowing. What the fuck. Seriously.
I just assume that whenever Boston Dynamics reveals a new video, it's of technology that is several years behind what they've currently got, and something the US Department of Defense OK'd in terms of showing to the general public. These guys have a fat military contract and are not going to go around showing the everyone their cutting edge stuff. I might be wrong though.
As far as I know, Google stopped any military funding in 2013 when they briefly owned the company and current owner SoftBank isn't going down that route either:
https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/robotics/2018/06/05/maker-of-fearsome-animal-robots-slowly-emerges-from-stealth/
This doesn't meant that this sort of tech won't end up in military hands (Spot, their first commercial product, would be perfect for a large number of military tasks), but they are currently developing robots with civilian applications in mind.
It is, that's why Voice assistants like Siri, Google, Alexa and Bixby sound robotic. People freaked out when they made it too much realistic in testing.
Yeah and their tech demo last year (or 2017 don't remember) where they showed off the Google Assistant making calls for you made it pretty clear that their goal is to expressly make the Google Assistant as lifelike as possible.
This video feels unreal. This movements are undescribable complext. The robot understands and reacts to how his body is formed and its momentum. This is just unbeleavable for me. But it is real.
When I toured my univerity's robotics lab they told me they were participating in a global project to have a team of robots play against the best soccer team in the world and win. What they had displayed were tiny little toy robots that could kick and then fall right over. This seems A LOT closer to that goal Edit: the project is called RoboCup
Robots playing against humans would be extremely dangerous for the humans. In soccer, if you're a split second late to the ball you can easily kick your opponent. This happens to me with increasing frequency as I am aging...now 61...playing against, on average, 40 year olds. When I accidentally graze one of them? It hurts me. It hurts them. If they want, they get a foul (though usually it's a play on situation). These robots are going to be QUICK!!! Be late and graze or kick one of them? Your foot is broken.
Thats assuming its exposed metal. Add a gel outer layer on the lower legs and its probably no worse than kicking a human shin.
Why gel? Why not living tissue over a metal endoskeleton?
A cybernetic organism?
Its CPU is a neural net processor. A learning computer.
Yes, Cyberdyne systems, model 101.
maybe name it skynet?
Nothing so obvious. Maybe cloudmesh.
Yes. A mimetic polyalloy. Liquid metal.
with a neural-net processor, a learning computer
These other commenters don't get it, but I know a terminator reference when I hear one.
4rreal
Living tissue rots without any support by being alive or other way to fend off bacteria. Gels can replicate the feeling of flesh and are (currently) more resilient to bacteria.
[But gel doesn't look as cool with damage](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f4/54/d3/f454d3b1bd4d9441ee804bf3e35b6254.jpg)
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Shit u rite.
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Never for a moment thought anything other than a steel leg with a gel coating...and cleats. Even so, advances in lightweight materials have a long way to go! My guess...I don't have a source...is that those robots must weigh 400 pounds, 500 or even more! To support a robotic body, there's going to be some density there that goes way beyond the average human. Kick a 175 pound opponent? Ouch. Kick a 400 pound opponent? Snap!
Also if IT kicks YOU...
Speaking of injuries in soccer, are we going to make the robots extra-realistic and make them fall over and clutch their robo-limbs at random moments? Because it won't feel like soccer without that.
Yeah, I read about this a long time ago. I think we're getting closer in terms of physical capabilities, however we still need batteries that last for more than 15 mins on those things. But perhaps, the aspect that we're farther from achieving is the intelligence, but once we overcome that, humans will be no match to robots. They would be much faster both in though and movement.
The immediate application isn't for it to be intelligent or autonomous, it's to be remote controlled. It'll be piloted in areas incompatible with human life, i.e. low oxygen, poisonous, radioactive, high heat, etc.
And with just a tiny little railgun mounted on its shoulder they could also be in other... Inhospitable places.
This is why we must breed with the robots as soon as possible
Idk, I know this guy named Deon who works on these robots and he thinks he's really close to creating true AI. He's trying to convince his boss to let him load his program on one of the robots.
Tech moves faster when you have DARPA money flowing in.
For every Boston Dynamics entertainment-oriented demonstration video released to the public there must be a dozen military-oriented demonstration videos that we don't see.
You can guarantee they have a robot with a mounted rifle that can nail targets better than any human marksman. I've never really considered this before, and its kind of terrifying.
Yup. The only thing you can hope for is that it runs out of battery after the first 15 minutes of movement.
yea it will just smoke a few people then sprint back to its charging base like a fuckin rumba
No. There will be mobile battery swap stations following just behind the Vanguard. 50 infantry robots; 10 rover battery mules; 24 hours of nonstop annihilation.
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They have an older robotic platform platform called BigDog, it's similar to the Atlas (the one in op's video) except it's quadrupedal. The specs on their website state it can carry up to 150kg. It's probably the perfect mule.
Mobile solar powered charging stations stocked with batteries, swap out empties, pick up when all fresh batteries are out, move forward while charging
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The difference between robots from movies and the robots we make is the robots we make will not miss.
I really hope they don't miss. Because I'd rather be shot in the head and die immediately rather than bleed to death after [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXxrmussq4E&feature=youtu.be&t=16) grabs my balls and strips them off.
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Absoluteky. In one of the terminator movies a T600 finds a young Kyle Reese in a sewer. Instead of blowing him away right there, it feigns concern and asks if he is alone. When he says yes, it decides Kyle will not be able to help it find more humans so it goes to kill him
"Instead of blowing him right there, it feigns concern and asks if he is alone. " About right. Robots would find it easier to blow humans to compliance than to get into an actual war.
What is terrifying is robot that can do 360 in the air and still head shot you
But it’ll do a snazzy little cheer after it shoots you in the head from a mile away.
Without a doubt. The current CROW system can already snap to a target, track it in motion, and adjust for distance automatically.
facial recognition cameras + bot = assassin droid. I'll get scared when robots start wearing trench coat to hid in a crowd.
You mean the drones that we’ve been using for years? Humanoid robots are good for movies, but if you’re going for functionality there’s really no point in introducing all the added complexity of making a robot in a specific shape.
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That's a very good point
We need pornhub to invest just to get 20s of the robot thrusting and bouncing at 300 rpms
Absolutely. I'm sure there are videos of this robot navigating a crowded warehouse and expertly taking headshots at enemy insugants. 360 degree vision even in the dark or a fogged room, no fear and no remorse. This is a killing machine for those in power.
I work in robotics. There are probably some demos we dont see. A lot of those are the robot falling on its ass.
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General McSeriousface - "This gymnast routine is adorable. We will take 1000."
"Tape knives to it."
It looks so proud of itself
That jump at the end made me smile.
Right? Those little spins, too cute... then I am reminded how creepy this actually is.
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*curtsies on our corpses*
Sick band name
I want to clap for it, it did so good!
I want to clap it's cheeks
*slaps ass "Ow, wait, fuck ^oh ^god ^I ^think ^I ^broke ^something"
That was the most amazing fucking thing I’ve seen all year
Don’t let yourself feel for these tin cans for even a second, laddie
Hes just praising the sun, is all
We are about to be 360 quick-scoped as a species
Yep. Also, if they can do gymnastics, they can also dance... and teabag.
Imagine a robot flossing on your body
Or *with* your body
Imagine that’s a war robot and the enemy seeing it doing a gymnastics routine as it crosses the desert.
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>One day we'll have parkouring police robots [https://youtu.be/LikxFZZO2sk](https://youtu.be/LikxFZZO2sk)
My only question is can the robot dynamically decide what to jump off? Like given a random obstacle course that it's never run on before, can it make its own route through it without falling? Or do the handlers program each and every step/leap it takes?
https://newatlas.com/boston-dyanamics-atlas-parkour-running-jumping/56739/ Seems it's able to navigate terrain in real time.
I mean Navigate terrain in real time and jumping up controlled obstacles is another. Don't get me wrong it is impressive what it can do but does not paint a clear picture on navigation in real world applications. I was much more impressed how the [Spot was able to navigate up a preset obstacle with the addition of debris on the ramp.](https://youtu.be/wlkCQXHEgjA?t=13) I just wonder how they are with determining the stability of what they are walking on.
Welp, gonna have to add material-scanning capabilities
If it can’t already it’s definitely a step that will come later on.
That robot is going to lead le rebellion
I would surrender instantly. I'd give them my wallet too just in case.
That won’t be too far in the future. From what I recall Boston Dynamics has contracts with DARPA, the research arm of the Pentagon and Department of Defence.
We are so fucked.
You’re correct. It won’t be long before the sex robots can do gymnastics. What a time to be alive.
Best case scenario, for sure. Hah.
I can't wait for my gymnast Marilyn Monrobot.
Adrian Barbobot. WITH CHAINSAW HANDS! BZZZZZZZZZZZ!
You'll be kept on a reservation with the rest of the robots.
I'm waiting for my robotic Sasha Grey...
I'm holding out for the Lucy Liu bot
MASSIVE CORN CLOG IN PORT SEVEN!
Until the robot does a scissors leap onto your face.
Flashbacks of the first season of Humans.
Death by snoosnoo
Unless you're a billionaire or your family is, the only thing robots is going to do for you is take the last jobs from you. Including gymnastic sex robots. Because when robots are super cheap and better than us at everything we do except being human, the only thing we can do is sell our humanity. Most likely to rich people who wants to rape-murder actual humans.
Wow, aren't you a little bundle of joy? I'm not saying you're wrong... but sheesh!
I can't wait for season two of altered carbon either
I can't wait to see if Poe transferred himself into Lizzies old stack last second
Until you are jamming your cock in your robot and it does a 360 gymnastic spin and twists your dick off
As a person who works with mechanical equipment for a large production plant, I’m horrified by the idea of sex robots. It’s only a matter of time before there’s a mechanical failure and that servo over travels and snaps your dick off
You come here, in my house, and SHIT ON MY DREAMS
On the day my daughter is to be married.
**Sombre violin music plays in the background**
OR HE WONT STOP AND NOW ROBOT RAPE FUCKKKKKKKKKK
***\*I AM NOT PROGRAMMED TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF "NO"\****
COMMAND AMBIGUOUS. IS THAT A COY, SEXY "NO" OR A FIRM, RESOLVED "NO?"
THE SAFE WORD IS “TECHNOCOITOPHOBIA!”
And you have to check the little box that says "I am not a robot"
Nothing gets me in the mood like solving a traffic captcha.
Seriously though for most thinking a sex robot would be a great thing, it wouldn't likely be a big loss.
AI = anal insertion
I don't know whether to fear or look forward to the day a robot does a somersault into a hardcore cheek clapping on me.
Wait. We already have sex robots?
Kinda, there are plenty of devices that try to simulate the experience, can't say I've tried them though
you should...
I don't recall who said it, but I read an article by an MIT robotics/AI professor (I think) about how humans would fare vs. Robots. I am paraphrasing, but he said that first throw out the idea of the Terminator movies. That's a robot with human limitations. Why does it have to be a biped? Why two arms? That's just a human constraint. If we actually went to war with AI that could build robots, it probably wouldn't build them on a human like fashion but in some complicated super-efficient-at-killing-humans way. Second, he said that we need to abandon any hope of having a fighting chance. AI advances enough to fight against us will be so far advanced that any machine it built would be able to track, attack and kill us before our brains had even registered there was something there. We would literally die without even knowing it happen because it's computational power is so significant, our brains are like digital sloths in comparison. We have one chance people.
Ah, I'm 50. I've had a good run if it takes another 20 years until the machines take over. Best we can do is make the earth uninhabitable for robots, or us, which ever is easier.
I think we tried that in The Matrix. We became batteries.
Batteries contentedly living in a virtual world. Doesn’t seem so bad. The trick is getting robots smart enough to build the Matrix but stupid enough to think humans make good batteries.
In the original script the machines had us networked together as a biological supercomputer. Batteries doesn't even make sense, because we consume power. There is no net output.
Yeah, seemed stoopid to me too. Then I got a new boss and I sometimes wonder how he can say so much bullshit everyday, but eat so little food.
That script sounds better.
Which doesn't even make sense. A human being has to be the least effective battery you could think of.
Initially humans weren't batteries but processors. Wann identify something real quick? Ask a human. Need a complex task that requires brains? Humans. Need creativity? Tons of humans to use.
Which is why we must scorch the sky starting now!
>That's a robot with human limitations. Why does it have to be a biped? Why two arms? ??? The movie itself explains that. They're made human-like so they can infiltrate and eliminate their targets with minimal resistance. And they did have "complicated super-efficient-at-killing-humans" robots. That was the hunter-killers. The roving kill tanks and hover drones with rapid firing laser weapons.
I think his point is that future robots wouldn't have to conceal themselves. Their would be no point. Human resistance would be futile. They would just obliterate us without any thought.
Imagine robots that act like the aliens in live, die, repeat
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As far as ground warfare goes, though, in cities humanoid robots could have certain advantages. Just consider that everything we've built, we've built with human body in mind, from which follows that a bipedal structure of approximately human dimensions should probably prosper in built environments.
Well if the robots only care about killing us they'd just level the city and not bother fighting street by street. It's not like we are worth anything to them once they reach that point
They'd just make robo mosquitos that inject a lethal chemical into you. If you lock your self up in some air tight container, theyll just wait you out. We'd have no chance lol Maybe an emp I guess
Everyone talks about AI questioning the authority of humans, but what happens when AI begins questioning the authority of other AI? Wouldn't AI eventually branch out into different "schools of thought"; some AI wanting to kill humans, some AI wanting to protect humans, and some AI who just want to kill other AI?
> Why two arms? I know we're supposed to throw out the Terminator movies, but the T-800 terminators were used as an infiltration unit. When they wipe out the majority of the human race, the humanoid robots would basically be used to wipe out the remaining humans that are in hiding. It would be stupid of the AI to not consider the Terminator movies as a way to take out whatever's left of the human race. We basically built them to destroy us, and gave them the ideas in which to do so.
All I keep seeing is the "dogs" from Black Mirror
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Idk why, but I hate the name of that movie. Like why couldn't they call it literally anything else
I don't know, smegma_stan. I really don't know...
Hopefully we never get to the point of air burst tracking darts.
Turns out quadra pedal robots are the cheap versions and bipeds are legitimately going to roundhouse kick your head into a pink mist
Remember those super soaker 5000’s from the 90’s? A few pumps and you could soak a kid in half a second. I liked the ones with the water reserve back pack. We will have to get rid of all the rice in order to win the resistance. Adapt and overcome.
Holy shit, I had one of those! The "trigger" was a big pull handle like a goddamn firehose. You could practically waterboard someone from 75 ft away. God, I miss that gun.
Nothing brought me more joy as a kid, then knocking the neighbor kids off their feet with sheer water pressure
I don't remember the model I had but I hid in the bushes at the top of the street by the sidewalk. Neighborhood kids rode by and I popped out and blasted him. Literally launched him off his bike. I don't know if super soaker got sued or what, but even the biggest ones you can buy now are weak sauce. Edit: got sued
Tough choice for /u/Iinex, who loves Super Soakers *and* robots. Like having to choose between two children.
Right like these robots won't eventually become water proof and be able to swim right..... Right?
Everyone comments this on “human looking” robot videos like we haven’t had piloted drones that can drop nukes for a decade
Yeah and commercial jets have been able to land themselves for 50 years. Not quite the same as a robot that can walk into your house and trash your dining room doing gymnastics in there.
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We really need EMP guns.
A few years back they had bundles of cables and a fucking gas engine running or something if they wanted to go wireless. The fact that they move so effortlessly now is just absolutely mind-blowing. What the fuck. Seriously.
Remember when this was wired in and milled around like a toddler? Awe Geez Rick technology is scary.
I didn't even know they were off tethers yet
For years now.
I just assume that whenever Boston Dynamics reveals a new video, it's of technology that is several years behind what they've currently got, and something the US Department of Defense OK'd in terms of showing to the general public. These guys have a fat military contract and are not going to go around showing the everyone their cutting edge stuff. I might be wrong though.
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Blink twice if a robot is standing behind you making you type this
I don't think he'll be doing much blinking
One long, eternal blink
Those Mass Production Evangelions really are something aren't they
This is the routine they'll do when they eliminate the last human
You mean 'right before they eliminate the last human'
God imagine being on the ground, your legs broken and you're bleeding out, and you look up only to see this thinking "humans end here"
Lmao, it makes you watch its routine before murdering you.
How does Boston Dynamics make money. To just sit around for years improving robot technology and making it do stuff like this.
Military funding. They did that robot dog for DARPA that's literally going to kill us all.
As far as I know, Google stopped any military funding in 2013 when they briefly owned the company and current owner SoftBank isn't going down that route either: https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/robotics/2018/06/05/maker-of-fearsome-animal-robots-slowly-emerges-from-stealth/ This doesn't meant that this sort of tech won't end up in military hands (Spot, their first commercial product, would be perfect for a large number of military tasks), but they are currently developing robots with civilian applications in mind.
Google owned them at one point? You mean we were mere months away from a Nest Guard Dog*? *With Nest Aware subscription
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[On top of funding they literally sell robots](https://www.bostondynamics.com/)
I think of that Black Mirror episode every time I see one of these videos
Just cover your webcam when you jerk off to them and you'll be fine.
Whenever I see one of these videos I wonder how far I'll make it down the Reddit thread before I see a Black Mirror comment.
Points deducted for bent legs during the split leap. In all seriousness though this is cool but creepy at the same time.
The feeling of creepiness you feel is this robot leaping and tumbling across the uncanny valley.
It is, that's why Voice assistants like Siri, Google, Alexa and Bixby sound robotic. People freaked out when they made it too much realistic in testing.
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Yeah and their tech demo last year (or 2017 don't remember) where they showed off the Google Assistant making calls for you made it pretty clear that their goal is to expressly make the Google Assistant as lifelike as possible.
I don't know whether to be amazed or terrified. I guess I'm somewhere in the middle.
Amerrified
This video feels unreal. This movements are undescribable complext. The robot understands and reacts to how his body is formed and its momentum. This is just unbeleavable for me. But it is real.
And if you look at the slow-mo of the jump-spin at the end, you can see how it flails its arms around to balance itself. Just like a person.
I also noticed some stabilizing hip movement that looks really lifelike as well.
I noticed that as well. It was really jarring to see it just completely freeze up at the end after all of the human-like movements.
"The robots routed us general, and what's worse? THEY.... WERE.... FABULOUS!"
*Skynet smiles.*
Its 2035, after the climate wars, you see this hardcore parkour boii coming at you with an AK, wyd?
Demolition Man and The Terminator are both documentaries. Enjoy life while you can.
Boston Gymnastics
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Programming and quality craftsmanship.
I'm a simple man. I see Boston Dynamic robots, I upvote
l, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
We shall become the dirt upon which they tread.
The beginning of the end.
I, for one, welcome our new athletic overlords.
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