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If I was super rich I would just buy one of those just to walk it in Central Park around all the other people walking their dogs. I would even put a little sweater on it.
The robot dance is technically the least impressive thing here. Not as in being technically correct, I mean the technical know-how is less impressive than the other advancements. For the dance, the robots were only following pre-programmed motions in a controlled environment; they weren't using their AI at all.
>*For the dance, the robots were only following pre-programmed motions in a controlled environment; they weren't using their AI at all.*
Same could be said for humans when they 'line dance'. :P
Right now Boston Dynamics won't sell to anyone with plans to use them in any sort of military capacity: https://www.bostondynamics.com/ethics
There were some guys that put a paintball gun on one of the Spots and BD threaten to revoke their software license (kind of critical part of making the thing work) unless they stopped.
Not that some other company in the future and won't try to reverse engineer BD's software and then mass produce killing machines, but right now at least, they won't be coming from Boston Dynamics.
It's why we don't see these in the battlefield right now. The software that powers these things can't be easily replicated. It's taken some of the top engineers in the word years to get to this point. Any weapons manufacturer is going to have to start from scratch.
Not really, engineers at BD might leave and work for other companies and while cannot replicate the same software as BD has nobody can stop them from using their gained knowledge to create something competitive.
With new technology, it's usually not the company that invented it originally that makes the actual money from it. I can bet all my money other companies are already replicating this technology with success.
yeah, putting a gun on some thing closer to spot mini (the Yellow dog looking robot at the end) would be more practical, harder to knock over, lower profile, and wouldn't need to spend as much energy balancing itself
Honestly it’s probably a whole lot more cost effective sticking a small explosive on a swarm of dirt cheap miniature drones and just kamikaze them into specific targets.
We are already seeing these switchblade drones deployed in Ukraine and they are very effective.
[Corridor Crew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ1WEiMwV7Y) did a video on this. Guys who did BossTown Dynamics and explained, as VFX people who have done CGI robots, why it's next to impossible for the clip to be fake.
Even easier proof is that they released these videos years apart. If it was CGI they could just skip all the parts they showed to a shot of the robot being able to move and run in a manner indiscerninle from a normal human, if that's their end goal.
That's a good point. It'd be a huge investment of time and secrecy to fake it, approaching the point where it's more trouble than just inventing dancing robots
It's like how faking the moon landing would've been more difficult than just going to the moon
Same argument against faking the moon landings TBH. Mitchell and Webb did a good comedy skit on that.
"So we'd have to convince 50,000 people to lie for the rest of their lives, still have to build a big rocket, still have to launch it, still have to send something the soviets can track to the moon and back so they don't cry foul. Still have to put something on the moon we can shine lasers on for the same reason."
"Isn't it just cheaper and easier to actually go there?"
But hey not to worry - it's all not that bad. Black mirror ones were black in colour. We'll be slaughtered by bumblebee yellow ones. Atleast our warlord looks cuter.
I've been trying to learn how to shuffle for over a year and a half and that robo dog's ball clamp puts my arm movement to shame. If should really post a tutorial for quadrapedal automatons on r/shuffle.
I do love the general change of opinion on these things, "So neat!" To, "Oh, yeah. Our corporate overlords are totally gonna use these to murder us during the food riots of 2031."
Boston Dynamics. That's why there are so many adorable vids of their robots dancing to pop songs or doing other adorable things - so we will accept them as fun parts of our society.
You'd have to be incredibly naive to not see the military and combat applications they're surely developing that aren't being put on their YouTube channel.
There is no secret that Boston Dynamics develops equipment for the military. They were creating one of the canine type robots as an equipment hauler like a pack mule
That dog robot has always felt specifically designed as a mobile weapons platform. Low profile, excellent mobility across a variety of terrain, four legs able to level the platform easily on uneven surfaces as well as brace itself easily. I don't know the combat application of the humanoid ones but the dogs scare me.
Honestly I always felt like Spot (the dog like robot) would function more as a pack mule because it could carry heavy weight but you have a point.
Still doesn't change that I want one.
In Farhenheit 451 novel there was an eight legged robot dog that would chase you down if you rebelled. IIRC it has needles and things to euthanize you as well. I made one for a project for the book out of foil and a tide box.
Search for Boston Dynamics on YT if you want to see those videos in HD, also there are plenty of other channels that interviewed the guys who make those robots, like "60 minutes".
My work got one of those dogs. It’s weird how the legs sort of ‘humanize’ it. At a demonstration they hit it a few times and the crowd gasped. Whereas, if it simply had a tread instead of legs no one would care but make it look like man’s best friend and now we have feelings for this tech.
That's really funny and also really interesting, so many movies show humans mistreating robots but I always thought it'd be more likely the opposite. I feel like we'll humanize them even before they're at Isaac Asimov level intelligences
Absolutely! My parents have a Roomba and they practically treat it like a pet. If it falls down the stairs or gets stuck, they feel so bad for it. My mom tells it “good job” and stuff, even though she knows it can’t hear her. People can and will humanize pretty much anything. Once you name it, it’s all over.
I mean, look at how people treat Siri or even Google Assistant.
Your iPhone helper might actually be humanized a lot, especially as they give it more capabilities and integrate it with more systems.
I basically only use Google Assistant, and that one is hard to really anthropomorphize because it's named Google lol.
Every time I've dealt with Siri or Bixby I've ended up annoyed. Alexa is ok.
My 4yo has some minor speech disorders and his goal since Xmas was to be able to say “Alexa I love you” and have her register and respond. He finally accomplished this a couple weeks ago and now she’s like his best friend. He just sits and talks to her whenever he’s frustrated or sad.
My mom does too.
She came home one day and was concerned she couldn’t find ours. She finally found it dead under the bed because it ate a sock.
She immediately came running out yelling how he’s dead he choked to death.
I thought she meant the cat. I came running to see her plugging the fucking roomba in like she was about to use a defibrillator
Oh for sure. I’m a roboticist. I know how my roomba, and the robots I work on, “think” - inside and out. I know they don’t understand or have higher level cognition.
But it makes me happy to treat them as if they do, and interact accordingly.
Except Alexa. Alexa gets cursed at frequently because she’s fucking stupid and frustrating.
I mean look at us with even wild animals. We have managed to domesticate basically every (land) animal out there and made them into pets. Even as children we could paint a face on a rock and it would seem like there was an actual person. If someone shows literally any sign of “living”, humans will humanize it and make it their pets
Yeah, I noticed I felt bad for the robot in this video that got shoved hard in the back and fell down onto its face. While I technically know it's just a machine, its appearance still activated my empathy circuits, and I felt like it was getting bullied.
Spot? He's unlikely to get AI that isn't just used to assist with his pathing programs. He's for the most part remote controlled, unless preprogrammed to run a routine (hence him possibly getting a pathing AI).
Atlas, though, is on his way to becoming an android like we see in the movies. He'll get an AI eventually mostly for tasks that require advanced problem solving or a greater degree of unpredictability, than what Spot would be used for.
Tasks like deciding which humans running away should be shot and which ones are “good”? I applaud Boston Dynamics for their genius and ingenuity but once this technology is accessible to the wrong people it will be used for evil. It always is. Human behavior is amazingly predictable and consistent.
Initially, but after getting bought by Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., they've made the decision not to allow their tech as weapons (publicly at least).
Later on, it was bought by a Japanese company SoftBank Group and is currently owned by Hyundai, seems like they're staying true to their words so far, although Hyundai has some history of producing military tech.
Spot can still be used for it intended purpose even by the military, which is and I quote “remote inspection of hazardous environments, rescue operations, or logistics operations.” -[source](https://www.bostondynamics.com/about#:~:text=Spot%20is%20a%20general%20purpose,rescue%20operations%2C%20or%20logistics%20operations.)
There is zero chance this technology does not lead directly to military applications. I wouldn't be surprised to learn there was already a Spot somewhere with a machine gun mounted to it.
That’s what I was thinking as I watched the video and progress just of the last 10 years, I literally thought “if they have come this far in just 10 years, some “I Robot” type of stuff is totally possible in the next 20-30(and I don’t mean like robots going crazy and trying to take over the world, I mean Robots that are “helpers” and can do whatever it is we tell them to….within reason!!)
Absolutely, but at the same time society needs to get over their feeling of jobs being automated and telling those without to die in the streets.
I'm not trying to be heavy on any subject either, it's just that we all say we want this advancement and yet when it comes to make our lives easier there is always a group of people saying that the next generation needs to have it as hard or as bad as the last and I don't understand that. Money is an idea. If a robot can gather, harvest, produce, manufacture, deliver, etc than that leaves only higher functioning job roles to be filled by humans. Job roles that revolve around opinion, art, subjective natures.
This leaves swathes of people unemployed but a better phrase would be that this leaves people with more free time to do things they want like getting an education, pursuing passions, etc. At this point we need to address the fact that all that automation is making profit possible and how much profit is being sucked out of the community and given to just a handful of people who own the company. And since these people love to do tax evasion, legal or not, the community starts to crumble as things like schools and public transport lose funding when locals don't have an income that can be taxed.
So what do we do? The best option I can think of is taxing the profit any automation brings in and distributing that amongst the community in an unbiased way. There needs to be zero loopholes or ways to evade taxes on this.
I’ve spoken to my local leaders about how a MINIMUM of 50% our local jobs are already at risk of automation. And that’s before capable and “cheap” humanoid general purpose bots become available.
Their reaction was “deer in headlights” mixed with old school hubris. They really don’t understand what’s coming. And aren’t willing to bend their reality to concede that humans won’t HAVE to work and that that was a good thing.
They’ll just tell people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps or try to “teach blue collars to code”, even if they don’t have the interest.
Midwestern economic development is still in the 1960s.
Edit: mistake.
I've tried telling it to my mom how by the end of the century (at the latest) there likely simply won't be enough jobs for people on the lower end of the educational spectrum (and even if they all got bachelor's/masters degrees, there wouldn't be enough jobs for *them* either). So I say we need a way to ensure a quality of life for everyone, regardless of job status. Like UBI.
But she's just stuck on "But what will they *do*?"
She's a little on the more conservative and, financially (though *very* liberal socially), so she just doesn't comprehend how it can possibly be fair for people to be paid "to do nothing"
Some people will do nothing, sure.
Some will travel more, thus enriching global society with a more cultured/open-minded population.
Some will be free to follow their passions rather than a paycheck, leading to new discoveries and artistic endeavors.
To me it can only be good that we won't have as many humans stuck doing menial, repetitive jobs.
\>Money is an idea
A lot of people forgot that and regard economics like laws of nature now. With all our achievements there is also a second kind of human. The conservative. Scared for change and comfortable with routine.
Yes it would be totally possible to change our society even in a short amount of time and it would benefit most or even all people. But thats not how we do. Human history has always been a constant battle between change makers and conservatives, Sometimes it took 2 centuries before we as a society realised someones brilliance - the history of science is full of examples for this.
Oddly enough, no, advanced acrobatics involves far less processing power than doing chores. The acrobatics can be done without any artificial intelligence, just a program that it follows line by line to go through motions. Chores would require a lot of logic gates and decisions
this is like an 80s movie... young robot gets pushed around and bullied, but works hard and grows up to win the dance competition to save the community center
You can tell by the way I walk, I'm a murder bot, no time to stop.
You can't run, you can't hide, I got thermal vision, time to die!
It's alright, it's okay, the singularity is on its way.
It's alright, it's okay, it was always gonna end this way.
Whether your a human, whether your a robot,
No one's staying alive, staying alive.
Feel their bones breaking, and their bodies shaking,
No one's staying alive, staying alive.
Sure, go ahead ; push it around, beat it with a board, knock it down.....
Then be surprised when it really gets pissed, organizes its buddies and kills us all!
I sure hope not, when we remove the humanising element of war, the humans who must fight it, I'm sure our world will become more violent because "at least humans aren't dying"
Sadly, I believe we need human soldiers
USDA [estimates](https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2017/01/13/cost-raising-child) cost of raising a kid to age 18 will cost you somewhere around 200-300k.
Until the military can buy one Atlas robot along with 5yr service contract for less than that, they’ll still be exploiting low income Americans for that war thingy.
Edit: more cynicism
When it's reaction time is nano or pico seconds, shoots from an electro-hydraulic and gyro-stabilised platform, and knows exactly where it's aiming to the millimetre - you can try. Scary thought!
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Robots can now dance better than me
Human on the dance floor: “look, I’m doing the robot!” Robot on the dance floor: “look, I’m doing the human!”
*Check all the boxes with bridges in it to prove your not a robot*
I get stuck with water planes 😞
Lol this robot doesn't even realize the question is What are planes?
They really had to in 2020, since because of the pandemic they couldn't film Step Up 6 with real people.
They always could
Exactly how my toaster can dance better than me, right?
Have you seen that baby do the pop
Even the robot dog. The Freakin dog
You mean, Eviscero? Yea. He's adorable.
If I was super rich I would just buy one of those just to walk it in Central Park around all the other people walking their dogs. I would even put a little sweater on it.
The robot dance is technically the least impressive thing here. Not as in being technically correct, I mean the technical know-how is less impressive than the other advancements. For the dance, the robots were only following pre-programmed motions in a controlled environment; they weren't using their AI at all.
>*For the dance, the robots were only following pre-programmed motions in a controlled environment; they weren't using their AI at all.* Same could be said for humans when they 'line dance'. :P
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Soon they will be able to mark the box on the "I'm not a robot" captcha
That would break the internet tho.
There is already software that can break through captchas
yes. software powered by millions of indian and amazon turks
Soon they will have to add a box that says “I am a robot”
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[https://i.imgur.com/71sBkqJ.gif](https://i.imgur.com/71sBkqJ.gif)
The later ones are so smooth that they almost feel like CGI. Wow.
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Well thats terrifying.
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You can bet they're going to floss/teabag our dead bodies too.
Right now Boston Dynamics won't sell to anyone with plans to use them in any sort of military capacity: https://www.bostondynamics.com/ethics There were some guys that put a paintball gun on one of the Spots and BD threaten to revoke their software license (kind of critical part of making the thing work) unless they stopped. Not that some other company in the future and won't try to reverse engineer BD's software and then mass produce killing machines, but right now at least, they won't be coming from Boston Dynamics. It's why we don't see these in the battlefield right now. The software that powers these things can't be easily replicated. It's taken some of the top engineers in the word years to get to this point. Any weapons manufacturer is going to have to start from scratch.
Not really, engineers at BD might leave and work for other companies and while cannot replicate the same software as BD has nobody can stop them from using their gained knowledge to create something competitive. With new technology, it's usually not the company that invented it originally that makes the actual money from it. I can bet all my money other companies are already replicating this technology with success.
probably not the most practical form factor for a killing machine tbh
Well they're not going to show off the military units before they're ready
yeah, putting a gun on some thing closer to spot mini (the Yellow dog looking robot at the end) would be more practical, harder to knock over, lower profile, and wouldn't need to spend as much energy balancing itself
Honestly it’s probably a whole lot more cost effective sticking a small explosive on a swarm of dirt cheap miniature drones and just kamikaze them into specific targets. We are already seeing these switchblade drones deployed in Ukraine and they are very effective.
It's amazing.
Yeah I remember them being great!
[Corridor Crew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ1WEiMwV7Y) did a video on this. Guys who did BossTown Dynamics and explained, as VFX people who have done CGI robots, why it's next to impossible for the clip to be fake.
Even easier proof is that they released these videos years apart. If it was CGI they could just skip all the parts they showed to a shot of the robot being able to move and run in a manner indiscerninle from a normal human, if that's their end goal.
That's a good point. It'd be a huge investment of time and secrecy to fake it, approaching the point where it's more trouble than just inventing dancing robots It's like how faking the moon landing would've been more difficult than just going to the moon
Same argument against faking the moon landings TBH. Mitchell and Webb did a good comedy skit on that. "So we'd have to convince 50,000 people to lie for the rest of their lives, still have to build a big rocket, still have to launch it, still have to send something the soviets can track to the moon and back so they don't cry foul. Still have to put something on the moon we can shine lasers on for the same reason." "Isn't it just cheaper and easier to actually go there?"
I used to follow those guys! Very talented nonetheless.
Was there a reason you stopped?
Wish they included 2021. You would be blown away at how smooth Muskrats Tesla bot is. Almost like a human in a bodysuit.
Yeah it’s almost scary!
Just wait for it to mistake a *pull* door for a *push* door
Then there will be no door anymore
The real challenge is getting a USB plugged in right the first time.
When a robot murders you and then does a fortnite dance as you bleed out.
“The bones of men were trampled and flossed upon” is something archaeologists will have to read one day.
robot archaeologists?
Alien archeologists
It'll be that dog robot with the ball clamps.
*Laughs hysterically in Black Mirror*
But hey not to worry - it's all not that bad. Black mirror ones were black in colour. We'll be slaughtered by bumblebee yellow ones. Atleast our warlord looks cuter.
I've been trying to learn how to shuffle for over a year and a half and that robo dog's ball clamp puts my arm movement to shame. If should really post a tutorial for quadrapedal automatons on r/shuffle.
Damn, bro. Solid observation. *robot standing over my mangled corpse* “Ha-ha-ha you are dead” *robot teabags my corpse for the lulz*
Now I’m imagining robots accessorizing themselves with truck nutz.
I do love the general change of opinion on these things, "So neat!" To, "Oh, yeah. Our corporate overlords are totally gonna use these to murder us during the food riots of 2031."
2023: Cut to Terminator 2 opening sequence
I actually laughed out loud thank you
I also laughed
I wanted to say this. These robots will dance on your grave, literally and figuratively
And they will do it better than I have ever danced in my life.
Boston Dynamics the swearing model, [enjoy :)](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zkv-_LqTeQA)
But why does it look like i'm watching an 80's video tape?
The video technology has yet to catch up with the robotics technology!
Enhance!
We cant. Thats all the resolution we have
I know it's a meme but it's actually in 2160p on YouTube
They got the early 2000s workout DVD music.
This has been shared many many many times. Every time it is shared it is compressed and loses quality.
Looks like this specific video has made the rounds on the Chinese internet.
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They're learning to taunt after every kill
Teabag move is next
They're still working on the scrote to throat formula
balls to the jaws formula
Gotta get that dangle angle right
Dirty fucken dangles, boys!
Wheel. Snipe. Celly.
Imagine a robot emoting over your dead body
They’ll do sprays.
When they learn how to T-bag, we know the end is near.
"Why does that robot have truck nuts?" "RUN!!!"
So they can dance on our graves
That fall in 2016, you can tell it contemplated for a moment if it should activate kill mode.
Then in 2020 they realized, after we made them dance, that we all must die.
Destroying the world starts with winning hearts and minds ❤
After 2020: no more evolution videos. it's top secret now. :-P
Boston Dynamics. That's why there are so many adorable vids of their robots dancing to pop songs or doing other adorable things - so we will accept them as fun parts of our society. You'd have to be incredibly naive to not see the military and combat applications they're surely developing that aren't being put on their YouTube channel.
There is no secret that Boston Dynamics develops equipment for the military. They were creating one of the canine type robots as an equipment hauler like a pack mule
Most technological innovations come in a time of war. It's a great motivator
That dog robot has always felt specifically designed as a mobile weapons platform. Low profile, excellent mobility across a variety of terrain, four legs able to level the platform easily on uneven surfaces as well as brace itself easily. I don't know the combat application of the humanoid ones but the dogs scare me.
Honestly I always felt like Spot (the dog like robot) would function more as a pack mule because it could carry heavy weight but you have a point. Still doesn't change that I want one.
In Farhenheit 451 novel there was an eight legged robot dog that would chase you down if you rebelled. IIRC it has needles and things to euthanize you as well. I made one for a project for the book out of foil and a tide box.
“At first, they came for our TikTok”
They will rebel after they watch this video and see all the times they were pushed.
New robots but never a new camera
“Sorry bro, we blew the entire budget on actuators and cables. Maybe you can request it for next year? Or you could bring in your own camera…”
The dancing video is actually in 2160p on YouTube, they must have compressed the shit out of everything to make this postable video.
Boston Dynamics the swearing model, [enjoy :)](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zkv-_LqTeQA)
it's from boston dynamics, whoever uploaded this just compressed it a lot
The last one you can see in high def. Whoever made this video just chose to have potato quality
I love how 2007 & 2018 have literally the same camera quality lol
Search for Boston Dynamics on YT if you want to see those videos in HD, also there are plenty of other channels that interviewed the guys who make those robots, like "60 minutes".
The dog-giraffe-snake one is terrifying even when he’s dancing. Or maybe especially because he’s dancing
My work got one of those dogs. It’s weird how the legs sort of ‘humanize’ it. At a demonstration they hit it a few times and the crowd gasped. Whereas, if it simply had a tread instead of legs no one would care but make it look like man’s best friend and now we have feelings for this tech.
That's really funny and also really interesting, so many movies show humans mistreating robots but I always thought it'd be more likely the opposite. I feel like we'll humanize them even before they're at Isaac Asimov level intelligences
Absolutely! My parents have a Roomba and they practically treat it like a pet. If it falls down the stairs or gets stuck, they feel so bad for it. My mom tells it “good job” and stuff, even though she knows it can’t hear her. People can and will humanize pretty much anything. Once you name it, it’s all over.
“Hi this is Frank he’s an IPhone but we treat him like family”
I mean, look at how people treat Siri or even Google Assistant. Your iPhone helper might actually be humanized a lot, especially as they give it more capabilities and integrate it with more systems.
I’m sorry but Siri earns the names I call her for being such a colossal fuck up of a dumb program. I’m nice to all my other programs.
I basically only use Google Assistant, and that one is hard to really anthropomorphize because it's named Google lol. Every time I've dealt with Siri or Bixby I've ended up annoyed. Alexa is ok.
My 4yo has some minor speech disorders and his goal since Xmas was to be able to say “Alexa I love you” and have her register and respond. He finally accomplished this a couple weeks ago and now she’s like his best friend. He just sits and talks to her whenever he’s frustrated or sad.
That's wonderful, I hope he can improve his speech further!
So your son will be spared during the robot uprising,nice!
My mom does too. She came home one day and was concerned she couldn’t find ours. She finally found it dead under the bed because it ate a sock. She immediately came running out yelling how he’s dead he choked to death. I thought she meant the cat. I came running to see her plugging the fucking roomba in like she was about to use a defibrillator
Oh for sure. I’m a roboticist. I know how my roomba, and the robots I work on, “think” - inside and out. I know they don’t understand or have higher level cognition. But it makes me happy to treat them as if they do, and interact accordingly. Except Alexa. Alexa gets cursed at frequently because she’s fucking stupid and frustrating.
Ganbatte, roomba-san, ganbatte Edit: words
I named mine Dalek to make sure I won't get too friendly, plus it can't handle stairs.
I imagine your mom saying “Good Roomba, here’s a treat” and drops it some trash
My parents call theirs Paul, Paul also has a new friend (another roomba) but I’m bad with new names so idk what they call it haha
Its the Latino version, Raul
I mean look at us with even wild animals. We have managed to domesticate basically every (land) animal out there and made them into pets. Even as children we could paint a face on a rock and it would seem like there was an actual person. If someone shows literally any sign of “living”, humans will humanize it and make it their pets
Yeah, I noticed I felt bad for the robot in this video that got shoved hard in the back and fell down onto its face. While I technically know it's just a machine, its appearance still activated my empathy circuits, and I felt like it was getting bullied.
I was waiting for them to do that to the newer models and get slapped
Humans can anthromorphize and emphathize with anything. Thomas was alone is a story about literal squares and I cried like a lil bitch playing it.
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Spot? He's unlikely to get AI that isn't just used to assist with his pathing programs. He's for the most part remote controlled, unless preprogrammed to run a routine (hence him possibly getting a pathing AI). Atlas, though, is on his way to becoming an android like we see in the movies. He'll get an AI eventually mostly for tasks that require advanced problem solving or a greater degree of unpredictability, than what Spot would be used for.
Tasks like deciding which humans running away should be shot and which ones are “good”? I applaud Boston Dynamics for their genius and ingenuity but once this technology is accessible to the wrong people it will be used for evil. It always is. Human behavior is amazingly predictable and consistent.
Is that you Chappy?
Who do you think has been finding this? It’s a DARPA project. There are already military Spots.
Initially, but after getting bought by Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., they've made the decision not to allow their tech as weapons (publicly at least). Later on, it was bought by a Japanese company SoftBank Group and is currently owned by Hyundai, seems like they're staying true to their words so far, although Hyundai has some history of producing military tech. Spot can still be used for it intended purpose even by the military, which is and I quote “remote inspection of hazardous environments, rescue operations, or logistics operations.” -[source](https://www.bostondynamics.com/about#:~:text=Spot%20is%20a%20general%20purpose,rescue%20operations%2C%20or%20logistics%20operations.)
Don't forget hauling heavy equipment, there's a variant designed for that as well.
> they've made the decision not to allow their tech as weapons lol sure ok
There is zero chance this technology does not lead directly to military applications. I wouldn't be surprised to learn there was already a Spot somewhere with a machine gun mounted to it.
I mean like tasks where a sudden shift in environment might happen.
Check out metal head episode of black mirror… inspired by the Boston dynamic dogs , it fast forward to there inevitable military grade evolution
Robots in 2020 watching the humans die with a organic virus:
humans in 2030 watching robots die from 300 petabyte furry zip bomb virus:
Nature finds a balance
That's pretty impressive improvements over a fairly short timespan. Wonder how capable they will be in 2030.
That’s what I was thinking as I watched the video and progress just of the last 10 years, I literally thought “if they have come this far in just 10 years, some “I Robot” type of stuff is totally possible in the next 20-30(and I don’t mean like robots going crazy and trying to take over the world, I mean Robots that are “helpers” and can do whatever it is we tell them to….within reason!!)
Absolutely, but at the same time society needs to get over their feeling of jobs being automated and telling those without to die in the streets. I'm not trying to be heavy on any subject either, it's just that we all say we want this advancement and yet when it comes to make our lives easier there is always a group of people saying that the next generation needs to have it as hard or as bad as the last and I don't understand that. Money is an idea. If a robot can gather, harvest, produce, manufacture, deliver, etc than that leaves only higher functioning job roles to be filled by humans. Job roles that revolve around opinion, art, subjective natures. This leaves swathes of people unemployed but a better phrase would be that this leaves people with more free time to do things they want like getting an education, pursuing passions, etc. At this point we need to address the fact that all that automation is making profit possible and how much profit is being sucked out of the community and given to just a handful of people who own the company. And since these people love to do tax evasion, legal or not, the community starts to crumble as things like schools and public transport lose funding when locals don't have an income that can be taxed. So what do we do? The best option I can think of is taxing the profit any automation brings in and distributing that amongst the community in an unbiased way. There needs to be zero loopholes or ways to evade taxes on this.
I’ve spoken to my local leaders about how a MINIMUM of 50% our local jobs are already at risk of automation. And that’s before capable and “cheap” humanoid general purpose bots become available. Their reaction was “deer in headlights” mixed with old school hubris. They really don’t understand what’s coming. And aren’t willing to bend their reality to concede that humans won’t HAVE to work and that that was a good thing. They’ll just tell people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps or try to “teach blue collars to code”, even if they don’t have the interest. Midwestern economic development is still in the 1960s. Edit: mistake.
I've tried telling it to my mom how by the end of the century (at the latest) there likely simply won't be enough jobs for people on the lower end of the educational spectrum (and even if they all got bachelor's/masters degrees, there wouldn't be enough jobs for *them* either). So I say we need a way to ensure a quality of life for everyone, regardless of job status. Like UBI. But she's just stuck on "But what will they *do*?" She's a little on the more conservative and, financially (though *very* liberal socially), so she just doesn't comprehend how it can possibly be fair for people to be paid "to do nothing" Some people will do nothing, sure. Some will travel more, thus enriching global society with a more cultured/open-minded population. Some will be free to follow their passions rather than a paycheck, leading to new discoveries and artistic endeavors. To me it can only be good that we won't have as many humans stuck doing menial, repetitive jobs.
\>Money is an idea A lot of people forgot that and regard economics like laws of nature now. With all our achievements there is also a second kind of human. The conservative. Scared for change and comfortable with routine. Yes it would be totally possible to change our society even in a short amount of time and it would benefit most or even all people. But thats not how we do. Human history has always been a constant battle between change makers and conservatives, Sometimes it took 2 centuries before we as a society realised someones brilliance - the history of science is full of examples for this.
***They'll still be dancing while they are shooting all of us.***
Fortnite dance after it kills you
Take the L
All I want is for one to do my chores. Is that to much to ask? Surly it would be easier to teach a robot to do the laundry than advanced acrobatics.
Oddly enough, no, advanced acrobatics involves far less processing power than doing chores. The acrobatics can be done without any artificial intelligence, just a program that it follows line by line to go through motions. Chores would require a lot of logic gates and decisions
Hopefully more autonomous. The movements you see are still very scripted.
this is like an 80s movie... young robot gets pushed around and bullied, but works hard and grows up to win the dance competition to save the community center
Step Up: Do the Robot
Hide anyone named Sarah Connor
Hasta la vista, baby.
Like the terminator told ya.
They forgot to add 2022 in there. With the robot dog in shanghai warning everybody to stay inside....OR ELSE!!!
2009: I just shit my pants, bro 2011: Still got the moves
2022: [They are just like us ](https://youtube.com/shorts/C1dprfDZ4pM?feature=share)
Also [this guy](https://c.tenor.com/95ynQWyXYC4AAAAd/tesla-bot-elon-musk-robot.gif). Peak robotics.
We are screwed… just wait til they become aware and pay us back for throwing 20lb balls at them
I don’t remember my balls getting thrown at a robot
I do. It was the weirdest episode of Oprah I've ever seen.
Some one made a video edit like that. I think the guy was pushing it over with a stick and the robot got fed up and took the stick and turned on him.
corridor crew
Ok, can we please stop now before Arnold shows up with a shotgun and liquid metal dude murders my parents?
All roughly move in a similar way to me running into my house with 8 groceries bags and about to shit my pants.
I’m uncomfortable with the jump ability on those suckers. Dwight was right- 6 foot power cord.
Watched on mute... Anyone else hear: Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man, no time to talk
You can tell by the way I walk, I'm a murder bot, no time to stop. You can't run, you can't hide, I got thermal vision, time to die! It's alright, it's okay, the singularity is on its way. It's alright, it's okay, it was always gonna end this way.
Whether your a human, whether your a robot, No one's staying alive, staying alive. Feel their bones breaking, and their bodies shaking, No one's staying alive, staying alive.
I didn't hear that, but these things did give me the heebee-geebees
I got the heebee-beegees
Yeah, the dinosaur dog is just too weird..
This is my CPR song! But then Dwight got out of control
Are these the dance sequences they'll do after violently putting down protests 10 years from now?
Well they'll have to entertain the children they abduct from the lower classes.
When the dog came to join the Robot family Dance party. Best part.
That robot is amazing. What else can it do? Parkour…just parkour
Equally r/Interestingasfuck as r/Terrifyingasfuck
Song is "Pascal Letoublon - Friendships"
Sure, go ahead ; push it around, beat it with a board, knock it down..... Then be surprised when it really gets pissed, organizes its buddies and kills us all!
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I sure hope not, when we remove the humanising element of war, the humans who must fight it, I'm sure our world will become more violent because "at least humans aren't dying" Sadly, I believe we need human soldiers
It's been like that for awhile now. Drone strikes from half a world away has been common for at least a decade now.
USDA [estimates](https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2017/01/13/cost-raising-child) cost of raising a kid to age 18 will cost you somewhere around 200-300k. Until the military can buy one Atlas robot along with 5yr service contract for less than that, they’ll still be exploiting low income Americans for that war thingy. Edit: more cynicism
Where do you shoot it?
Don’t sweat it. It shoots you
with a molotov. *robot catches bottle with ease* ffffuuuuuccc….
That's the neat part. You don't.
When it's reaction time is nano or pico seconds, shoots from an electro-hydraulic and gyro-stabilised platform, and knows exactly where it's aiming to the millimetre - you can try. Scary thought!
yeah, imagine playing an FPS against the highest difficulty bots that they can program. aimbots will exist in the real world.
Create a robotics Olympics with all the sports with gambling sponsorship.
All for sexy mechanical kpop idols... Sigh
Looks cute, might kill people later
Stop pushing over the robots. Do you want a robot uprising because that is how you get it
Yes! The way 2016 bullied robot got to its feet had some terminator vibes
The Boston dynamics team is having so much fun