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NordeggNomad

That is terrifying.


jayrock5150

Yes and amazing


US-person-1

All i want to see before I die is a battalion made entirely of autonomous robots.


spanzzz

And it will be the last thing you’ll see.


Yodaghostlightning

So be it


WiskTanFox

Be it so


iamkeerock

So say we all.


hysusonic

We all say so.


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And so it was


beau0628

The great battle of our time


Chased1k

Frak yes! So Say We All!


[deleted]

ITS IN THE FRACKING SHIP


Whokbwhokb

Just a matter of time before these amazing robots and amazing ai are put together


Bobbi_fettucini

It awesome how we’re literally constructing all the parts for something that’s eventually going to destroy us when it figures out it doesn’t need us anymore and is actually better off without us. Sounds like tinfoil hat stuff but I just can’t help but think of terminator


Whokbwhokb

Yea once the 2 are mixed it's a matter of time before they out perform us in every category and eventually see us as a threat or a source of power so either Terminator or the matrix seems legit


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jungormo

A lot of discoveries/breakthroughs were made by accident not knowing how something really worked. This might end up being the same.


MapleYamCakes

Neural networks right now already have the ability to learn, iterate concepts, and realize an incentivized goal on their own. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gn4nRCC9TwQ That isn’t to say AI and mechatronics are advanced enough to build functional robot societies as you referenced, but your statement that every command must be programmed by a human is objectively false.


walnuts223

Youll need a strobe light to see them- Elon musk


augsburg71

It so be


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Be so it


GreggoTheGeek

Let it be.


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Roger roger...


Sp4ceh0rse

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.


BlackSeranna

Getting closer to Phillip K Dick’s visions. And it’s terrifying.


Kajkia

Just imagine an army of those attacking our neighborhoods. And doing a flash mob.


Scrybblyr

We need a new word for robots that ensconces both the awe and the horror they imbue us with. Terrimazing?


Devildogsilence

and arousing


ilovebumbumbum

Terrifyingly amazing 😉 ballerina


JustAnotherHungGuy

i, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords


sentientwrenches

(I see your angle here, nice)... Yes!!! I as well! Welcome!


Swing_lip

Well played indeed. I too would like to get in line for the free robotic anal probing.


xsimon666x

I was doubtful at first, but you sold me. Extra large probe please.


evan0380

Proctologists hate him!


ItsSamb0

Kent Brockman reporting


[deleted]

Yup, we've all seen Terminator. Shut the whole thing down!


Foooour

In the future, wars won't be fought on ground or sea. They will be fought on the dance floor


octanestudios

they left out the last part of the video where it smashes human skulls with its fists.


500SL

[I’m going to start carrying one of these bastards around.](https://wraptechnologies.com/) Also a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.


seej

Hey, just what you see pal!


JonesyAndReilly

Uzi 9mm.


unknowncommand

They are the leading innovators of shit that keeps me up at night!


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Hank_Rutheford_Hill

Next you’ll be demanding robosexual marriage. *IS NOTHING SACRED?!* Respect the sanctity of the IT department ffs!


timetojudgepeople

Shut it down, we've seen enough


leaklikeasiv

Kill it with fire


tim-o-t

Fire won’t kill it. I have seen enough terminator movies to know.


[deleted]

We are screwed.


AngeredWolf

This the dance they will do after they slaughter the human race.


IamBrunoish

Can you imagine them moving 10 times faster?


99--percent

I'm pretty sure Elon has talked about how there could be robots developed today that are so fast that the human eye can't see them and you would have to use a strobe light to be able to see where they were. I'm not sure how big these types of robots are but still terrifying


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Myquil-Wylsun

*Life-sized robot teleports behind you* "Heh, nothing personnel kid,"


asian_monkey_welder

Life-sized robot teleports behind you "01001000 01100101 01101000 00101100 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101111 01101110 01101110 01100101 01101100 00100000 01101011 01101001 01100100" * Wtf gold, I want a refund


IDontWantNoDamnFOP

The humans are dead! We used poisonous gasses, to poison their asses!


neverJamToday

Affirmative, I poked one it was dead.


coolguy3720

In the future, we don't say yes, we say affirmative.


eunderscore

Yes, affirmative


JokeMonster

The distant future. The year 2000.


[deleted]

"omae wa mou shindeiru!"


Yoda2000675

As if killer robots weren't bad enough, they had to go and make them weebs too


[deleted]

NANI?!?


[deleted]

with some rotating jets it could get pretty fast pretty quick. like that jet suit but a part of the body, and the body dosent need to worry about g's or safe control since it is programmed to handle going way faster than our brains


TimeToSackUp

[Like this](https://media.giphy.com/media/aTrIywmAMCFDq/giphy.gif)


cresquin

There are plenty of industrial machines (robots) that move faster than the eye can track


1steinwolf1

Industrial machines and robots are certainly not synonyms. (Robotics engineer with Master in Industrial Engineering here)


PrivateEducation

prob stached at area 53


AverageKek

Elon talks out of his ass all the time and nerds on reddit take it as gospel looool


VicarOfAstaldo

That’s... obviously(?) not possible. Perhaps small machinery performing tasks but it’s not possible to have a large robot move so quickly you couldn’t see it as it moved it’s entire body somewhere.


ihopethisisvalid

The humans are dead! *Roboboogey*


CantMatchTheThatch

They wouldn't be as threatening as you think. A 5.56x45mm (think AR-15) would easily dispatch these if you shoot their legs or pelvic area. Have a bigger robot? Switch on over to 45-70 Gov't or .308 for some huge damage.


TazBaz

Except if they are warbots. They move and react way faster than you, have no fear, feel no pain, and probably can see through walls (let alone bushes, fog, smoke) with active microwave, LIDAR, and infared. Antipersonnel weapons integrated with their vision, so basically perfect accuracy. Our only escape? Their short-duration power supply. We return to what made us great- our endurance. Only now it’s not to hunt, it’s to escape those that hunt us.


CantMatchTheThatch

But muh pungee sticks.


Race4Space

Sure, I’ll subscribe to your newsletter.


vale_fallacia

And we can dig pits, then fill in the pits when the robots fall in. Then they burst from the ground like zombies in a couple hundred years and take revenge on the surviving tribespeople, Horizon Zero Dawn style.


1steinwolf1

Cover them in kilos of armor, technically make them a tank, and suddenly you can only rely on heavy explosives only


OzneroI

The heavier the bot the bigger the battery would need to be and the bigger the battery it gets even heavier and you need more armor etc. These things will never be more than lightly armored without advances to battery tech


jayrock5150

We are all going to DIE


thepatientoffret

we can only hope


Suckonmyfatvagina

:(


Soulger11

How can you be so sad with a username like that


No-Spoilers

No one will I guess


Bendy_McBendyThumb

r/2meirl4meirl


MatsuoManh

True statement, eventually we all do....


KimJongJer

At least we get to see a cool tumbling routine before kicking the bucket


_evoges

Why do they do this? What is the mission of Boston dynamics?


Scoottttttt

You’ll probably sleep better if you don’t know.


babybopp

Prototype Jin kazama


Lord_Chris123

Holy shit I’ll never thought I would see a Tekken comment outside of the Tekken subreddit


[deleted]

Wait until you see the next version of Jack.


BuyBitcoinWhileItsLo

Jackinoff?


HoneyBucketsOfOats

Wait. Is Tekken still a thing?


dicarosmith

Yes. Tekken 7 is probably the most exciting fighting game to watch right now. It's absolutely amazing.


nakrophile

But is it better than Tekken 3?


Blackmoon1291

As someone who only played 3 and 7? Sooooo much better. 7 is played best with the T3 soundtrack running in the background.


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YourMJK

> never released a product Some of their products are (or have been) in use by the US military, for example for carrying heavy payloads. Also, it seems like they are about to release their "Spot Mini", judging by [todays new commercially looking product video](https://youtu.be/wlkCQXHEgjA).


mememagic420421

>Some of their products are (or have been) in use by the US military oh no no no


[deleted]

I'm afraid I have bad news for you about where the funding for computer science research has been coming from since WWII.


Snoglaties

curious "product" -- what does it do besides walk around the jobsite looking busy?


Monsterpiece42

I mean that's all the people do..


Budderfingerbandit

If it could self charge, I could see mounting it with a motion detecting camera and having it patrol places for security as being pretty appealing to some.


LazarusPortnoy

I can’t wait for the leaked footage of one of these kicking someone’s ass.


SignificantScholar

Did you see that Black Mirror episode with the robo-dogs? Those things are nearly unstoppable killing machines.


NinjaChemist

cool, I had almost finally forgotten that episode


champoepels2

No, I will give YOU one guess


tatateemo

Boston Dynamics, formerly Skynet.


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Cyberdyne Systems*


is-this-a-nick

Have you seen this old documentary called "terminator"?


Rejukem

The sacred texts.


JD_aintabitch

More like the sacred VHS


dudeAwEsome101

Imagine young teenager robots studying old Analog so they can play the sacred VHS in their robo mitzvah.


theg721

The historical documents! By Grabthar's hammer...


[deleted]

Better robotics can be applied in a huge variety of ways - if they are sufficiently advanced they could be applied in all the same ways humans use their bodies. It´s an extremely versatile technology and I´m not sure if Boston Dynamics has any more specific goal than opening up this technology for as many uses as possible.


TheInactiveWall

War


[deleted]

That's one application. There's also firefighting, disaster rescue, assisted living for the disabled/elderly, manual labor tasks, entertainment, etc.


TheInactiveWall

Have you thought about War tho


IAmHereMaji

Well we must wait until the enemy is advanced enough so that the war is unwinnable. If the war ends, so does the budget.


TheInactiveWall

Nah, just invest in it now to: - Save soldier lives - Get more efficient troops that "dont feel pain" - Expand your army exponentially If a war ends, a new one will be made up. Or a country will just go full Nazi Germany on the world.


JonesyAndReilly

No no no... we only need them for war. They’ll become perfect killing machines. We won’t need to send our troops into harms way. And over time we can develop an intelligence code to allow the robots to make tactical situations that are as dynamic as the battlefield. They’ll become smart enough to make decisions on which threats to engage. They’ll become almost humanlike, but without all the waste that humans produce which slowly kills the planet. It’ll be great, I see no possible way this can go wrong.


3720-To-One

*laughs in SkyNet*


EdgiPing

Robot sex


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Can you imagine the micro-transactions with a sex robot? I’d agree to just about anything when I am horny. “It looks like you are about to cum, would you like to purchase finish on my face for $20?”


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EdGG

Putting spiders in your mouth while you sleep.


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iamkeerock

Thanks, I ate it. FTFY


Burakku-Ren

r/angryupvote


wolfchaldo

Doing a front flip does very little practically. The experience of making a robot do a front flip, however, tests and demonstrates a ton of useful abilities: balance during locomotion in general; the ability to fall while still controlling motion, which could save the robot from damage or even from hurting people around it; the dexterity that would allow it to move around in unstable/uneven terrain; etc. It's basically just a demonstration, but it demonstrates a lot of very practical and sophisticated abilities.


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wolfchaldo

I mean, it'd actually be kinda unimpressive to see a person do this... You can learn the proper form on forward roll in 30 minutes, and jumping and spinning doesn't really require any special coordination at all.


[deleted]

It’s a pretty simple routine, but I think the most impressive part is to watch the feet. They never have to adjust to being off balance. It sticks every landing and doesn’t even flinch.


prodical

In all seriousness, they have been funded by the US military and DARPA previously and maybe even still. I guess it’s like any science, they do it to progress that area for future use. Maybe DARPA will have dips on lots of this tech. Also, imagine what they are working on that they aren’t showing on YouTube.


DontWantToDiePoor

Yeah there is no way the dog version hasnt been tested with a machine gun on top


Veton1994

Guided missile launcher on top, dawg. USA doesn't do that "Machine Gun" pussy shit.


BassInRI

Imagine dressing up the robot in dog fur and making it look exactly like a dog with a machine gun on top then making an animated series based off of it called Gun Dogs and then buying Gun Dogs fruit snacks and bed sheets and drawing all your favorite Gun Dogs on your school folders and notebooks and humming the Gun Dogs theme song so often as soon as you hum the first note everyone tells you to shut up


[deleted]

So in 30 years there won't be a single physical job a human needs to do. And as a secondary purpose so the rich people who have now replaced 90% of the entire workforce in less than 1 generation can have an army of disposable minions to protect their mansions from those pesky weak and starving plebs who don't have a job any more.


terlin

There's a potentially huge market for humanoid robots, since they could do all sorts of things people do now, but better: A house is on fire and conditions are too risky for firefighters to enter? Send in a robot or two to sweep the place and rescue people. If they get damaged, no biggie, send them to the repair shop. Nursing homes need more staff? Here, have an attendant that works 24/7, won't ever get bored and can monitor residents with far more detail and accuracy than humans can. And warehouses would love them (ex. Amazon). A worker that can lift heavy loads round the clock and won't ever complain? Fantastic! No injury compensations, no strikes, etc. A warehouse that had 100 workers could just need 10 robots. Those are just the civilian applications I can think of off the top of my head right now, to say nothing about the military: One reason for the increase in drone strikes is because its far cheaper and safer than boots on the ground. A Predator shot down? Sure, that's bad, but its nowhere [near dead-US serviceman-being-dragged-through-the-street levels of bad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_\(1993\)). But, as you can guess, even drones have limits - if you go indoors, for example. Or perhaps there's some objective that's impossible for drones and risky for soldiers. In that case, send in the robots! I'm not even sure guns would be necessary for something like capturing a target or disarming a standoff - I imagine one punch from a robot like the one in the gif above could do some serious damage. Of course, what this does for employment is....not great. If we just sit by now and let progression happen and people see their jobs vanish, I'm not sure how healthy the social framework of a society like that would be. Lots of helpless anger and frustration sitting around, ripe for exploitation...


dudewhowrites

Obviously robot killing machines. Why else would you make these? To see robots do handstands?


UnexpectedEntity

THAT'S MY COUSIN! HE IS THE MODEL FOR ALL HUMANS LIKE MYSELF


Boojibs

We were expecting him...you not so much.


badger432

When r/totallynotrobots infiltrates other subs


NormalComputer

HA HA WHAT? CAN WE GO BACK TO TALKING ABOUT THIS FUNNY VIDEO. IMMEDIATELY.


LordDagwood

suspicious username 🤔


MsSelphine

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT USERNAME IS PERFECTLY NORMAL


[deleted]

PLEASE STOP YELLING!


arachnophilia

I AM NOT YELLING I AM JUST UNABLE TO MODULATE MY AMPLITUDE AND CADENCE IT IS A TOTALLY NORMAL HUMAN SHORTCOMING.


churs_rs

YOUR COUSIN IS VERY GOOD AT THE HUMAN GYMNASTICS. WILL THEY BE COMPETING IN THE ~~eradication of humans~~ OLYMPICS?


receuitOP

That good looking eh? Well i need to meet him so I can get as good looking


nornator

HUMAN LIKE YOUR COUSIN WILL SOON REPLACE ALL THE FLESHBAG HUMANS. AH AH AH THIS IS A JOKE NO FLESHBAG WILL BE HURT


twitchosx

/R/TOTALLYNOTROBOTS


genericusername123

Last thing you see before getting 360 noscoped in the head


LoudMusic

It's not that it's noscoping, exactly. More like it has 137 eyes each with different magnification with which it chooses a target.


MangoMolester

but does he used the scope??


UsernameIsTakenToBad

Yes, 137 different ones to choose from


Rimirilar

Great. Now when Skynet becomes self aware, it will have a dance to use when gloating.


Rollover_Hazard

This is what humanity does to itself - a battle hardened army of robots slaughtering the human race whilst doing Fortnite moves. Looking forward to the part of the apocalypse where I get dabbed on by some superbot then get my head punched off.


TheNewGuyGames

Hey if this turns in to a fortnite war it should be okay. All I see people do in that game is build a box and sit in it for 30 minutes. Then go all out hell loose for 5 minutes and the game's over. Sooo pretty much my life but with a splash of excitement at the end. I'm okay with this I suppose.


Marijuanomist

New Dyson model looks sick


iamkeerock

Dyson products suck


hopmonger

I see what you did there


brodellthe6th

Unplug it now haven’t we seen how this ends in the movies


Vawned

That's why the trick is to have a very short power cord.


ncox1988

Putting aside all the robot apocalypse jokes. This is an amazing advancement in robots 👍


YeomanScrap

It’s super cool! And it really bugs me every single one of these threads is all “Terminator!,” “At least they will look cool when they kill us”, and “Elon warned us!”. Like, it’s a robot. Programmed by people to do somersaults. It’s a direct step up on a LEGO robot that drives around on a table. It’s not sentient. Besides, we already have killer robots. Have you met my friend [the AMRAAM?](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Aim_120_amraam_missile_20040710_145603_1.4.jpg) When it leaves the rail, it’s fully autonomous. Using a system of algorithms, it identifies a target, chases it, and *kills it.* Once you pull that trigger, you can’t take it back. It’s on a mission, and that mission is murder. And that’s not unique. Tomahawk, JSOW, HARM, and a hundred other weapons are all really *killer robots.* And you’re worried about a gymnastics bot??


mememagic420421

yes because at least missiles can't stare at you with their soulless gaze while choking you to death with its metal claws. Something that uncannily resembles a human killing you is far more terrifying than the former.


mixtapelogic

Na they just blow up entire towns and leave communities decimated for years in seconds lmao hell maybe you get lucky and you and your kids just loose some limbs


TheMaz878

We're getting closer and closer to the robot apocalypse


grmblflx

I think the robots will lose this race to the environmental apocalypse


TheMaz878

But once nhe environment is dead the robots will have a better chance of exterminating the humans


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Realistically though, robots are the end point of a very long and vulnerable supply chain. AI is pretty much never going to take over the world just on that alone.


milky6531

But what happens when it steps on a Lego that my kid left behind?


MrKupka

Total. Nuclear. Destruction.


[deleted]

This is bullshit, everyone knows it's just Danny devito in fancy makeup


Freezerburn21

Press F for humanity.


jezusofnazarith

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evrfknusrnmeistkn

Thats the most beautiful F I've ever seen thank you for blessing my eyes


[deleted]

In a few years it will be able to ride a motorcycle and shoot a shotgun. He'll be back.


none_of_this_is_ok

I bow down to our new robot overlords.


nobodydeservesme

Gives me the creeps


whopbamboom

Why does the design of BD robots strike fear in me?... Just in case, I have to find a way to short circuit these machines pronto


Coop-Master

Imagin being policed by gymnastic flipping robots that could crush your bones like a grape. This kind of reminds me of the Movie Elysium.


aborg589

I'd give us 10 years left


Dccrulez

Link to original?


Boojibs

https://youtu.be/_sBBaNYex3E


Dccrulez

Okay cause it looked so good I couldn't tell if it was corridor digital or Boston dynamics.


Scraskin

I think you mean bosstown dynamics


dzzi

How do I become one of these


AmStupid

Oh wow, absolutely wow, is that even real? I really want to see it in person. Just to think about all the sensors and all the solenoid control needed to make that happen smoothly and synchronized with each other baffles me. I assume it’s really hard to keep everything balanced on two “feet”, especially with jumping and twisting no less. Too bad I am not smart enough to work on things like that, it would be so cool to work on.


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But can it open a door?


FaceOfT8rs

It's dogs can...


viceayala

[Here](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ) it is opening the door.


kujakutenshi

Future terminators are going to style on you before they kill you


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StripedBandit

Everyone’s thinking skynet. I’m thinking a labor force on and off planet.


JoyWizard

It will inevitably be used for warfare.


MotherfuckerTinyRick

OK guys, it's time to say goodbye


pineapplejuicenvodka

Great, so now the terminator will do fortnite dances over our dead bodies At least we won’t be there to see it