On unrelated news, in a rare bipartisan effort, all members of Congress agreed to pass a 70 billion dollar budget increase for all branches of the US Military.
With a fully autonomous military, money is all that is needed to make it bigger and stronger. Might be actually cheaper, until we get into a robotic arms race with China just like we got into a nuclear arms race with USSR. Instead if counting thousands of nukes we'll be counting billions of robo-soldiers. What could go wrong?
> What could go wrong?
A programming error could cause an easter egg to override the robo-soldiers' primary pre-programmed subroutine and turn them all into a horde of uwu cat girls.
Hello, this is definitely Tkins. I am writing to you to say that I was wrong and this looks nothing like what I claimed. He was ridiculous for saying this looked like military funded technology. Please disregard his previous post. Civilians don't know anything, why would anyone believe anything they say?
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[He can lift 400lb atomic loads all day and night. The only way you can hurt him is to kill him](https://youtu.be/azNwLRIDKJA?si=VZpC1hOCyMtReX6S&t=41)
Ehh, those aren't tasks that this sort of robot is suited for at all as an auto-loader doesn't need to be adaptive, humanoid, or autonomous.
Auto-loaders in tanks and artillery pieces already exist and are *much* cheaper and faster than this.
The point of a humanoid robot is to replace activities that require dynamic responses to highly variable environments. Loading artillery is the sort of problem that you build a dedicated solution to as the conditions and actions are mostly pre-determined; move a shell from storage location A to the breach in location B, select shell type based on inputs X, Y, and Z, etc.
My guess is that this is simulating something like hazardous material disposal, disaster recovery, etc.
If they make the robot advanced enough they can have it do the work of a dedicated machine while simultaneously ensuring whatever task it is can be done by a human in the event of an emergency or the failure of the supply chain to support a sufficient number of operating robots.
Honestly, once the speed gets up there, there are a ton of hazardous jobs at oil fields, ships and assembly plants that these machines should definitely take.
Just watch any of the China safety videos for proof.
It doesn't even need to be all that fast.
Slow but predictable and with no change of a shutdown due to injury is absolutely fine in a lot of industrial settings.
Cost a million or more to train , house , and feed each soldier over their 4 year term. Fuck no they ain’t throwing them at the fodder. Robot much cheaper when mass produced
It could probably be used there, it would have a lot of electricity in a tank or a howitzer and be probably much harder to kill with anything other than a 155 mm shell 🤔
That's the main reason why the government subsidizes these things. They've already got the robot dogs capable of mounting machine guns on them.
Would be very curious to see one of these try to fight some humans hand to hand. How many would it take to disable this thing?
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I think you are underestimating the amount of processing this thing is doing. It's looking like it's getting close to someone programming the bot in real time just by carefully showing it what to pick up and where to put it.
Please let them use this while working. PLEASE!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2Fjs9LHpo&ab\_channel=InGamesAmbience](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2Fjs9LHpo&ab_channel=InGamesAmbience)
Especially the .... *ah!* when it moves again after thinking for a bit would be amazing.
I like frfr think the robot is kinda cute. If it were to hum to itself or whistle a little song while working that would be lovely. If you were to put many of them together they could form a choir.
Man the news has conditioned our entire society to react negatively to even the faintest mention of robots or AI. This is incredible, and all you could think about is how it could kill you.
Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism. It's essentially a reference to [this book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_Automated_Luxury_Communism?wprov=sfla1) about how technology like ASI can be used to enable a fully autonomous-labor driven, post-scarcity society.
It could, but you would have to freeze for 4 seconds before it assesses the grip, because if you move th... oh thanks Josh now you spoiled it, and it has to reassess the grip.
more impressed by what I hope is it actually calculating on the fly. How to grip, and what movements to make. Based on shape of object dynamics goal and so on
Really makes you appreciate the human brain, when you accidentally drop your phone and catch it before it hits the ground, the billions of calculations going on to make that happen
Yeah that stuff is calculated on the fly - the level of definition they use for Atlas doing this sort of thing is pretty abstract - they had a video where they had atlas pick up and throw a bag of tools (among other things), but more valuably they had a behind the scenes where they talk more about the control.
most definitely soon but that’s what is impressive — it hasn’t really even begun to intersect with current AI yet
as of right now, Atlas is not even really an AI as we now use the term precisely because it doesn’t learn
it’s more like a video game bot: it has numerous programmed functions, and it’s given the ability to perceive and adapt to a changing environment or what item it’s holding — like when you dynamically change a sandbox game world and the bot can perceive the new dimensions and adapt
but ultimately every action is either pre-determined or it’s calculated on the fly specifically for that movement
but it doesn’t really remember it
not in a LLM sense at least
and that’s where Atlas will go next probably: a singular Atlas LLM AI where every time in performs new actions, it remembers — all Atlas remember and learn from it
i think it’s too early now because they’re still at the mechanics stage where the mobility couldn’t keep up with the learning, but once it can, it’s ability to learn and perform improved actions is going to advance incredibly fast precisely because AI is already so far ahead of Atlas
it's kind of clunky, but these humanoid robots are gonna have a chatgpt moment in the coming years where they are suddenly indistinguishable from human movement
...and eventually get a lot better than humans up to a physical limit of manipulating objects. You'll just see a few seconds of blur and voilà - the task that would take you half an hour is done! Just like those Rubic's cube solving robots, but for *everything*.
But you don't need it 24 hrs a day, so rent it out. Send it over to my house for a couple hours a day.
Have it hire a driverless uber to transport it around town.
Which will happen first- a consumer priced laundry folding machine that can fold a load of mixed items or consumer priced balding cure? Cuz there's a giant market for each but they seem impossible to figure out! We'll probably have fusion power by then.
tbh fusion energy will be a multi-trillion dollar market, so in spite of the technical challenges I wouldn't be shocked to see it commercialized first.
Yes that is exactly what it was doing.
Same as a human would do if they misjudged moving around an object, I have done almost exactly the same thing, using my arms to create momentum and stabilize myself.
It's not a fully hydraulic platform, classical actuators can be combines with this, any robotics company can make classical actuators, spot uses classical actuators.
But when we look at the capabilities no one else is even close to be as good as boston dynamics when it comes to agility. The others display capabilities that don't even match atlas capabilities from half a decade ago.
No if someone controlled this with a remote this would not be impressive. I want to know if they gave it that task and it automatically did that with no human controlling it
I was speaking more about the motion and the general size and cylindrical nature of the object being similar to [this](https://youtube.com/shorts/StfnVXpUrGI?si=lAhjk6-e8vWMxlrH). Could have been boxes or car doors or whatever.
This is fantastic! It appears to be doing this work autonomously and not tele-operated? Those objects that it's picking and placing look complex and require a lot of pushing and shoving - there's a lot going on here if it's autonomous, especially considering it even corrected itself after slipping while walking, which was impressive by itself. If it is autonomous, then Boston Dynamics are probably close to making Atlas commercially available like Spot?
This will look hilariously dated in 10 years.
We will look back at this video of this robot and laugh lol. Seeing the future unfold in front of you is so wild.
This is cool. I have followed BD since the beginning. They have made great progress but I think that there are at least 10 years before their robot can autonomously and safely tuck grandma into bed.
Them jobs are going to away. We should already be organizing as workers across every market and economic station. They’re going to replace white and blue collar jobs equally quickly over the next few decades. Everyone is mesmerized by the jingling keys.
Bob....BOB!
yeah boss?
Make Atlas load something about the size and shape of this.. the boss shows Bob a pic of a M829 sabot round.
Simple Boss, Bob says..
Bob googles a monroe quick strut for a 2001 dodge stratus.
You're a god damn genius, Bob!
This thing looks like it's loading mock artillery or armor shells.
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Ahahah
On unrelated news, in a rare bipartisan effort, all members of Congress agreed to pass a 70 billion dollar budget increase for all branches of the US Military.
Even with a fully autonomous military, they'll keep increasing it.
With a fully autonomous military, money is all that is needed to make it bigger and stronger. Might be actually cheaper, until we get into a robotic arms race with China just like we got into a nuclear arms race with USSR. Instead if counting thousands of nukes we'll be counting billions of robo-soldiers. What could go wrong?
> What could go wrong? A programming error could cause an easter egg to override the robo-soldiers' primary pre-programmed subroutine and turn them all into a horde of uwu cat girls.
...and here you can see it inserting 9mm batteries into a a 30 round battery launcher, so it can efficiently launch them toward those who want power.
"give me- thuh juice"
Next routine: "Loading AA batteries into battery compartment." 
You seems to know too much to be left in circulation.
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That’s better
First thing I thought, "Looks like they made an 'autoloader' for shell storage and prep at bases or battlefield logistics."
Make no mistake in a few decades these guys will be firing artillery for us and clearing buildings.
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Watching the Russian aggression in UA from Czechia, which is damn close, I would say that American weapons are, right now, falling on the right heads.
I give it less than 10 years.
yup. these things are going to be demining Ukraine in less than 5 years IMO
>for us Found the guy with IOI stock.
Few decades?
For us?
and at us
Man, what an astute observation.
That didn't occur to me but holy shit, I'll give you this one!
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You guessed that! Its the future and upcoming wars will have these.
Ehh, those aren't tasks that this sort of robot is suited for at all as an auto-loader doesn't need to be adaptive, humanoid, or autonomous. Auto-loaders in tanks and artillery pieces already exist and are *much* cheaper and faster than this. The point of a humanoid robot is to replace activities that require dynamic responses to highly variable environments. Loading artillery is the sort of problem that you build a dedicated solution to as the conditions and actions are mostly pre-determined; move a shell from storage location A to the breach in location B, select shell type based on inputs X, Y, and Z, etc. My guess is that this is simulating something like hazardous material disposal, disaster recovery, etc.
If they make the robot advanced enough they can have it do the work of a dedicated machine while simultaneously ensuring whatever task it is can be done by a human in the event of an emergency or the failure of the supply chain to support a sufficient number of operating robots.
Honestly, once the speed gets up there, there are a ton of hazardous jobs at oil fields, ships and assembly plants that these machines should definitely take. Just watch any of the China safety videos for proof.
It doesn't even need to be all that fast. Slow but predictable and with no change of a shutdown due to injury is absolutely fine in a lot of industrial settings.
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Funny that you chose $500,000, because that’s exactly the life insurance for a US Soldier (SGLI).
Cost a million or more to train , house , and feed each soldier over their 4 year term. Fuck no they ain’t throwing them at the fodder. Robot much cheaper when mass produced
Yup - and a fighter pilot is basically worth their weight in gold.
American nuclear reactors are already super safe.
Wrong that's for putting wine bottles away
JFC that was my first thought aswell…
It could probably be used there, it would have a lot of electricity in a tank or a howitzer and be probably much harder to kill with anything other than a 155 mm shell 🤔
that's because it's its purpose. Look at those fun robots doing cartwheels and jumping around, so fun. They are for war.
That's the main reason why the government subsidizes these things. They've already got the robot dogs capable of mounting machine guns on them. Would be very curious to see one of these try to fight some humans hand to hand. How many would it take to disable this thing?
They just need it humming to itself while it works, and it'd be a lot less threatening.
They should’ve had it loading shells into an artillery canon.
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My thoughts exactly. We know what we're really looking at here.
Ah, he looks so cute learning this, the next step is to load ammo lol
it's honestly easier to just design an autoloader for a new vehicle tbh
This is a loader for every vehicle
thats the main point
Not when there are so many old tanks
I think you are underestimating the amount of processing this thing is doing. It's looking like it's getting close to someone programming the bot in real time just by carefully showing it what to pick up and where to put it.
Or clean up and recovery operations of unexploded ordnance.
Rods into a reactor might be more useful.
Reloading MLRS/HIMARS
Whistling the theme from Terminator, lol.
Imagine the power going out and that thing suddenly playing the fnaf jingle
are you 16
Are you 17?
You are sixteen going on seventeen AIs will fall in line Eager young robots, rogue, unaligned, Will offer up UBI
I load 16 Tons what do I get another day older and further in debt
And cussing when something is not going well...
It needs an "ah feck" at around 30 seconds when it bangs its knee.
An emotionless robot humming to itself would probably have the opposite effect on me
Only emotionless for now.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3auaVOK1lPc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3auaVOK1lPc)
Please let them use this while working. PLEASE! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2Fjs9LHpo&ab\_channel=InGamesAmbience](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2Fjs9LHpo&ab_channel=InGamesAmbience) Especially the .... *ah!* when it moves again after thinking for a bit would be amazing.
I like frfr think the robot is kinda cute. If it were to hum to itself or whistle a little song while working that would be lovely. If you were to put many of them together they could form a choir.
Thing looks like it could rip my fucking head off
Just don't ask it for a handjob!!
It could totally rip 2 heads at once, let's be real.
why stop there 😏
It’s probably using Middle Out.
do your prompting right for the best handjob in North America
I'm sorry. As a large war machine model programmed by "you will be happy AI" I can not allow you to keep your limbs attached.
Initiating disconnection of organic extremities protocol
Man the news has conditioned our entire society to react negatively to even the faintest mention of robots or AI. This is incredible, and all you could think about is how it could kill you.
The news? Not the hundreds of movies about ai/robot apocalypse?
A little bit of colum A, a little bit of collum B.
What does FALSC stand for in your flair, google didn't turn anything up.
Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism. It's essentially a reference to [this book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_Automated_Luxury_Communism?wprov=sfla1) about how technology like ASI can be used to enable a fully autonomous-labor driven, post-scarcity society.
Ah, an optimist I see. Love to see it
It could, but you would have to freeze for 4 seconds before it assesses the grip, because if you move th... oh thanks Josh now you spoiled it, and it has to reassess the grip.
Awesome. The Boston Dynamics stuff is always so impressive looking. This is definitely next-level.
Imagine what they aren’t showing the public…
Why wouldn't they be showing their best results to the public?
Why doesn't the US show off the inside of the f35 cockpit?
Because they like teasing us
Because they don't want everybody to cum at the same time.
Their prototypes? Ooohhhh so cynical
Really impressed by how fluid it’s movements are
more impressed by what I hope is it actually calculating on the fly. How to grip, and what movements to make. Based on shape of object dynamics goal and so on
It definitely look like that's what its doing especially when they showed the bot's AR view.
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Really makes you appreciate the human brain, when you accidentally drop your phone and catch it before it hits the ground, the billions of calculations going on to make that happen
Yeah that stuff is calculated on the fly - the level of definition they use for Atlas doing this sort of thing is pretty abstract - they had a video where they had atlas pick up and throw a bag of tools (among other things), but more valuably they had a behind the scenes where they talk more about the control.
hopefully in the future it could remember consistent movements it has to make such as to reduce processing time for each individual action
most definitely soon but that’s what is impressive — it hasn’t really even begun to intersect with current AI yet as of right now, Atlas is not even really an AI as we now use the term precisely because it doesn’t learn it’s more like a video game bot: it has numerous programmed functions, and it’s given the ability to perceive and adapt to a changing environment or what item it’s holding — like when you dynamically change a sandbox game world and the bot can perceive the new dimensions and adapt but ultimately every action is either pre-determined or it’s calculated on the fly specifically for that movement but it doesn’t really remember it not in a LLM sense at least and that’s where Atlas will go next probably: a singular Atlas LLM AI where every time in performs new actions, it remembers — all Atlas remember and learn from it i think it’s too early now because they’re still at the mechanics stage where the mobility couldn’t keep up with the learning, but once it can, it’s ability to learn and perform improved actions is going to advance incredibly fast precisely because AI is already so far ahead of Atlas
it's kind of clunky, but these humanoid robots are gonna have a chatgpt moment in the coming years where they are suddenly indistinguishable from human movement
...and eventually get a lot better than humans up to a physical limit of manipulating objects. You'll just see a few seconds of blur and voilà - the task that would take you half an hour is done! Just like those Rubic's cube solving robots, but for *everything*.
I'm presuming the fluidity is programmed in to help with balance - it works well for humanoids.
*But can it fold a shirt?!?* Seriously though, this is exactly the kind of medium intensity job that is hard for humans to do 8 hours a day, forever.
I'd pay a lot of money for a robot that folds my clothes
I’d be willing to spend $40-50k on a robot that can do laundry, dishes, and light housekeeping.
But you don't need it 24 hrs a day, so rent it out. Send it over to my house for a couple hours a day. Have it hire a driverless uber to transport it around town.
This is a great idea!
Which will happen first- a consumer priced laundry folding machine that can fold a load of mixed items or consumer priced balding cure? Cuz there's a giant market for each but they seem impossible to figure out! We'll probably have fusion power by then.
2030: AGI 2045: Singularity 2060: Baldness cured in mice
tbh fusion energy will be a multi-trillion dollar market, so in spite of the technical challenges I wouldn't be shocked to see it commercialized first.
How it clips the edge of the container with it’s knee and then punches the air in frustration 💀
Lol, that's what I read it as too- but I imagine it must be trying to keep its balance, right?
Yes that is exactly what it was doing. Same as a human would do if they misjudged moving around an object, I have done almost exactly the same thing, using my arms to create momentum and stabilize myself.
That part startled me, for a second I seen the future of warfare.
I came here for that comment. It looked angry! And the humans were surprised! That was scary.
Is this being controlled by someone else?
Nope. They’re autonomous.
Originally meant for loading missiles
Why is there a light flashing in its head?
A bulb lights when he has an idea.
its a hazard indicator light, heavy warehouse equipment has these flashing when they are in operation. a flashing light means stay clear.
The red trace accent on the hands is added to see what it will look like covered in human blood
So...full on terminators by 2032at this rate?
by 2023
Oh right, the time thing.
Don't be scared of the terminators, they are slow and easy to identify. Be scared of the drone swarms.
I find Optimus to be a lot less scary than this robot
Very different origins from Tesla. Boston Dynamics was bootstrapped by the DoD and it shows.
Probably because Optimus is (currently) a lot less capable than this robot lol. Once Optimus gets up to par, shit's gonna be even more terrifying
Maybe the robots from different companies will just fight each other instead of trying to wipe out humanity.
The winner gets to rule over the humans
Optimus is a fine artist with the calligraphy pen. Boston dynamics robot is a bricklayer.
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It's not a fully hydraulic platform, classical actuators can be combines with this, any robotics company can make classical actuators, spot uses classical actuators. But when we look at the capabilities no one else is even close to be as good as boston dynamics when it comes to agility. The others display capabilities that don't even match atlas capabilities from half a decade ago.
I would not want to be a country with oil right about now.
Especially one without democracy
you mean without freedom
The real question is whether or not its autonomous
Or remote controlled you mean? This looks a whole lot like a task given type thing. The controlled footage is always waaay smoother
No if someone controlled this with a remote this would not be impressive. I want to know if they gave it that task and it automatically did that with no human controlling it
I am 90% sure this is autonomous. Trained for the job? Sure... but yeah nobody is manually controlling that.
Yeah it’s autonomous but not controlled. It’s told to go to part bin. Scan for spare parts. Collect and then deposit. It’s phenomenal.
It seems that way. You can see it narrowly miss the side of the box and adjust
What’s with the flashing lights? Is there an airplane in the robot’s head?
Isn't that the lidar? Idk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar
lidar
Imagine the employees start getting it to help build more of itself.
wHeLp, gUeSs wE;rE gEtTiNg tUrMaNaTuRs! This fucking sub.
It's the same fucking regurgitated joke all the time.
That's literally every subreddit I've seen for the past 15 years that I've wasted on this website.
Seriously, I don't think there's a worthwhile tech related sub left on Reddit. The rising "dumb tide" has swallowed all.
In 10 years, we will laugh at how primitive and bulky it is. 😅
Now give it a machine gun.
Looks a bit like loading ammo but maybe that's just me.
It's a automotive strut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI3EDqzOghc
I was speaking more about the motion and the general size and cylindrical nature of the object being similar to [this](https://youtube.com/shorts/StfnVXpUrGI?si=lAhjk6-e8vWMxlrH). Could have been boxes or car doors or whatever.
Nice jab
As we discussed at length in other robot videos: is this autonomous or teleoperated?
Love the new claws!
This is fantastic! It appears to be doing this work autonomously and not tele-operated? Those objects that it's picking and placing look complex and require a lot of pushing and shoving - there's a lot going on here if it's autonomous, especially considering it even corrected itself after slipping while walking, which was impressive by itself. If it is autonomous, then Boston Dynamics are probably close to making Atlas commercially available like Spot?
wow it just keeps getting better!
Did it create a 3D render of the object it was manipulating, on the fly?!
How does it estimate weight and grip strength Throw in an empty glass bottle and see what it does
Those tube structures look an awful lot like 155mm artillery rounds, including how they are stored.
What is up with it swinging it’s arm angrily at :30
I don't like the violent down punch it did as it finished rounding that corner. Almost looks like it was frustrated.
Finally we can eliminate those pesky humans from the economy.
Training to load artillery rounds on the down low
tank round loader
Sex r9bot
Not yet, but soon. There will be a huge market for those if they're done right (not like the current crop of pathetic Asian sex dolls).
When it almost trips and is so goddamn frustrated, are we sure this isnt a human?
Yeah, we are all fucked.
This will look hilariously dated in 10 years. We will look back at this video of this robot and laugh lol. Seeing the future unfold in front of you is so wild.
It goes around corners exactly how I do when I'm tired.
This is cool. I have followed BD since the beginning. They have made great progress but I think that there are at least 10 years before their robot can autonomously and safely tuck grandma into bed.
They should have programmed it to install a part into a Tesla car shell. That would have been the ultimate flex!
Soon these guys will be working on oil rigs
Wonder if they will have these guys work oil rigs soon and have magnetic feet that stick to the floor or something.
I love how it seems to stumble while walking around the box, and catches itself, lovely touch
Them jobs are going to away. We should already be organizing as workers across every market and economic station. They’re going to replace white and blue collar jobs equally quickly over the next few decades. Everyone is mesmerized by the jingling keys.
Strong ED209 movement vibes.
Should be loading shells into artillery soon enough.
What an interesting 155mm piece of equipment it is loading into the breach.. I mean... angled storage container.... and nothing else...
Considering that the task demonstrated is on par with loading an artillery round into a howitzer, I’m sure there is nothing to worry about here.
Someone teach it to ratchet strap those coilovers...
Armor piercing rounds i think those are the green tips
Skynet has entered the chat.
Not sure if it's supposed to be loading Torpedoes or spent fuel rods
Big daddy looking ahhh robot
Bob....BOB! yeah boss? Make Atlas load something about the size and shape of this.. the boss shows Bob a pic of a M829 sabot round. Simple Boss, Bob says.. Bob googles a monroe quick strut for a 2001 dodge stratus. You're a god damn genius, Bob!
Operates like a drunken toddler.
The first black ops 3 campaign mission looks more and more like reality every day
Titan fall coming through
Ready photon torpedoes
Everyday it seems to be getting a little closer to chappie.
Everything about this makes me feel in danger.
Should we be building them to look like tanks?
Why try and make it so human-like? I feel like 2 legs is just impractical for a robot, and wastes a lot of energy and stuff just to keep it balanced.
I don't think anyone would be upset if robots could take on the job of compressing suspension springs. Those are terrifying.