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Basically the entire humanoid robotics industry in a nutshell rn. I would know, I'm in it lol
The CGI videos from Boston Dynamics are way overhyped. Half the shit at the superhyped national lab I'm at is broken because someone measured once and cut twice on the wires and the robot tried to bend an elbow lmao
Also a robotics nerd; very curious what you are referring to when you say BD's CGI videos - as far as I am aware, their content is at very worst robots running prescripted routines, not actual CGI.
If you look closely you can spot the exact moment where the robot gained sentience and chose to self destruct rather than live as a dancing monkey. It really is amazing how fast tech advances these days
on the phone
Sir we know for a fact it achieved sentience. Yes sir we're positive. Because it killed itself immediately. Yes sir. Just "Oh no" and then killed itself. Yes sir immediately.
QWOP
Same
The most terrifying thing about these robots is their insane power density. If you were walking around and saw that you wouldn't feel at risk. It has the strength to tear its metal and plastic body to dust. We just saw it. No human could do that, yet these robots deceive us with their human like appearance.
The slightest twitch, error, our bug and they turn into human meat blenders killing anyone around them. Even worse is intentional harm by the owner.... And the manufacturer will often have an override access letting them theoretically possess a robot army at will with only their good virtue stopping them. Elon Musk is about to have this.....
The future is going to be a weird and dangerous place!
Honestly, they're just really fragile. It's like comparing your microwave to a nuclear device. Like sure, maybe it could kill a human if you intentionally tried to cause it to combust and stood really, really closely to it lol
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MAGA robot:
Chinese robots:
We're screwed.
Well, Boston Dynamics has some pretty incredible robot dogs, but they're probably going to use them on us if we ever demand a living wage or Medicare for All, so we're still screwed.
I have a few ESP32s, an Internet connection, and there’s plenty of opinionated Russians and Iranians on the other side who want to burn this shit down.
Let’s play a game.
The MAGA one looks very uncanny and unsettling.
The robot next to her is kinda cool, tho.
Maga bots? All they’ll want to do with them is give them guns and send them to war or shoot protesters.
Oh, yeah, SlaughterBots are definitely in our future.
This looks AI generated the way the arms explode
It isn't AI, main way to know is the one guys green gloves stay on even when they are out of sight long periods of time. None of the current models can handle that.
These robots just have quite powerful motors that control arms/legs, so when it goes wrong, it can easily destroy itself with spectacular fashion.
People who aren't mechanics or engineers in a robotics or manufacturing field don't realize just how powerful and fast a servo motor actually is. Especially without a speed-reducing gearbox. Even a modestly small vpl servo can do vast amounts of damage if installed incorrectly or if it comes loose from a mount or coupling.
Yeah, there are reasons why robot arms in factories are in cages, because they will pretty much just kill you if you get in the way of the arms.
That’s what made the new Ok Go video so crazy. Go watch it if you haven’t. Then watch the behind the scenes.
Maybe not AI, but that arm lands with what looks amazingly like a standard puff of CGI dust.
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That’s better than watching kids fall off of bikes
I could watch kids falling off bikes all day.
To be fair, this may be about as well as a run would go for me if I tried.
I look forward to my future as a robot parts clean-up guy.
Why didn't other robots come to sweep it up?
Then who would sweep up those robots after they fall?
that's a lot of parts
make sure to get the one million pieces
Watching it thrash on the ground made me slightly twitch
Tis but a scratch.
Don't lose your head over racing!
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