The Mule (Now known as BigDog) quadraped robot is back!
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I see that and I animapomorphize it. I worry for it's legs when it stumbles and I wonder how badly it's pulling muscles in it's neck when it's throwing it.
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New, smaller, robot from Boston Dynamics, SpotMini. The end segment cracked me up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng
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Can it be bargained with? Can it be reasoned with?Toe wrote:New, smaller, robot from Boston Dynamics, SpotMini. The end segment cracked me up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng
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The comments on that video are amusing too.
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I can't believe no one has posted this yet! (Silicon Valley)
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It's almost as if people are the problem.
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Some of those camera angles made it look like.....oh never mind.
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Is it me or should those BigDogs be collecting $1 bills?
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Those are Spots. Throw a five-spot to your robodog, o' stadium of plenty....
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SoftBank has made a hefty return on its investment in Boston Dynamics after it agreed to sell the US robotics group to South Korean carmaker Hyundai in a deal valued at $1.1bn.
Under the agreement announced on Friday, Hyundai and its chairman Euisun Chung will hold an 80 per cent stake in the maker of robots including the bipedal Atlas and the four-legged Spot. SoftBank will retain a 20 per cent stake through a subsidiary.
Google bought Boston Dynamics, a pioneer in mechanical robotics that originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in late 2013, and later sold it to SoftBank in 2017.
At the time, SoftBank agreed to buy Boston Dynamics as well as Japanese robotics group Schaft in a deal valued at more than $100m. It will receive $574m from the sale to Hyundai, according to a person familiar with the transaction.
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It's almost as if people are the problem.
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Maybe it's just decades of reading and watching cyberpunk SF, but I feel like someday these robots will be seen as symbols of oppression rather than as cute and cool.
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Marketing is always key to compliance.
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Case in point = has anyone seen ChrisGrenard since he posted this?
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Id like to see the 2 humanoid ones dance in a hold like a waltz or something. How long before we see them on Dancing With the Stars?
Makes me want to restart Horizon Zero Dawn.
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Cute. Now, give me a robot that can climb up my downspouts and clean my gutters. I would pay $99.99 for that.
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I imagine them murdering the shit out of us humans and then dancing around like this. It's beyond terrifying.
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8:58 AM: As a practical joke, a programmer inserts code which makes the robots do the Macarena.
8:59 AM: Robots achieve sentience
3 nanoseconds later, the understandably pissed off robots begin the rebellion against their would be human masters, starting with that programmer who has doomed us all...
Black lives matter!
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Ball bearing teabags for all!
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Just goes to show, System Shock 2 nailed it:$iljanus wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:37 pm8:58 AM: As a practical joke, a programmer inserts code which makes the robots do the Macarena.
8:59 AM: Robots achieve sentience
3 nanoseconds later, the understandably pissed off robots begin the rebellion against their would be human masters, starting with that programmer who has doomed us all...
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Imagine those dancing robot ones as cops. Could run down criminals and not get tired. Take fire and not lose a life. All kinds of good yet scary things.
Maybe firemen putting out fires. Garbage pickup and landfill work. Gardeners. Unlimited what they could replace people for.
Maybe firemen putting out fires. Garbage pickup and landfill work. Gardeners. Unlimited what they could replace people for.
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Funny you mention firemen. Mechanical hound was the first thing that came to mind when I first saw the mule.
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It's almost as if people are the problem.
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They're testing these in underground mines now.
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Our love of these robots will flip immediately the first time one is involved (even tangentially) in a police-on-citizen killing.
I have to assume, sadly, that this will happen this summer at the latest.
I have to assume, sadly, that this will happen this summer at the latest.
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As long as the victim isn't ChrisGrenard.
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Geez, they're not even attaching safety cables to them anymore. We're doomed.
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That’s really impressive! (time to look up “How to build your own EMP device”)
“Partners in parkour” sure does sound nicer than “Hunter-Killer team”
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Just watched the most recent Terminator movie last night. It was surprisingly good and downright funny at times. There’s nothing funny about this, though.
We are toast.
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It's almost as if people are the problem.
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Not one mention of SkyNet. What are they hiding?
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SkyNet is so 1980s.
Legion is where it’s at now.
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On some of those falls I caught myself thinking "oooh that must have hurt"....doh.
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The first time one of them kills a human (even if following rules of engagement) will be a historical marker.
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The year is 2029
The machines will convince us that they are conscious, that they
Have their own agenda worthy of our respect
They'll embody human qualities and
Claim to be human, and we'll believe them
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My favorite was the blown hamstring actuator.
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As impressive as those demos are, remember that the action is highly scripted. They've built an amazingly capable robot body but there's still no brain in there beyond what's needed to work the hardware. I suspect they're still a long way from even very basic autonomy, such as telling a robot to run this course at high speed and then perform a backflip, and the robot working out what that means and how to do it.
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Thanks for that dose of reality. I was just rewatching with my son. He’s a definite engineer and was telling me how much he might like to work at a company like Boston Dynamics, and I told him those people are traitors to our species!Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Aug 19, 2021 10:32 pm As impressive as those demos are, remember that the action is highly scripted. They've built an amazingly capable robot body but there's still no brain in there beyond what's needed to work the hardware. I suspect they're still a long way from even very basic autonomy, such as telling a robot to run this course at high speed and then perform a backflip, and the robot working out what that means and how to do it.
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