Reply With QuotePretty impressive I agree, though I suspect there might have been more than a few amusing outtakes.
No doubt some of us have seen stuff by Boston Dynamics before but they're just getting better and better.
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Pretty impressive I agree, though I suspect there might have been more than a few amusing outtakes.
So are they programmed to do this or are they action to their surroundings?
Frack, a Cylon.................This has happened before and will happen again!Originally Posted by reggie747
We're in trouble just as soon as robots learn how to get upstairs.
Very impressive, even if the whole thing is programmed in as a one-trick pony. Seemed to catch its left foot scaling those blocks?
The scary part is whether the military see them as viable.
I'm sure they could be...I mean, we've all seen Robocop
Boston Dynamics do a lot of work for DARPA.
"Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply."
One-trick? I don't think so:
- Two years ago...The Next Generation
- Five months ago...Getting some air
when they become self aware the guy with the hockey stick is going to be sorry :)
New video from them. It's all good fun till the flame thrower starts.
Yep - you have 50 seconds to comply
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I eagerly await their entry for next year's One Man and His Dog.
Black mirror! anyone?
Probably not (yet)
There's already a high tech solution to stop them.
I can see this technology being used for paraplegics and amputees within the next 10 years...
So not that intelligent then as I would given the guy with the hockey stick a proper shove
They don't always work, sometimes they fail, then get in a strop, then fall over
A paint ball to the eye will stop 'em.
If you think they're creepy...meet some crawling learning for robots, BBC Link.
I presume these things aren't autonomous?
That episode is terrifying!Black mirror! anyone?
Absolutely fantastic - I've been following Boston Dynamics for years.
So clever my foot fell off.
I didn't realise Hyundai have got have purchased them. Interesting upcoming info here:
https://youtu.be/1daVNQTwC-M
Wow, though I'm surprised a non-US company was allowed to buy Boston Dynamics.
CGI is very impressive these days
Wow that's brilliant! Just love the way it develops!
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Mr. Bezos must be rubbing his hands frantically...no more toilet breaks and 24/7/365 shifts
I too have been following Boston Dynamics for some years. I remember watching a video of someone dressed in military gear and a BD robot clanking along beside him. Stealthy it was not, and that's the biggest problem with these. They have come on in leaps and bounds. There was a clip of the dog type robot slipping on a banana skin a while back.
Did you see what I did there?
Amazing and I want one of those "dogs" perhaps be able to teach my two something :)
It's what went through my mind
There are some good cgi ones
https://youtu.be/dKjCWfuvYxQ
https://youtu.be/y3RIHnK0_NE
...police dog shot multiple times...:
...Roscoe was part of the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad and deployed on March 6 in a Barnstable house after police were fired upon. Police sent in two other robots often used for bomb disposal into the house to find the suspect along with the robotic dog.
Controlled remotely by state troopers, it first checked the two main floors before finding someone in the basement. The person, armed with a rifle, twice knocked over the robotic dog before shooting it three times and disabling its communication.
The person then shot at one of the other robots and an outdoor swimming pool before police deployed tear gas and arrested them...
We use these robots in the industry I work in. Perfect for hazardous situations where humans would be at safety risk.
I was sitting in the office one day and a couple walk past me being controlled by a person with a hand held device. Very impressive.
Reminds me of a t-shirt I designed for our daughter some years back
If only the robots had guns.
"Bite my shiny metal ass."
- Bender Bending Rodríguez
Boston Dynamics has an Ethical Approach:
...Adding weapons to robots that are widely available to the public and capable of navigating in locations where people live and work raises both serious risks of harm and ethical objections. In response, we have spearheaded a coalition of industry leaders spanning six companies and three continents in pledging not to weaponize our robots or the software that enables their use...
How well that will hold up is yet to be seen. Especially in countries like Russia and the USA (were there has been a considerable effort to circumvent the drug companies' ban on supplying products to be used for lethal injections).
Pop an AI brain into one (or remote connect) and things will start to get very Azimov indeed. The next couple of decades are going to be interesting, to say the least.
I imagine some clever legal definitions, perhaps gerrymandering a ''warzone'' exclusion will circumvent this bump in the road, the invocation of national security interests, only a matter of time..that is if DARPA aren't already on it, working on getting robot boots on the ground.
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When the human folks go home.......
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Written for PR.
But my comment was a tongue in cheek commentary on a certain and certain type of culture.
"Bite my shiny metal ass."
- Bender Bending Rodríguez
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