• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Very nice

    Also very scary as this is just the next step after what Boston dynamics has already shown. You can bet your ass that military leaders are jerking off over these things

    Granted, their battery life will still be Abysmal but that too is being resolved over time.

    I’m not afraid of self aware terminators. I’m afraid of sad dictators with tiny penis syndrome getting access to shit like this in, say, a decade from now.

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      6 days ago

      Yeah I treated all of the stated limitations of MIT robotics projects for the next 25 years as universal & wasn’t aware of the progress in manufacturing + logistics until say 2019

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    y’all think the part where one falls and jumps back on it’s feet is part of the choreography

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      They were going for a drunken master motif so… Yeah probably. Which is bold to expect so few flaws that you put in a purposeful one to joke about.

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    7 days ago

    Well at least they seem short so we should be able to just throw them or kick them over with ease

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    6 days ago

    Does anyone actually want this? Like it’s kind of interesting but is it actually something anyone wants?

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      What do you mean, as entertainment? Most people currently seem entertained by these.

      But this is just getting started.

      As helpful androids? Sure, can it one day clean my house and do my shopping? I’d buy one (though I suppose they would have some awful privacy problems).

      As military robots? Can they one day operate a tank? Carry and fire weapons? I can think of a few people that want that.

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        Well there you go… I guess I am in the minority on this. I don’t want these things anywhere near me or my family.

        But yes I can imagine cops loving the idea of these things crushing protestors throats in the street.

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          Yes I can see some really altruistic uses for these but they’re outweighed by the malicious ones.

          Like RING cameras and the other brands, would be super cool to help locate lost children and elderly but bad people are going to use them for fascism.

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      I imagine a display such as this drives Elon mad with the dismal human-dancing-in-a-costume display he put on for his completing product. If true, I want this.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      I absolutely want to see robots automating hard manual labor. I also want to see affordable personal robots that can take care of all my chores so I can enjoy doing things I’m actually interested in.

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    That’s extremely impressive. As soon as these can do this stuff on random surfaces and with spatial awareness then we are probably past the event horizon for some significant, scary and futuristic shit.

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    Once receiving the signal Chinese household robots sold to the west gonna do project atomic heart, by kicking you in the nuts.

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    Mechatronics engineers and scifi nerds from the 90s would salivate over what’s on offer in robotics today.

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    Now that’s what i call a flex of your technological power between tradition and modernity. Fantastic performance.

    Random thought, I know it’s still better to not have wars at all, but future wars would be nicer and more fair if losing meant receiving a knock-out kick in yo nuts from a martial art master robot instead of being killed by random boring drones.

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      7 days ago

      Not as clumsy or random as an imperial trooper US Marine, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

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    We really do live in the cyber punk dystopia predicted. It’s just way less neon lights.

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      only if you live in upper north america; western europe; or australia. lol

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            Sigh… I mean… I tried. And while there is much to be said for it, there is a lot to be said against it too. It’s kind of a win some lose some deal. Depends on where you live. If I was in the USA I’d fuck right off to basically anywhere, and SE Asia wouldn’t be a bad bet. Thing is, they don’t just accept people willy nilly. Unless you want to endure a permanent border hopping enema, you need a work visa, student visa, or retirement visa, and those all come with their own hurdles.

            Good luck tho, I can def vibe with the sentiment.