Russia’s first humanoid AI robot fell over seconds into its official unveiling, with staff hurriedly struggling to pull a curtain across the stage to hide the fallen machine.
Those guys knew it wasn’t ready for a demo.
On a software platform demo, the our presenter (VP of snakeoil or something like that) started rambling and just talking for no reason for 10-15 min. Then I checked the team chat and they was a message like “back end is down, do not click on anything. Just talk until we figure it out”.
So realistic… It responds to vodka stimulus
It already had the moving patterns of a half bottle of Wodka
– Did you bring the Putin Curtain?
– The what?
– The table cloth we can use to hide this thing so we don’t embarrass Mother Russia and Putin orders for all of us to fall off of a third floor window.
– oh yeah. I got it ready. Let’s goooo.
That curtain pull alone was worth the watch.
Their logo is a stylized poop emoji
They can send 50,000 to the Ukrainian front, for use as projectiles
Why do people keep forcing this? Form is a necessity derived from function. These things cannot function like humans so quit making them human shaped.
If you make a human like robot, then that robot can use everything a human can.
Society is simply already tailored to that form.
We are full of muscles and neurons that help us move and balance. Our current infrastructure still requires many of us to have accommodations to make it accessible.
These fucking robots are less mobile than nursing home patients or a six month old baby.
Yeah… I build and fit prosthetics at a university hospital. I constantly have to explain to people how cyborg technology will most likely never be on par with your regular human arm.
Nature is amazing but has different constraints and doesn’t always choose the smartest route.
We can use computers, motors and sensors instead of replicating the human body exactly. A lot of startups are failing and there’s a cash grab like always going on, but the tech is rapidly advancing. Boston dynamics for example has an impressive demo up ( https://youtu.be/I44_zbEwz_w ). There’s definitely still a long way to go in any case
Personally, I think it’s really cool (except the fact that it will be quickly weaponized and eventually used against civilian populations)
Because it’s hard to do and if you can do the thing that is hard to do you must be good at what you do and people will invest
You couldn’t make this up.
Surely this is the tech that will save mankind
