I like how they had the stretcher immediately ready for him.

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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

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      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.

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    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

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      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.

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    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!

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      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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        They may be fragile but they are also extremely strong compared to a person. Here is a Tesla bot falling and hitting a closed water bottle hard enough to send water spraying. No human would do that as an international action.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MUaBCoLu8M

        Maybe they’re not stronger in the absolute, but you never find a human just giving 100% power by accident, we also sense unintended contact, or unexpected material yield and adjust our force. And maybe that’s the problem here, robots constantly glitch and just give 100% force to whatever is around them.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            That’s what made the new Ok Go video so crazy. Go watch it if you haven’t. Then watch the behind the scenes.

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      I replayed it a few times, and it feels that way:

      • At the beginning, dude in the white vest on the left looks like he’s resting an arm on the fence in the background.

      • During the video at the top right, a clipboard is seen, then a megaphone, then the camera pans and we see a megaphone with a rolled up paper. It feels like incontinuity.

      • When the stretcher came out, it looked like 2 dudes came out holding separate pieces that conjoined later (they are connected though)

      • Several people start appearing at the end of the video that we didn’t see in the video prior

      • The dude in the reflective vest at the beginning isnt seen later

      A lot of incontinuity that gives us false positives.