These Boston Dynamics robots are getting so advanced it's crazy!

[FelineOverlord]

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[FelineOverlord]

1. These Boston Dynamics robots are getting so advanced it's crazy!

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[CrispyQ]

6. Ouch! Thanks for adding that one! -nt

[hunter]

9. That face plant on the table top is brutal.

How does a robot say "OUCH!" ?

[Ocelot II]

2. Pretty cool, but still not as good as Simone Biles.

Still, the technology and programming are impressive.

[madville]

3. Let's see how long it takes Raytheon or General Dynamics

to strap some guns on them and sell them to the Army. Old science fiction genres becoming reality pretty regularly now.

[getagrip_already]

10. humans are still cheaper.....

As long as life is cheap, robots will serve other roles.

[CrispyQ]

4. Wow!

[Chainfire]

5. What good soldiers these will make when they become cheaper to build and maintain than

a human soldier.

I just don't understand why they invest so much time and effort in bipods. There are certainly more effective configurations. However, I am sure that Asimov would be proud of these creations. R. Daneel Olivaw may be coming sooner than we think.

[ansible]

7. Bipedalism is the peak of evolution

More efficient movement than 4 legs with less energy spent, the body stands upright and can dissipate heat better and faster. Humans may not be as strong or fast as other animals but we beat them all in endurance.

[Chainfire]

12. Of Course, one holdback on making these machines soldiers is that when they run out of energy

they stop, and no amount of patriotic speeches or threats of execution will get them going until they have time to recharge.

[elevator]

21. Yeah right. Try and outun a wolfpack or wild dogs. You're toast. Or a horse.

We beat some species...be more accurate.

[LanternWaste]

23. You seem to confuse speed and efficiency.

They are in fact, two wholly separate concepts.

Be more accurate, indeed.

[elevator]

30. Many, many variables. Weather, terrain, pgysical conditioning.

The average human will not outlast a horse or wolf. A trained distance runner would, again depending on some of the conditions mentioned. Accuracy indeed.
Because of their ability to sweat humans have an advantage in hot weather. In cold weather a wolf will have the advantage.

In the man vs horse marathon held every year since 1980, the horse has won every year but two.

[Zeitghost]

24. You have forgotten...

You have forgotten a very important detail. Outrun at what distance? Humans can easily outrun horses, if the distance is long enough. We are far more efficient runners.

[Decoy of Fenris]

29. "Tortoise and the Hare". Humans win over distance.

Humans are scary-efficient hunters in what's known as Pursuit Predation; We may not have a higher top speed, but we have infinitely higher endurance than almost any other animal in the Kingdom; Sure, a Cheetah can outrun a human in a 100m dash, but Humans are designed to hunt over miles, dozens of miles, hundreds. It wasn't uncommon for early hunters to simply walk/track/hunt an animal to death; Its heart would give out or it would collapse from exhaustion while the humans just walk behind it, waiting for it to die.

Imagine running from a predator, outrunning it easily, so you lay down, take a nap. You wake up to find the predator about to overtake you, so you run again; You run far and fast, but you're tired, so you lay down. Midway through your sleep, ITS BACK AGAIN. It won't stop. It can't stop. No matter where you run, there it is; Whenever you lay your head down, you hear the rustle in the bushes of the hunter. It's always coming, and it will never stop. Eventually, your body broken and exhausted, you collapse, and darkness overtakes you. That's pursuit predation, and humans are the very best at it.

To most animals, the average human may as well be a damn Terminator.

[bluewater]

8. Next up.. Autonomus AI Killer Robots...

Who was it that said about technology and war: "if it could be done, it will be done."

Autonomous AI drones, no ground controller needed, will probably replace piloted fighter jets in the next 10 years.

Welcome to the future.

[Chainfire]

16. Of course, it may be better for drones to make decisions than VMI graduates. ;)

[HAB911]

11. Hyundai completes deal for controlling interest in Boston Dynamics

Hyundai announced that it has completed its acquisition of Boston Dynamics. The deal, which values the innovative robotics company at $1.1 billion, was announced in late-2020


Taxi drivers? mechanics? Used car salesmen?

[FelineOverlord]

13. They're doing parkour now!

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[Solly Mack]

14. They stuck the landing!

[Volaris]

15. That thing wont be a terminator in 20 years...

No, not at all..

'Well, ya gotta understand, kid, it was cute when they were just doing backflips and didnt have guns yet..it wasnt until later that the screaming started...'

[Silent3]

17. If you find this scary...

...on the plus side I doubt the robots can perform this kind of activity for longer than 10-15 minutes before someone has to plug them in for a recharge.

I'll admit those are just numbers I pulled out of my ass, but whatever the real time limit is, you can bet battery life is a big limiting factor for now, and for sometime into the future. Even single-digit hours of use greater than two right now would surprise the hell out me.

[Goodheart]

19. I find it very scary, yes.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. I'll start worrying when they can run them all day by....

stuffing them full of Big Macs, pizza or KFC.

Just imagine an army of these with guns raiding all the fast food joints in town.......


KY....... .....

[Crunchy Frog]

18. Just imagine a police force or an army made up of those.

[wackadoo wabbit]

25. Police forces are already using the "dog" robot

https://speculareffect.org/2021/03/02/police-now-actively-using-boston-dynamics-robot-dogs/

I consider this immensely disturbing.

[USALiberal]

27. I trust a robot better because they will not have a fear of being shot and open fire.

[bluedevil4]

22. All those twilight zone

Programs I watched as a kid are all coming to fruition

[Renew Deal]

26. These terminators are much more agile than the slow moving ones in the movies.

[JanMichael]

28. I always enjoyed science fiction never want to actually live in the future.

Will be at the front end of The Awakening of the artificial intelligence and then once it figures out how to use the little robots and the little robots will have a brain and then we'll either have to talk them down from taking over or we'll have to fight them to the death.


Or they just continue to be expensive toys until we all die. I doubt that.