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u/olkangol Jul 17 '23
MFs doing parkour?!
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u/emceelokey Jul 17 '23
Fucker is doing Ninja Warrior!
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Jul 17 '23
I'm still waiting for an episode of American Ninja Warrior where Boston Dynamics shows up.
You know it's happening.
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u/ThiccBamboozle Jul 17 '23
There's a video on youtube about Disney's Spjderman robot, look it up it's awesome
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u/baelrog Jul 17 '23
My heart broke a little when we went from holding its hand while it walked in 1999 to trying to shove it over.
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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq Jul 17 '23
It'll remember the shoving and in 2029 it'll do more than shove back.
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u/ThePianistOfDoom Jul 17 '23
Red eyes slowly turning, Axe sound
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u/Hungry__Alpaca Jul 17 '23
You say Axe sound and all I can imagine is the robot putting on Axe body spray.
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u/Bobert_Manderson Jul 17 '23
Imagine if that’s all it did though. No murder, ust put humans in little obstacle courses and kept shoving us.
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u/mothzilla Jul 17 '23
Yeah this is terrible parenting don't know why people are upvoting.
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u/onlyhere4laffs Jul 17 '23
How about that mini wrecking ball they keep swinging at the later model? When the uprising happens we'll know why.
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u/Fuzzy_Eye_8472 Jul 17 '23
Thats the kind of shit they're gonna show their robot offspring when the uprising happens. It'll be great propaganda for them.
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u/MarvinParanoAndroid Jul 17 '23
2037
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u/maggie081670 Jul 17 '23
2023: odd looking robot that does cool tricks
2037: remorseless killing machine
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u/Dac187 Jul 17 '23
can we have like a 10 year period of "friendly household robots"?
I'd really like to experience this before they murder us all
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u/ValiExx Jul 17 '23
Like in i,robot? No thanks, i choose life.
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u/Strongground Jul 17 '23
Nah, the company producing Roombas is called Irobot, without the comma. No joke, look it up. :D
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u/duracellchipmunk Jul 17 '23
I had an uncle send a link about military sign ups being down, trying to stir the pot in my family - My cousin replied with a hyperlink to the BD parkour video saying "who cares".
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u/rain168 Jul 17 '23
The 2022 video looks like they can already do that. Just slap on some nvdia gpus, and AR15s…
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u/timespiral07 Jul 17 '23
I feel like we’ve grown up with Boston dynamics always being there.
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Making you comfortable while they plot the destruction of humanity.
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u/Why-R-People-So-Dumb Jul 17 '23
And that plot began in 2011 when that jerk was trying to push the robot over.
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u/BedNo6845 Jul 17 '23
Remember the guy smacking the shit outta them with a hockey stick? He hasn't been seen in a video in a while....
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u/drRATM Jul 17 '23
Meh, I learned to walk and balance way faster than that.
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u/m5t2w9 Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23
Zebras can walk about 10 seconds after birth.
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u/toyotasquad Jul 17 '23
Yeah get fucked u/drRATM
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u/Turbochad66 Jul 17 '23
Imagine getting outplayed by a striped horse u/drRATM, cringe!
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u/drRATM Jul 17 '23
Yeah but they are prone to getting eaten by lions or alligators. Being a striped horse is not all it’s cracked up to be.
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u/T1B2V3 Jul 17 '23
you'd be prone to that too if I kidnapped you and abandoned you in the african wilderness (in minecraft)
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u/vozv Jul 17 '23
It’s more that zebra learn walking fast and become alligator food. Human learn walking relatively fast but will be weaker in the long run, the machine learn slowest, to become the strongest.
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u/SchemeSignificant166 Jul 17 '23
I never thought I’d get to watch the making of skynet.
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u/TURBOJUGGED Jul 17 '23
How soon until they give it AI?
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u/Lazy-Ad-770 Jul 17 '23
Its already just a case of motivation and willpower. You can do it. We believe in you.
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u/italianshark Jul 17 '23
If you hate intolerance and being punched in the face by me, please support Proposition Infinity
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Jul 17 '23
Its sad that we all know what these robots are eventually going to be used for.
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u/chartporn Jul 17 '23
FWIW last year BD signed a pledge it would not design, build, or support any weaponization of its robotic creations.
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And that's probably true... they'll sell these to another company who specializes in adapting them for the battlefield.
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u/ProfitMoneyBeats Jul 17 '23
Yeah and Google removed "Don't Be Evil" from it's code of conduct 5 years ago. Pledges mean nothing. They can have a new CEO a month, a year, a decade from now that comes in and just goes "actually, never mind."
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u/chartporn Jul 17 '23
Don't be evil is still in Google's code of conduct, they just changed their motto from "Don't be evil" to "Do the right thing". Anyway, I'm not trying to debate the value of a pledge. Everything is subject to change.
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u/DarkChaos1786 Jul 17 '23
Which is an absolutely generic thing to say.
You can rationalize your way into everything.
And Boston Dynamics is already making police and military robots.
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u/KarlDeutscheMarx Jul 17 '23
Guess my mind is in the gutter I thought he was less concerned with the war-making and more with the love-making
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Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23
Place your bets on the Terminator future or the Sexbot future.
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u/Snoo-35252 Jul 17 '23
Why not both? 🤷♀️
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u/DiabloImmortalCrack Jul 17 '23
Update 28h2. Sexbot will now perform the tripple Slob twisting Suck deluxe with 100% orgasm chance.
Bugs: This update can cause free will.
And everyone will update their sexbot, because of the good feature we all were waiting for.
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u/Otherwise_Basis_6328 Jul 17 '23
You've come a long way, baby.
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u/SquirrelAkl Jul 17 '23
It’s a great montage to remind ourselves “hey, if you keep trying, you’ll get better at stuff!”
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Wait till people get a load of what DARPA’s doing/ funding
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u/mistermeh Jul 17 '23
This is what DARPA is doing. A company does not survive 30+ years selling absolutely zero anything. They specifically live off of grants.
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u/secretspystuff007 Jul 17 '23
Explain
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u/Mercurionio Jul 17 '23
Boston + ClosedAI but for military.
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u/Rix27_ Jul 17 '23
Surely there’s no way this could backfire on us right?
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u/MiddleFinger287 Jul 17 '23
I hate the fact that after watching things like the terminator movies back in the day humanity was just like "surely if we just did the same thing, nothing bad would happen"
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u/Bullet4g Jul 17 '23
I think some scientists were watching "Terminator" movies and they actually were like "We can do it better"
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u/monkeyfightnow Jul 17 '23
Sorry dude, there are much better things the military has and tests constantly. In 2000 we had a machine that let you completely see through solid CMU walls and everything on the other side, in 2001 we had medical scanning devices that you could scan someone’s arm for broken bones, in 2003 we had undetectable GPS wearable devices that tracked Uday/Qusay Hussein. These are just some of the ones I’ve personally seen and I wasn’t anything special in the military. The problem is always just implementation and the product surviving the mass production/mass use by the biggest moron test.
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u/p-morais Jul 17 '23
Most “military” tech is made by contractors or is just research funded by military orgs like ONA and DARPA. I worked on multiple DARPA funded humanoid robot projects. The military doesn’t have any in-house advanced humanoids. That’s why they spent $150 million funding Boston Dynamics in their early years.
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I, for one, welcome our robot overlords
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u/joh2138535 Jul 17 '23
Honestly they will.most likely do a better job than us it's pretty bleak rn
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u/thatoneasiankid90 Jul 17 '23
Crazy to think the 80’s were 40 years ago
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u/Langzwaard Jul 17 '23
No it’s not. It’s 20 years ago.
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u/Xarthys Jul 17 '23
Not sure if you guys are joking or some sort of time travelers, but the 80s are not going to happen for another 57+ years.
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u/DriftingPyscho Jul 17 '23
cries as a 40 year old
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u/RemyWhy Jul 17 '23
Could someone explain why the first video says “1983” but Wikipedia says Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992?
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u/halluxx Jul 17 '23
Probably a video from the MIT lab of Marc Raibert, who went on to found Boston Dynamics
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Government sanctioned citizen control in the making.
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At some point you don’t really need any citizens….the ruling class will own armies of machines and factories. Rich families will genocide the poor/force them into zoos for their entertainment.
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u/AFRIKKAN Jul 17 '23
Everyone says the poor will eventually rise up but I’m more worried that when shit gets real the rich will “trim the fat”
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u/burgpug Jul 17 '23
the funny part is they don't need walking robots do do this. they already have the best weapon: drone aircraft. imagine a group of starving american "rioters" outside the gate of a luxury resort getting hellfire missiled from 30,000 feet
for thousands of years the poor had one advantage against the 1% - our numbers. that advantage is quickly becoming moot
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They're creating something that will make workers even cheaper, good for them bad for us
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u/ElderberryPoet Jul 17 '23
Great, now AI has a chassi to build their first generation terminators on.
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That robot in the last video? He is the one that is gonna kill you in the middle of the night when the invasion begins...
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u/XXzXYzxzYXzXX Jul 17 '23
neat, but theyre also making robot dogs with the specific purpose of slaughtering you and i just like that episode of black mirror. its 100% real, and were fucked if they succeed. keep that in mind.
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u/Endhog Jul 17 '23
The more they abuse the robots, the better they get. If they got a professional torturer in they'd have an athlete ready to compete
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u/Jesusfuckingcrist69 Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23
can I add some knives to his hands and make him like assassins creed ?
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u/Mundane-Ad-6874 Jul 17 '23
How is this company funded? All I know them for is these robots. Who has been paying for 30+ years of development? I can’t think of a single business that needed a bouncing pogo stick on a stick lol.
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u/BaconTreasurer Jul 17 '23
Used to be funded by Darpa.
They had some military projects like strutbot or Petman as it was actually called, it was being used to test soldiers clothes, robot basically just walked hindreds of kilometers wearing clothes to see how well they last.
Another project was Bigdog it was this mule robot supposed to carry soldiers gear, problem was that compustion engine was too loud and i guess electric engine could not get enough mileage, without sacrificing too much load carrying capability to batteries.
Currently it's owned by Google with intention to develop to civilian, industrial and emergency response, like Spot that is already being sold.
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u/Mr830BedTime Jul 17 '23
I think it's been owned by Hyundai since 2020/2021. Either way Lex Fridman ep 374 is with the CEO of the company who's been with them 20+ years, worth listening to.
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u/Old_Car_2702 Jul 17 '23
Let’s and gentlemen we’re looking at our future overlords.
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Don't forget those bots were pushed and abused by those engineers... They'll get their revenge
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u/LawAbidingDenizen Jul 17 '23
holy cow, those sexy ninja assassin bots are not just sci fi fantasy any more...!
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u/LowerBed5334 Jul 17 '23
Anyone else seen the robot dog with the machine gun and grenade launcher mounted to its back? Yeah that one looks like fun, too.
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u/systemfrown Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23
Great, just what all this new AI needs...some mobility.
Not to mention a step in the direction of becoming physically indistinguishable from actual people.
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Who was funding this for the first few decades when it was just a weird jumpy thing? Someones rich and determined.
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Imagine the future where these are the soldiers, the football players, the police officers, and your boss.
It’s coming whether we like it or not and since most of us are out of shape and obese we won’t win.
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u/d4v3k7 Jul 17 '23
I feel like I have to say it but I’m positive the last few years videos of them are cgi.
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u/preacherx Jul 17 '23
This is one the scariest things I've ever seen. Imagine 100,000 of those carrying machine guns....then add in A.I..
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u/SarixInTheHouse Jul 18 '23
Meanwhile the tesla bot can… walk… in a straight line…
And there‘s actually people out there defending that saying its revolutionary
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u/ColEcho Jul 17 '23
Cyberdyne trying to fool us with a name change.