…replacing the previously hydraulic version.
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“exceeds human performance” … in crushing whatever it is gripping, right?
It’s such a weird phrasing. They make it sound like you can give it nails and a hammer and it can frame a house better than a human.
I mean have you seen inspection videos on YouTube? Homebuilders are doing a half assed job these days.
As if there was ever a golden age of craftsmanship.
Fuck humans they’re always dodgy. Bring in robots already
Those are addictive.
Me watching: " oh yeah, that’s ridiculous, how’d that pass inspection? "
Why are all the window frame welds breaking?
Maybe eventually
It gives the deathgrip a whole new meaning
And also since when human performance are all the same level
in a general sense we are.
Absolutely not. Especially when it comes to speed and endurance.
I mean like we don’t pull carriages with even our top athletes but we will with a runt of the litter horse.
No you absolutely do not! You never put more than half the weight of the horse on it’s back. I just recently went riding and since I’m not a fucking lardass I got to ride a good horse.
Movies and TV are not real life.
carriages can be of all types of sizes you know but if a humans pulling it we call it a rickshaw and we would never attach a horse to it because it could not handle its power.
When I was taking classes on similar things, ‘human performance’ was generally defined as how well an expert in a given task performed.
I mean, the planet’s dying, but ok. At least we’ve got robots that “excced human performance” in making their overlords profits. Imagine if these scientists were putting their efforts to real use.
I was already thinking this reminded me of The Talos Principle but your “the planet is dying” comment makes it even more close of a match. Those games are awesome.
At least they aren’t only working on preventing hair loss and prolonging erections
Is there a difference?
Paraphrasing a joke from a movie called “Idiocracy”
The planet is fine, humanity is dying. But that’s ok.
Is it, though?
Yes. The planet doesn’t give a single fuck. It went through many extinction level events and it’s still here.
humanity is dying. But that’s ok.
Along with thousands of other species. That’s not ok.
I wish it were only thousands.
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The sun will start increasing in luminosity within a billion years, at which point it will be intense enough to cause rocks to begin soaking up CO2 to a point where photosynthesis will become difficult, and the planetary food chain will collapse.
The hour is much later than we think. Maybe another supercontinent cycle or so?
The real worst-case that you don’t hear in media is turning Earth into a situation similar to Venus. At that point there’s a real small chance of even extremophiles much less anything complex. Of course the planet will still rotate and continue orbiting the sun but earth-based life would probably only exist in some of our space junk like the poop bags Apollo left on the moon.
Because that level of environmental collapse is many lifetimes away, if it’s coming at all.
One of the benefits of humans dying out, which everyone seems so sure about, is that as humanity dwindles, so too will the continued damage to the ecosystem.
May not stop it, but would certainly hamper the acceleration of things.
Yeah though we are really good at surviving as long as there is anything at all to survive on.
Unfortunately, not super relevant. The earth->Venus scenario is about a positive feedback loop. So stopping our emissions after that tipping point doesn’t help.
Lemmings reading you right now:
Lol, not really. I’m rolling my eyes. It’s just more doom and gloom reaction to a legitimately useful piece of technology, which could be just as much benefit to humanity as a detriment.
Plus the idea that the people who worked on this might have even been capable of working on something more “useful” to humanity is complete and utter moon shot speculation, along with the idea that this is mutually exclusive to research and development of “useful” things.
I’ll reserve my cynicism for when these actually start trending towards replacing human workforce, like how LLMs are being misused. Most of Boston Dynamics’s stuff doesn’t have massive effects on the world, it’s more specialized use cases.
It’s gonna kill us
of all the things scientists do, making robots that can do dangerous or even tedious labor isn’t that bad.
Is it going to be used to do dangerous labor, or just expensive labor? I have a feeling the places like the cobalt mines in Africa will be among the last to get robot workers while McDonalds in countries with first world wages will probably be among the first.
the scientists build the robots. Society and its corruption will determine how they get used. I don’t think it’s a reason to not build robots or to say they’re not worth making. At some point in the future, society may collectively improve and the robots will be there to use.
Not all technology is inherently neutral, and scientists know this. Scientists also typically know whos funding them. You think anyone at BD was surprised to see their work on a robot dog end up by the sides of police to be deployed at protests?
The hour’s growing late there. We needed to solve that problem before this technology became available. Just need useful life-extension technology and then it’ll just be a bunch of rich psychopaths running around the planet, and everyone else will be disposed of.
It’s probably one of the biggest potential saviors tbh, having robots efficiently construct wind turbines and solar arrays in inhospitable locations will help us transition from oil far faster and more efficiently.
I know a lot of people want to go back to having half the world impoverished so we can exploit their cheap labour like in the good old days but technology already helped them access education and stuff so that game is over.
These bots aren’t designed for that. They’re designed to replace humans in human-form-factor job infrastructure. Think less “installing wind turbines” and more “replacing all the human pickers in an Amazon warehouse.”
You don’t think humans install wind turbines or build solar farms? How do you imagine they come into existence?
They’re multitasking robots able to do a range of complex tasks, sure they’ll stock shelves oneday but the most cost effective and therefore first uses will be in hostile environments where it’s very expensive to have humans work. Undersea welding for example is a brutal job which requires all sorts of safety and habitability stuff that makes it hugely expensive even before the high wages those people earn - cutting this from the cost of infrastructure projects will make it much tcheaper for offshore wind projects. Especially as working conditions and human considerations make it impossible for continuous work where as robots can just work until its done.
My dad was the first of our male line to live over 35 in five generations, he was also the first never to work down a mine - people just used to accept poor people dying as the cost of living comfortably lives, the work needed to be done so someone had to do it… just as how I can’t imagine being in the situation of my grandfather so too will humanity move beyond the destruction of our lives that forced drudgery brings upon us.
Rich people don’t choose to stand stacking shelves all day, there’s a reason for that. Do not fight to keep such awful things, fight to make a world where we can live well without needing them
Cancer rope-a-doping us with robots and AI.
Well my time to scheduled su1c1de just fast forwarded a little, or we can also get a gun and blast these things before it gets out of hand
I wish I didn’t feel somewhat similar, yet here I am…
I don’t think peaceful elderly life is in our future my friend
can also get a gun and blast these things before it gets out of hand
Honestly, I get the distinct impression that everything in the hunting section at your local Walmart is going to be woefully ineffective. May I recommend a defensive position with difficult to traverse stairs?
Ok OK, probably not those last two, but something more like this
We are long pigs
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Waiting any minute for Musk to come out and say how Tesla is the most advanced robot manufacturing company still, because he can’t stand not being in the spotlight.
Announces that the next Tesla model will transform from a car into a bi-pedal nuclear platform capable of operating anywhere in the world.
Shipping Q1 next year!
Fairly confident that it will be orders of magnitude better than anything before. And that’s something we can do today.
Until the manufacturing delays start due to actuators disintegrating and locking pilots in the machines.
So glad they selected this super not creepy intro.
It looks like an improvement 😔. I mean fuck! I can’t even limbo that low much less get up from 0 to upright folding my legs around like that. But my face lamp is pretty bright! Just upgraded to LEDs and now I’m like a walking sun. I think they just copied me like that. And I got two ears not just one lowly antenna. So that’s not an upgrade.
Now they just need a silicone dildo, some silicone glue and a famous pornstar actress. That would sell a lot of droids this Christmas. Lots of Jewish, Jehovahs, Catholic, Christian, Protestant, Muslim men would be very interested…and women too. Specially if they come preprogrammed or programmable for special work like that.
I want to see more of this future terminator.
That broke my brain for a second
I think they specifically chose that to display that it has no “forward” axis, robots don’t need to be 100% anthropomorphic and follow our biological limitations, this is a very significant evolution in design that will allow for better mobility
I’d go further to argue that it’s very necessary for robots to have even more mobility such as wheels to take advantage of momentum and increase efficiency. There’s a reason the wheel was invented, things like bicycles, wheelbarrows, etc.
The ANYmal wheeled legged robot is an example of that.
https://newatlas.com/robotics/anymal-swiss-mile-quadruped-wheeled-standing-robot/
I’d argue that the wheel was invented not because “walking” was inefficient, but because flesh is weak and gets tired.
A robot doesn’t have that weakness. It thinks nothing of running five hours at high speed if necessary. It has no need of wheels if it can just Gump it cross country with cargo on his back a la Death Stranding.
but because flesh is weak and gets tired.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me
I craved the strength and certianty of steel I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine
A robot doesn’t have that weakness.
Robots have battery capacity limitations, they get “tired” in a different way. Your claim is true if you invent a battery that never runs out of power.
Good point well made. I hadn’t considered that.
But does walking necessarily use more energy than rolling?
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Yes, very good point!
I wonder if someday in the future we might use reinforcement learning to iterate over different mechanical designs to explore even more exotic combinations of wheels, springs, hydraulic pistons, steel wires, legs and joints (optimizing for metrics like mobility etc). I even wonder if flexible joints made out of hard rubber could offer any advantages on bipedal motion
They might be able to ride bikes at some point.
I think the benefits to making them humanoid are underrated in this comment section.
Samara
This is probably the best way to get up if your joints can fully rotate. If you look closely, the legs are exactly below the center of mass when they touch the ground, making it easy to push upwards without falling over.
Humans just have to make complicated contortions or jump up because our joints are inferior (there are no slip rings for blood vessels).
I can probably do that too if I dislocate my hip bones
Who’s ready to fly on a zipline?
Nightmare fuel…. “I Robot” kind of scary
Vaseline…Invest in Vaseline when the robot army comes. They can’t do shit with Vaseline on their camera lenses.
I want to fight it.
Everyone has a plan until a pneumatic metal fist hammers them silly.
But this one’s electric
You’re completely correct, pneumatic sounded cooler. I know, I’m a complete scumbag.
Electro mechanical punch accelerators!
When will people learn there’s nothing cooler than precision?
That’s a worthwhile question to ask, no doubt.
What if being hammered silly by a pneumatic fist is my plan?
🫦
Please assume the position
Cheryl Tunt is that really you?!
It’s CAROL!
Hey I’m glad you know what gets you hammered, you do you ;)
cool, so they can do the grueling work for us so we can enjoy life… right?
No you’ll work but the robot will be your supervisor and can beat you
this is already the case if you do app work like uber and such
They will be so efficient, they can do both for us.
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You don’t need humanoid robots for that, just an economic system that is not based on trading labor for income. That is what has been holding us back for a long time.
labor is necessary for many things regardless of the economic system.
i guess the problem with having these in the current labor for income system is that whenever they can replace us, we dont get income anymore, instead of enjoying workless utopia built by robots.
labor is necessary for many things regardless of the economic system.
I wasn’t talking about getting rid of all labor, but we can with the vast majority of it.
The treasonous Automaton-sympathizing scum…
Finally, a technology related post in the technology community.
These “” posts / articles are click bait and nonsense discussions bait
Did you know there is an industry-standard mounting system for strap-on dildos? Just saying.
You really trust this thing’s fearsome actuators with your delicate starfish? Bold indeed.
You were thinking exactly what I was thinking!
Is it using XLR?
And it’s not just a person in a body suit.
Well, the “robot” you’re referring to couldn’t exceed human performance by definition.
After watching the creepy as fuck way it got up off the floor I think it’s safe to say there’s not a human in it.
I’m honestly not sure which one is more creepy.
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