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Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw

hey pretty cool imo. Big robot fan here, as long as they aren't the sort which ruthlessly hunts you down and murders you

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Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

barnold posted:

a robot uprising joke under a Boston Dynamic video, huh? no one's ever thought of THAT before

Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

gary oldmans diary posted:

i know the company makes actual real robots but this really looks like cgi

i think it's the way they don't quite move like a human or animal, something weirdly abrupt and mechanical in the motions. I definitely got the same feeling

i guess they are owned by Hyundai or someone now. But I for one welcome our new Korean robot overlords,

Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

can't wait to see the new Boston Dynamics robots glitch through the floor then get launched 500 meters into the air

Johnny will protect us I hope

Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

They sold a few dozen? Hundred? Spot robots last year, but all indications were that their long time CEO was only interested in puttering around his workshop building cool gizmos and gadgets without a single care as to their practical value

Recently however he retired to a less authoritative position in the R&D department, which is theorized to be part of a greater trend towards a more commercial focus for the company. The ostrich box mover bot is the first machine they’ve designed with a specific customer and business use-case in mind.

Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

I think most of the purchases have been by researchers who had spare grant money or just rich people who thought they were cool and could justify it as a “business expense” like Elon Musk even if there wasn’t much practical value

https://youtu.be/gD7K6-q-o50

Wow robots are even stealing jobs from dogs now? This time they’ve gone too far

Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

Meanwhile, in Japan:

https://youtu.be/dNjCd_eLsRA

https://youtu.be/G9p9jdmJQOQ

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Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

legged military robots might be coming sooner than most people think, although the penny pinching brass have chosen to go with a much cheaper option than Boston Dynamics (and hence, less effective at dancing).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dvqj2JzRVA

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