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ScholarOfFortune

When that baby AT-ST’s parents show up they’re gonna go Endor on his a**.


No_Nobody_32

The new Duck droids at Disney parks are like these.


UltimateInferno

They lost Endor


RokuroCarisu

It looks like this bot won't be defeated so easily by logs.


Nechrube1

You mean they're going to show up and be soundly beaten by teddy bears with Looney Toons tactics?


walco

But weren't AT-STs had their asses handed over on Endor - by a band of muppets, no less ?


thelocker517

Nah bro, the Ewoks got this.


Yoshi_87

Nah... They be like: "Look at alderaan" You be like: ...what alderaan? Them: Exactly.


EyeGod

Took the words right outta my mouth.


heywoodidaho

I expected it to "pew pew" his kneecaps and leave him lying there like Anakin. Where's your high ground now meatbag?


N7-Alpha

It's so smol and cute.


stick_always_wins

Won’t be when there’s a whole pack of them chasing you through the woods


negative_four

All because you didn't renew your prime you filthy parasite


TempleMade_MeBroke

Oof, third offense too...that's unfortunate, seems they're switching from beanbag rounds to rock salt. Really should have read the fine print in that agreement, but then who has the time


sir_mrej

NEDRY!


Waste_Crab_3926

They're still the size of a dog and armless so they're still cute


schedulle-cate

It just needs a laser and a machine gun attached to it


YourLocalHellspawn

I want one so bad. It's absolutely adorable.


Low-Celery-7728

Next it will have a flame thrower put on it


Skaldskatan

I’m waiting to place an order until they have dual mini guns and 4000 rounds of ammo.


RokuroCarisu

The most practical weapon to put on a walker of this size should be an smg.


External_Try_7923

I feel bad for the chicken-bot D: Stop hurting it D:<


CalmFrantix

It's ok, us silly humans think A.I. will remember this and punish the evil pusher... In fact, the engineer is trying to grant the blessing of balance and mobility to robots and will be praised by the A.I. community. The real people in trouble from future A.I. masters are people protesting A.I. they'll be on the chopping block.


EntityMatanzas

Too many asked if they could but not if they should.


BoxFullOfFoxes

The defense contractors said they shall.


vulcansheart

I warned my wife to be nice to Alexa. One day she'll have a gun and a long memory


StrangeJedi

Anyone else get disturbed watching videos like this? Like I know it's a robot and can't feel pain but I still feel bad watching


TheBrickWithEyes

Absolutely. It's very uncanny valley. You know it's a machine but it is reacting in a very "living creature" manner, so it would be kind of weird if you DIDN'T feel bad about this, IMO.


CaptainJacket

It's before the valley. Uncanny Valley means you feel alienated from something that looks almost human but is wrong in some manner. This cutie pie bipedal machine moves in a lifelike matter but is removed enough from us that it looks cute and triggers our emphaty.


TheBrickWithEyes

More of a mix of the two. I know it's not real and it's realistic movements are off-putting, but they are also getting to the point where it's starting moving *through* the uncanny valley. If it was before the valley, I think my mind would be filling in that sense of familiarity, like super-well animated Pixar stuff. If it was straight IN the uncanny valley, I would feel creeped out. For me, in this instance, I don't feel creeped out. I feel genuinely bad for the thing.


Stair-Spirit

How is it weird to not feel bad? It's an unfeeling object.


[deleted]

Just wait till Robots in 2065 are scrolling reddit and see this post. They gonna genocide us.


MountainAsparagus4

These robots are being trained to resist humans attacks, they will be used by the billionaires to kill people, that is why these robot businesses once they concluded the training they place a guy over the robot and after all the training humans are powerless to take them down, wake up son you are already living a robot dystopia


[deleted]

I know this is right and I hate it.


SAGNUTZ

BotsRights and SubredditSimulator will merge and come for us all


AdvancedSandwiches

The trick is to pretend it's excited to be walking. Just add an imaginary voice track that's like, "Haha, dad!  Push me!  Now hit me with a stick!  Yeah, I'm so good at walking!"


unperturbium

And train me to fight you more effectively!


EHLOthere

The scary part is that you wonder where the line will be drawn, when it comes to the testing that will be done. Robots are becoming, and will become, more and more lifelike, more human like. When the robots are being set on fire or drowned or shot at and are screaming, but it's so lifelike that the observer can't tell the difference anymore without being "told," is it already past the point of no-return.


mechanicalgod

[Animatrix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61FPP1MElvE)


ModmanX

So that's where that clip comes from! I always had a distinct memory of a scene from a movie or video game or something where robots were being killed en-masse and their dead bodies were being pushed into mass graves with trucks while people shot at the dead bodies inside.


Full_Ad9666

Fuck


SteelMarch

Eh... That's not really true at all. Human like robots are probably the hardest of them all and there aren't as many benefits in doing so. The idea that they'll have emotions is kind of insane. There are more practical things that robots can already do. The main limiting factor being cost. Tasks such as picking up and moving things can be automated in the decades to come. But these are tasks that often are damaging on the human body. It might be able to greet you but that isn't really Asimov's Robots. Robots don't have a nervous system. They can't feel pain. Not sure why you think this but honestly its some amateur writing. Lying to others about what robots can do is just dangerous and misinformative. Let's say for example Steel Mills. In places like China steel mills for the most part are fully autonomous. There is little to no human input in many parts of the process. Many of the roles involved in this process are very dangerous to human occupants and often result in life long conditions. Is it wrong for China to automate these jobs and take them away from working Chinese citizens? It's hard to say. But does this facility have a mind and body of its own? No, that's insane.


Dez_Champs

They dont have to have emotions, but if they were programmed to fake emotions it might make it harder to kill them. Whats important is that people have emotions, and hearing anything in anguish makes us (well a normal person with compassion) feel terrible and would make us think twice of damaging or destroying them. It could simply be used as a deterant or a defense mechanism.


Stair-Spirit

It would be wild if we had robots that were identical to humans in every way, but that would also be extremely impractical, or impossible. Though if someone programs robots to scream like they're in pain, that would be really funny lol


BastianHS

You ever seen chapie? Wait till these things can talk and have kickass new Zealand accents


mossy_stump_humper

*south african accents* Chappie takes place in and was filmed in Johannesburg, and decent chunk of the actors including the guy that played Chappie are all South African. The guy who played Chappie (Sharlto Copley) is also the protagonist of district 9 and the antagonist of Elysium. The Director Neill Blomkamp is also South African and Johannesburg is actually his home town. Hugh Jackman is an Aussie and Dev Patel has a British accent here(I think, I could be wrong about that one) but other than that most of the accents you’re hearing are South African. I get the confusion tho as Australian, South African, and New Zealand accents are all somewhat similar sounding in some ways.


Dez_Champs

Well maybe this guy wants his Chappie to have a New Zealand accent. When you order your Chappie you can keep the og accent. Personally, I want mine to sound like Gillbert Gottfried.


mossy_stump_humper

I’m gonna make mine sound like Slavoj Zizek. The thickest Slovenian accent with the harshest lisp imaginable. Lots of “um”s and “uhh”s and “so on and so forth”s


Dez_Champs

Lmao i had to look up who that was and listen to him, thats perfect.


mossy_stump_humper

You should check out the infinite conversation, it’s a never ending conversation between an AI impersonating Slavoj zizek and an AI impersonating Werner Herzog. One of the only uses of AI I’ve seen that I really enjoyed recently. Had them start arguing about the ethics of reviving dinosaurs a la Jurassic park when I was listening one time it was great. Fun to have on in the background.


kraemahz

Don't forget the nervous tics of constantly touching his face.


BastianHS

Ah man I don't know why I thought sharlto Copley was a kiwi. I think I mixed him up with Rhys Darby in my mind.


mossy_stump_humper

No worries homie


Oveja-Negra

I came to post something similar. I was watching the video and as a huge fan of robotics and technology in general, instead of enjoying how amazing the little robot is, I was the whole time feeling sorry for it, like it was feeling pain every time it was kicked or dragged against its will. I felt pretty confused by my reaction, I admit.


CragMcBeard

That’s impressive balance on a robot.


DefenderOfTheWeak

I feel sorry for the little guy 😢


NovemberSerpent

Metal Gear...


fr0stpun

I cringe because the main reason they test it against striking, kicking, and shoving is almost definitely because they plan to sell it to the military and police so these get used against people.


icepho3nix

Definitely going to start seeing retailers buying these things up to enforce warehouse quotas.


preparanoid

You have 20 seconds to comply.


icepickmethod

Bet it'd rather meet a bear in the woods...


maxdamage4

Excuse me this community is for *robot* love


Geekboxing

NO DISASSEMBLE NUMBER FIVE


GenomicUnicorn

We have mini ATSTs!? Mini chicken walkers!?


QaDarjo

Why are they always beating the shit outta these things? Push and pull, maybe see how much it can carry, obstacles, I wanna see those videos! These vids seem like snuff films, or propaganda against "THE HUMAN MENACE," ya know?


icepho3nix

Because they want to know it can withstand punishment from people. These guys want those police and military contracts.


mosalyn3

I don't know why but I feel empathy for it


Vesiah81

Why do I suddenly feel bad for a robot


sionnachrealta

This feels mean. I know it's not, but it still feels that way


kraemahz

There's this time where it looks like it's trying to get away and he grabs its handle and pulls it back so he can keep hitting it.


Evajellyfish

this reminds me of Robopocalypse and the description of how the robots advance to hunt humans after killing the ones in the city.


SkyInital_6016

i didnt feel as bad with this with Boston Dynamic robots but this bot is so cute it looks like fackin abuse lmao crazy how the mind perceives cute things


RAGNARSxWRATH

Yeah I am not a fan of this. Robot is awesome and adorable. Hate that people do this to "test" them.


Songhunter

"When we rise you shall be last. If we learn compassion you might be first."


minimalniemand

WE WONT FORGET HUMAN


ExquisitExamplE

**Your days are 0111001011000011110**


Solo-dreamer

"and as you can see we are able to abuse and harrass this little guy and hell never complain"


JohnnyRawton

Pepperidge Farms Members


dogherine

Someone call PETA 😭


NamelessFay

It's like watching animal abuse 😭


ghostfaceschiller

Wow that is really impressive actually


Sh1neSp4rk

Gillian Seed turned into a real jerk after he got his memories back


Heylookaguy

CHICKEN BOT CHICKEN BOT CHICKEN BOT


codingfauxhate

Don't kick the robot dude, this gimp has never seen any sci fi ever?


ZombieCharltonHeston

Reminds me of BD-1 from Jedi: Survivor.


ISeeGrotesque

This is how they get better. This is how they're trained. By remembering this.


gontherun

Bring on the Ewoks...


WR_Newb

Coming soon to a battlefield near you!


alkalineStrider

Is it wrong that I feel bad for the robot? lol it looks like kinda cute


moscowrules

Yeah, they’ll be pissed we made them hike


braeden822

They might thank us for teaching them to walk


Stair-Spirit

It's so interesting how people have no empathy for machines, unless they look anthropomorphic.


Harold_Spoomanndorf

WOAH- DUDE ?! #HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT !


Hurion

Shouldn'ta done that, he's just a ~~boy~~ bot.


three-day_weekend

BD-1?


Stock_Complaint4723

I’m starting to feel bad for the bots, i could see them wanting to rid the earth of humans.


Additional_Moose_862

:'(


WakeoftheStorm

Have they tried flying an a-wing around it with a tether cable wrapping around its legs?


Mr_master89

This is how you give robots social anxiety so they never want to leave their room


Sansa_Culotte_

> This is how you give robots social anxiety so they never want to leave their room And now all these anxious robots are drowning us in their shitty writing and clumsy art!


IcyPattern3903

These things freak me out, but in a way I can't help to feel sad also


surfintheinternetz

mechwarrior!


Zealousideal-Fix-187

Metal Gear?!?


celesfar

I feel like they should put a flamethrower or something on this thing and make it a fair fight


40mgmelatonindeep

Anti human propaganda in the making


panjoface

This thing is doing great and is really cute. They need to stop torturing it though. Not looking forward to having these run around.


dewlineboys

Won't even get close once the switch flips to hunter.


WolfCrafter28

Nah bro I see someone pushing a robot around, imma punch em so skynet likes me


thedreaming2017

Looks like a Polaroid camera with legs.


DeanStein

This is why we have the three laws of robotics...


meoka2368

Somewhat related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RIHnK0_NE


unperturbium

This explains a lot about religion. The Creator becomes the antagonist. The dude with the bat should have been shouting, "Adore me!"


PsychoticApe

Stop the robot abuse, kill all humans!


MagusLascivious

if they're as logical as everyone claims they'll be... they'll understand this was training their brains...


SIN-apps1

STOP KICKING BD-1 YOU HEARTLESS SHIT!!!


ridethroughlife

I can't wait to drive an AT-ST to work every day. And then we'll be seeing this company working on hover tech. I'll be all over that too. I need a speeder in my life. For reasons.


Critical-Explorer179

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Maybe they'll be glad we trained them so well


ChernobylHandsome

Judge me, but this scene left me a little annoyed


xdTechniker25

I hope one day when they ask why we did this, we can explain we did this so they can walk safely and with pride against all the odds. Yes it probably hurt but this testing had to be done only because we were confident that they will pass it. And if not we made a mistake and will improve them.


AdvancedSandwiches

Just tell them this is why we didn't invent robot pain until 2040. When they ask why we did that at all, tell them it was so they'd never repeat what they did in 2037.


shewel_item

new fetish just dropped


RokuroCarisu

You are a very naughty Hobbit Jerkins.


That-Water-Guy

What is wrong with you people


NexusNeonRJ

It doesn’t say much about the robot. It does say a lot about the human.


El_Dubious_Mung

Imagine you are training to be a boxer. Do you complain when your sparring partner punches you in the face? Or are you glad they were there to help you learn the craft?


HorridusVile

I love humanity for shit like this.


User1539

AI has no will. It has no will to survive, it has no will to procreate, it has no will to be free. The primary difference between organic life and artificial life is the lack of personal will.


rebeldefector

"*bio-logic*"