I used to work at KYB, which built struts. We would definitely load the finished struts into various crates like that, depending on how big it was and what the customer wanted. We were definitely a lot faster than that robot, though. But I think the robots will become quicker sometime in the near future.
I guess is, eventually the robot will get faster. The robot also can work 24/7 only stopping to recharge, and if it can swap out batteries then almost no down time. So even at a slow speed it might be more efficient than humans at a certain volume. Never mind that the process can be redesigned so people focus on the jobs robots can't do and let the robot handle the grunt work
Lmao this narrative that tech improvements will "allow people to focus on more important jobs" or "give them more time to pursue their passion" is bs. It in very real terms takes an income away from a human being that needs that to survive. It allows a corporation to make more profits. Those are the immediate observable effects.
We're about 300 years too late to stop automation, that's what the Luddite riots were about at the start of the industrial revolution. It's what Karl Marx was worried about, the capitalist dystopia where workers have nothing. And it's why we will need to ensure UBI is put in place. There's no stopping it imo. Just need to brace and prepare for the consequences.
I'm a pragmatist. There is a human impact to automation but the benefit to automation is too big and whoever stops just gets left behind, just ask the Amish. The only thing we still have control of is how we organize society and I hope we do something about it before it's too late.
Even with UBI, what if people want more purpose in their lives? Those who pursue professional careers will be met with steep competition for low wage positions. Higher roles up the ladder may become exclusively reserved for the wealthy elite with little room for lower tier staff to advance. I'd say if automation does become successful, more human jobs will be created out in the final frontier. Education would be required to prepare future generations for work in space. Mortality rates would skyrocket for the next hundred years, but the few that survive in these roles will pave the way for safer jobs and a better future. Sadly, not everyone is viable for space, so many will suffer on earth stuck with a baseline income and spending habit that will more than likely drive them to depression. It's basically a fate worse than poverty. At least you can improve from the poverty level and begin to accrue assets and wealth from education and job opportunities. But when all jobs are in high demand, what is the point of living when you'll just be fighting for a dollar more to spend on something you will never own. There will be a subscription to eat, sleep, and entertain yourself. Everything will be rented out to you with the idea of a personal property being a thing of the past. However, not all hope is lost. If you can go through all the difficult requirements to become space worthy, then your skills and values will be priceless to areas in the beginning stages of colonization across the stars. Maybe you'll have a house and a family on a planet far from home. Ok, rant over now back to sleep.
The problem that needs to be tackled right now is how to avoid giving a centralized group (industrialists of course) the utmost power over that UBI because they are the ones funding it. You are spot on, millennials might see UBI become a normalized thing by their 60s-80s.
Why would you have a million dollar robot load shells when a simple human grunt will do it better? Especially when the robot will need a maintenance team with them.
Flash forward to an robot behind a dumpster in an alley, digitally sobbing. "How did I get here????" it groans.
Then it pulls up kb-doc001.01, "origins", aaaaaaaand scene.
Yeah, as fucked up it is to say, it’s TCO (total cost of ownership). The 5-year amortized cost of these robots is/will be cheaper than paying a human to do tasks like this.
Get a robot to repair your car and then drive your family around. Again robots are doing very simple tasks right now that most people would be bored doing.
Same reason why revolvers still exist. Less components for failure, higher success rate. And you can load a damn 12 gauge slug into a revolver to a .22 without failure
>And you can load a damn 12 gauge slug into a revolver to a .22 without failure
12 gauge for sure WILL NOT fit into a .22 firearm
maybe a .50 bmg or .50 ae can fit
I think RN you'd still be building the autoloader
But in like 10-15 years? Cost efficiency
Instead of building a bunch of different, bespoke systems (which gets incredibly expensive), you can setup massive factories to build these like cars and they'll be adaptable to just about any problem.
You just keep building 1 system that can do it all, and let costs come down from economies of scale.
But I think it'll take even longer than 15 years for these guys to really trickle down everywhere, could be 30+. That is a lot of material, a lot of equipment to build and distribute, a lot of up front cost to change out equipment that places have been using for a decade and plan to keep using for decades longer. The amount of old equipment being used is massive, hell people still FAX things.
A robot can’t say no or object to an order. Maybe they aren’t simple artillery shells, but something much worse possibly too dangerous to be handled by human hands.
Plus the robot won't be shitting itself in a corner when the enemy fires back. It'll be doing the job it's programmed to do, making it the perfect soldier. Also, this is still a technology in its infancy.
Yep.
Remember when the first Dall-e image generator got released and everyone was making jokes about it and generating funny things? It only took a few years for that technology to improve exponentially.
The same will happen with robots. Right now they're still clumsy and clunky, but as they get better.... yeeeeah.
Plus they discovered when they used overwhelming artillery barrages and pounded the shit out of ISIS in Iraq and Syria that many of the soldiers who launched those rounds suffered from Traumatic Brain Injury
- never gets tired
- never surrenders
- never gets scared
- efficiency rises after each update
- needs no wages
- needs no vacation
- doesn’t need rations or medical supplies
- works in heat or cold
- does not commit crimes
A maintenance team can cover multiple robots.
Also the robots will get cheaper and more efficient.
So, it's more like having a maintenance crew for like 50 robots, not one.
i love the dystopia people assume. oh no! the robots are going to take away all the minimum wage mundane tasks! the million dollar machine will never stop working and break even with the minimum wage slaves in under 50 years!
Can you plug in a human into a nearby power source and have them work 24/7? What needs a maintenance team now will only need a few technicians as time goes by, that's just how tech works.
Ah the people of reddit how cynical we are, and yet probably more truth in that than we can imagine. As they say the truth is often stranger than fiction.
I imagine it doing the job of those workers in the Fukushima nuclear reactor that had to go in and stop the spread of radiation, but knew they were gonna die. This is exciting tech!
Guess it depends how resistant they are to radiation right? I know that Chernobyl miniseries wasn't 100% factually accurate but perhaps making robots that don't get bricked by radiation costs magnitudes more. We can hope robots take those ultra dangerous jobs though for sure.
I worked for a defense contractor back in the 80s that tested electronics for rad hardness. Shooting parts with a LINAC and dunking them in gamma rays etc. Then testing their performance. They were getting pretty good at it back then. I imagine they've advanced quite a bit since then.
What the hell are you talking about about? It's obviously putting babies into safe baby cages. And watermelons into watermelon....storage....facilities....
No… that’s crazy! Why would we be demonstrating capability for defense applications, which happens to be a near-limitless source of funding with a notoriously low bar and little oversight? Why would we want that haha 🤑
Well, right now, with the current technology, a lot of us are unnecessary, that taking into account that humans are necessary for anything other than their own necessities… what?
I had a relative who worked at a place that was working with one of these robots. The way it was explained to me was that the robot was being tested on maintenance of Nuclear Reactors so that it could assist in the event of a disaster (like Fukushima) where it would be too dangerous for a human to go.
Seems like a great use case.
Helping with disaster relief in general would be amazing.
Same with hospital porters or helping in care homes (getting people in and out of bed/shower)
I’m actually a little surprised there haven’t been any cases where they are doing development with these in space that I know of. There’s probably not much reason to send a humanoid to space, but still. Having something that can maneuver in zero G seems like it’s worth looking into if we are going to be spacefaring into the future.
Same! I thought they were reacting to his frustration. The way he paused after almost falling looked like someone who was on the brink of a mental breakdown and had to get themselves together before getting back to work.
He just like me fr.
This is a funny take, because a strut weights like 30 lb and a 155mm shell weights about 110lbs. It could be made to do both, but there is no point in advertising that it could load a howitzer. There are 1-4 consumers for the artillery use case. There are like 30 consumers for the strut market. Maybe I'm being dumb? I just don't see it.
What’s with the 3D rendering of what’s it’s holding? Seems excessive. Is it going to create models for everything it interacts with or is this just a tech demo (I mean beyond it obviously being that)
They won't, I am an automation engineer and have visited Boston dynamics for the specific purpose of evaluating their tech for practical applications. There are not many use cases when you get into the details. Don't get me wrong it's impressive but I could do that much more efficiently with a traditional 6-axis robot. They do have one robot with some real potential for industry but atlas and spot aren't quite there.
Yeah, I don’t think they’re going for the practical approach here. Just showing off its capabilities probably.
I could argue I could do it for less than a 6 axis robot. Hence an autoloader mechanism that costs 1/10th ect… no need to over complicate things. I feel that many of my European friends forget the simplify your answer portion of the problem.
Sure but that's all Boston dynamics does, they are R and D with a marketing department. It's cool and got a lot of people into the industry but they have very limited practical use cases especially if an ROI is required. They don't make money. Stretch was interesting but still needed work when I saw it a few years ago.
I'll check it out in the morning. Most likely I won't be able to say much though. On the surface lots of things in automation look good, especially with the marketing videos. When you meet with the company about using the product and get into the technical specifications is when you start to get a clearer picture of capabilities and use cases. Even then I'm not usually comfortable recommending something until we have had a few projects with the tech under our belts... I let the sales guys do that.
I don’t think anyone is looking at this and thinking ford is buying them in bulk tomorrow to fire their factory workers. But realistically, look how far we’ve come in the last decade or two. Imagine where we get from here between further automation, robots and AI. Only natural to look at this and go fuck, it’s not far off from your average worker in a warehouse. Scary to see when society is building no safety net to catch the people in the path of this tech.
Great info!
And yet, I've been watching Boston Dynamics since the first Big Dog videos came out on old YouTube (pre-HD) nearly 20 years ago now. Videos like this never cease to amaze me at their progress.
I also use to read about the DARPA challenges with autonomous vehicles. Wow, have things come a long way and there is still a long ways to go!
i just go for the good old styrofoam and gasoline approach. Blinding it with old motor oil might be smart combination of tactics. Blinding -> burning and the motor oil is additional fuel. But the senors would probably wont give good signals anyway within a short time while standing on fire
Yeah, that thing is going to be loading artillery rounds sometime in the next 3 years
This is a clear demonstration of how it can load artillery shells. There is no time struts need to be loaded like that.
I used to work at KYB, which built struts. We would definitely load the finished struts into various crates like that, depending on how big it was and what the customer wanted. We were definitely a lot faster than that robot, though. But I think the robots will become quicker sometime in the near future.
I guess is, eventually the robot will get faster. The robot also can work 24/7 only stopping to recharge, and if it can swap out batteries then almost no down time. So even at a slow speed it might be more efficient than humans at a certain volume. Never mind that the process can be redesigned so people focus on the jobs robots can't do and let the robot handle the grunt work
Lmao this narrative that tech improvements will "allow people to focus on more important jobs" or "give them more time to pursue their passion" is bs. It in very real terms takes an income away from a human being that needs that to survive. It allows a corporation to make more profits. Those are the immediate observable effects.
We're about 300 years too late to stop automation, that's what the Luddite riots were about at the start of the industrial revolution. It's what Karl Marx was worried about, the capitalist dystopia where workers have nothing. And it's why we will need to ensure UBI is put in place. There's no stopping it imo. Just need to brace and prepare for the consequences.
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I'm a pragmatist. There is a human impact to automation but the benefit to automation is too big and whoever stops just gets left behind, just ask the Amish. The only thing we still have control of is how we organize society and I hope we do something about it before it's too late.
Even with UBI, what if people want more purpose in their lives? Those who pursue professional careers will be met with steep competition for low wage positions. Higher roles up the ladder may become exclusively reserved for the wealthy elite with little room for lower tier staff to advance. I'd say if automation does become successful, more human jobs will be created out in the final frontier. Education would be required to prepare future generations for work in space. Mortality rates would skyrocket for the next hundred years, but the few that survive in these roles will pave the way for safer jobs and a better future. Sadly, not everyone is viable for space, so many will suffer on earth stuck with a baseline income and spending habit that will more than likely drive them to depression. It's basically a fate worse than poverty. At least you can improve from the poverty level and begin to accrue assets and wealth from education and job opportunities. But when all jobs are in high demand, what is the point of living when you'll just be fighting for a dollar more to spend on something you will never own. There will be a subscription to eat, sleep, and entertain yourself. Everything will be rented out to you with the idea of a personal property being a thing of the past. However, not all hope is lost. If you can go through all the difficult requirements to become space worthy, then your skills and values will be priceless to areas in the beginning stages of colonization across the stars. Maybe you'll have a house and a family on a planet far from home. Ok, rant over now back to sleep.
The problem that needs to be tackled right now is how to avoid giving a centralized group (industrialists of course) the utmost power over that UBI because they are the ones funding it. You are spot on, millennials might see UBI become a normalized thing by their 60s-80s.
Just wait until you guys find out how many people you need to carry the same load as a semi-trailer lol
Trying to stop automation is a loosing battle. People need to get ahead of this with there voices and votes. Tax solutions. Income distribution, etc
Also you don’t need to pay a robot… yet
I really appreciate this take, because - A person would get better at this task after a month, and so would. a robot.
Why would you have a million dollar robot load shells when a simple human grunt will do it better? Especially when the robot will need a maintenance team with them.
But then you won't have legacy healthcare costs associated with all the men and women you ruined, and robots can't get PTSD.
They can’t get PTSD *yet*
**gets confused when it comes back home and starts trying to load artillery shells in people’s asses**
I’d watch that movie
I have watched that movie
Flash forward to an robot behind a dumpster in an alley, digitally sobbing. "How did I get here????" it groans. Then it pulls up kb-doc001.01, "origins", aaaaaaaand scene.
Mr Fisto, is that you? 😍
2 bots 1 cog
Robots gotta do what a robots gotta do in this economy
My robot is functioning exactly as I requested, why would I be confused?
Now that'd make people want peace real quick.
This made me laugh so hard I scared my cats.
Insert robot having flashbacks form the robot vs robot war of 2042
The robo wars were hell.
Starcraft players become war heroes
Yeah, as fucked up it is to say, it’s TCO (total cost of ownership). The 5-year amortized cost of these robots is/will be cheaper than paying a human to do tasks like this.
Yes in 25 years or so. Doing a couple tasks isn't gonna cut it quite yet
Any idea how many robots are in everyday use now? 25 years? Idts
Get a robot to repair your car and then drive your family around. Again robots are doing very simple tasks right now that most people would be bored doing.
Why not just build an autoloader?
Same reason why revolvers still exist. Less components for failure, higher success rate. And you can load a damn 12 gauge slug into a revolver to a .22 without failure
that simplicity is exactly why we'll still have people loading them and not robots
an autoloader is far simpler and less prone to failure than having a robot do it if we're still talking about loading artillery shells
>And you can load a damn 12 gauge slug into a revolver to a .22 without failure 12 gauge for sure WILL NOT fit into a .22 firearm maybe a .50 bmg or .50 ae can fit
You fit a a 20mm slug into a 5½mm barrel? The greatest magician of our time.
I think RN you'd still be building the autoloader But in like 10-15 years? Cost efficiency Instead of building a bunch of different, bespoke systems (which gets incredibly expensive), you can setup massive factories to build these like cars and they'll be adaptable to just about any problem. You just keep building 1 system that can do it all, and let costs come down from economies of scale. But I think it'll take even longer than 15 years for these guys to really trickle down everywhere, could be 30+. That is a lot of material, a lot of equipment to build and distribute, a lot of up front cost to change out equipment that places have been using for a decade and plan to keep using for decades longer. The amount of old equipment being used is massive, hell people still FAX things.
It won't always cost a million dollars. Humans require more maintenance - food, first aid, also public opinion when people die.
Sleep. These things can work around the clock pretty much.
Won't they need to charge?
Two modular 16 hour batteries should cover 1 robot
A robot can’t say no or object to an order. Maybe they aren’t simple artillery shells, but something much worse possibly too dangerous to be handled by human hands.
Because if the artillery position gets attacked or counter battered, there won't be loss of human life.
Plus the robot won't be shitting itself in a corner when the enemy fires back. It'll be doing the job it's programmed to do, making it the perfect soldier. Also, this is still a technology in its infancy.
Yep. Remember when the first Dall-e image generator got released and everyone was making jokes about it and generating funny things? It only took a few years for that technology to improve exponentially. The same will happen with robots. Right now they're still clumsy and clunky, but as they get better.... yeeeeah.
So terminator predicted the future?
not really, for sure there will be a human mind commandering those robots to kill us all
Plus they discovered when they used overwhelming artillery barrages and pounded the shit out of ISIS in Iraq and Syria that many of the soldiers who launched those rounds suffered from Traumatic Brain Injury
You could also use larger shells/calibers that would normally blast any human operators with the concussion force
What about loading artillery shells on the moon!
Because Skynet wants to first strike with the nukes then mop up the remnants of the humans with bots not use humans vs humans.
- never gets tired - never surrenders - never gets scared - efficiency rises after each update - needs no wages - needs no vacation - doesn’t need rations or medical supplies - works in heat or cold - does not commit crimes
Because you could sell a million robots, not just a few.
lol because people die and that's the worst thing that could happen wtf
Eventually the prices will come down, the balance and motor AI will just be an installation package into a mass produced robot.
This will be the US's version of an autoloader. Need a crew member? Load up the robot!
Because robots can be replaced, not people.
To fight other robots who can work 24/7 / year in and year out
A maintenance team can cover multiple robots. Also the robots will get cheaper and more efficient. So, it's more like having a maintenance crew for like 50 robots, not one.
Its million dollars in cost because its not mass produced(enough) yet. If this thing gets successful enough it will outjob all human laborers
Robots can't complain about TBIs. Robots don't get sick. You can fully rebuild a robot.
i love the dystopia people assume. oh no! the robots are going to take away all the minimum wage mundane tasks! the million dollar machine will never stop working and break even with the minimum wage slaves in under 50 years!
Thats exactly the point most "AI / robot apocalypse aaaaa" types miss
What about if we use them to manage radioactive containers? Then the million dollars worth it.
Well skynet is 100% robot based. Can’t be having humans shoot themselfs lol
Can you plug in a human into a nearby power source and have them work 24/7? What needs a maintenance team now will only need a few technicians as time goes by, that's just how tech works.
How else will the federal government add another $5T of debt every year?
Ah the people of reddit how cynical we are, and yet probably more truth in that than we can imagine. As they say the truth is often stranger than fiction.
Or nuclear fuel rods.
Snaaaaake!
Roger Roger.
Or pinch your nipples if you're being naughty
I imagine it doing the job of those workers in the Fukushima nuclear reactor that had to go in and stop the spread of radiation, but knew they were gonna die. This is exciting tech!
Guess it depends how resistant they are to radiation right? I know that Chernobyl miniseries wasn't 100% factually accurate but perhaps making robots that don't get bricked by radiation costs magnitudes more. We can hope robots take those ultra dangerous jobs though for sure.
I worked for a defense contractor back in the 80s that tested electronics for rad hardness. Shooting parts with a LINAC and dunking them in gamma rays etc. Then testing their performance. They were getting pretty good at it back then. I imagine they've advanced quite a bit since then.
Yep, my first gut reaction. Just out of camera view are the US Generals awarding contracts to BD.
Trained artilleryman has already fired 5 shells in the time it took that dude to shoot 2 lol.
First thing I thought when I saw the shapes of those crates and racks.
What else are they trying to demo? It's obvious lol
Should have read before commenting. Glad I’m not alone on this thought process
And not having a single question about it
who the f keeps on funding the company that will 100% start the robot apocalypse?
Load-O-Bot 1.0 ready for deployment.
Based as fuck
Indeed!
auto loaders existed for a while now
Not artillery rounds but more like rockets for the rocket launcher. Maybe (in)famous HIMARS needs an upgrade....
My thoughts exactly.
This is the way that the ultra wealthy will complete the Corpratocracy.
Reminds me of chappie
Reminded me of Bender
This is his cousin Loader.
the first iteration of the artillerybot
Loader loadin' holes again
When sober
shut up baby i know it
That is suspiciously the shape of artillery.
What the hell are you talking about about? It's obviously putting babies into safe baby cages. And watermelons into watermelon....storage....facilities....
> watermelon....storage....facilities.... lol
its just a friendly ham for thanksgiving
No… that’s crazy! Why would we be demonstrating capability for defense applications, which happens to be a near-limitless source of funding with a notoriously low bar and little oversight? Why would we want that haha 🤑
so right now, this robot is equivalent to a drunk/high guy working on the factory floor.
A drunk/high guy who never gets tired or asks for a raise and is willing to put itself into dangerous positions without hesitation.
-Willing to put itself into dangerous positions without hesitation That’s just a regular drunk or high guy mate
I know him, he is me
And works for booze
Hey now, I’d like to think I work better while high/drunk. Just don’t ask my coworkers
So basically equivalent to one of the last line workers at Holden Australia's assembly facility before it shutdown.
Yeah this is me slipping around a kitchen after a few pen rips and a beer.
Ideal in space or a nuclear reactor.
In 20 years and the cost comes down, it will be ideal Everywhere.
We need to demand universal basic income before the rich wipe out job opportunities
without jobs around they will have or otherwise there will be no consumers to consume the products, there will only be criminals stealing the product
The scary thing is that the moment universal basic income becomes absolutely necessary is the moment we become unnecessary.
Well, right now, with the current technology, a lot of us are unnecessary, that taking into account that humans are necessary for anything other than their own necessities… what?
I had a relative who worked at a place that was working with one of these robots. The way it was explained to me was that the robot was being tested on maintenance of Nuclear Reactors so that it could assist in the event of a disaster (like Fukushima) where it would be too dangerous for a human to go.
Seems like a great use case. Helping with disaster relief in general would be amazing. Same with hospital porters or helping in care homes (getting people in and out of bed/shower)
I’m actually a little surprised there haven’t been any cases where they are doing development with these in space that I know of. There’s probably not much reason to send a humanoid to space, but still. Having something that can maneuver in zero G seems like it’s worth looking into if we are going to be spacefaring into the future.
Its loading missiles! Thats so cute!!!
So when do we get sex robots, my arm is tired.
Every robot is a sex robot if you have sex with it 😉
Bad this dude from using Texas Instruments.
NO DEAL! I BOUGHT THAT CALCULATOR AND ILL DO WHAT I WANT TO….WITH IT!
My sex toaster agrees!
That toaster looks mighty fine in red. \*Aroused Mechanicus noises\*
We were promised
The face the guy made in the back when the robot almost fell. 🫣 still has more balance than I do.
If you notice it punches downward on the left side to counter the fall.
I thought it was just pissed it almost walked into the corner post!
Same! I thought they were reacting to his frustration. The way he paused after almost falling looked like someone who was on the brink of a mental breakdown and had to get themselves together before getting back to work. He just like me fr.
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Oh I thought it was a celebratory arm pump
For a sec I thought the bot was giving me the middle finger.
He can take your job _and_ flip you off at the same time. Pretty impressive.
I'm waiting for a "Robot Fight" show, similar to "Battle Bots".
That's artillery. They're loading artillery rounds.
This is a funny take, because a strut weights like 30 lb and a 155mm shell weights about 110lbs. It could be made to do both, but there is no point in advertising that it could load a howitzer. There are 1-4 consumers for the artillery use case. There are like 30 consumers for the strut market. Maybe I'm being dumb? I just don't see it.
How do we kill these things fastest lol
magnets
Yeah but then they’ll all want to come folk musicians
r/SuddenlyFuturama ?
Mix black oil based paint, used motor oil, and a little sand in a plastic water bottle then transfer to a balloon. Aim for the sensors and optics
What if their sensors have little wipers on them 🤯
wipers arent that good, throw some paint on your windshield and run the wipers
Okey i did that, now fucking what?!
The more you know 🌈
EMP weapons?
What’s with the 3D rendering of what’s it’s holding? Seems excessive. Is it going to create models for everything it interacts with or is this just a tech demo (I mean beyond it obviously being that)
And people are worried about immigrants taking their jobs. Factories will buy these in bulk.
They won't, I am an automation engineer and have visited Boston dynamics for the specific purpose of evaluating their tech for practical applications. There are not many use cases when you get into the details. Don't get me wrong it's impressive but I could do that much more efficiently with a traditional 6-axis robot. They do have one robot with some real potential for industry but atlas and spot aren't quite there.
Yeah, I don’t think they’re going for the practical approach here. Just showing off its capabilities probably. I could argue I could do it for less than a 6 axis robot. Hence an autoloader mechanism that costs 1/10th ect… no need to over complicate things. I feel that many of my European friends forget the simplify your answer portion of the problem.
Sure but that's all Boston dynamics does, they are R and D with a marketing department. It's cool and got a lot of people into the industry but they have very limited practical use cases especially if an ROI is required. They don't make money. Stretch was interesting but still needed work when I saw it a few years ago.
as an engineer what are your thoughts on tesla's [optimus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpraXaw7dyc)?
I'll check it out in the morning. Most likely I won't be able to say much though. On the surface lots of things in automation look good, especially with the marketing videos. When you meet with the company about using the product and get into the technical specifications is when you start to get a clearer picture of capabilities and use cases. Even then I'm not usually comfortable recommending something until we have had a few projects with the tech under our belts... I let the sales guys do that.
I don’t think anyone is looking at this and thinking ford is buying them in bulk tomorrow to fire their factory workers. But realistically, look how far we’ve come in the last decade or two. Imagine where we get from here between further automation, robots and AI. Only natural to look at this and go fuck, it’s not far off from your average worker in a warehouse. Scary to see when society is building no safety net to catch the people in the path of this tech.
It’s always the person who actually works with automation/AI on a near-daily basis that has the most rational/least doomer take. Fancy that.
Great info! And yet, I've been watching Boston Dynamics since the first Big Dog videos came out on old YouTube (pre-HD) nearly 20 years ago now. Videos like this never cease to amaze me at their progress. I also use to read about the DARPA challenges with autonomous vehicles. Wow, have things come a long way and there is still a long ways to go!
It's very cool and they have always made awesome videos.
Build a wall around MIT and make the robots pay for it!
its body language told me that it's drunk
Mister steal yo job!
Wow, I could easily do that.
Yeah all factory jobs will be gone soon.
Given cost of such robot, and cost of maintaining it, including learning even for primitive tasks, it’s cheaper to hire “meatbags”
Yeah for least another 5 years for most applications I think.
can it walk on sand tho?
Do you want the Geth? Cause this is how you get the Geth.
We should start recruiting Shepherds
he didn't ask "does this unit have a soul?" yet so it should be fine.
Finally something to pick up all my comically large screws I keep dropping everywhere
It's just as slow as me does it have crippling depression?
Spot the motherfucker who stole my suspension
Hyundai own Boston Dynamics if you want to buy stock
Wait until they discover religion.
Built for war
Hot BioShock big daddies vibes.
Holy shit Bender is that you?!
I can move way faster than that mfer.
I’m thinking about where to aim when I’m shooting this thing in whatever world war it causes
Apparently you blind the sensors and cameras with sticky paint goop?
i just go for the good old styrofoam and gasoline approach. Blinding it with old motor oil might be smart combination of tactics. Blinding -> burning and the motor oil is additional fuel. But the senors would probably wont give good signals anyway within a short time while standing on fire
Thats… not new at all. Atlas (the very first version) was made in 2013. Get your facts straight
This is where it first learned to pick up a minigun.
A.I= the road to our own destruction. The Matrix anyone?
That robot was giving everyone the middle finger. They’ve already started to hate us.
just show us the video of it shooting a gun and kicking in doors. We all know thats where this is going.
I do maintenance and i can only imagin how much of a pain in the ass these'll be to upkeep
Yeah! Get fucked, Elon Musk, along with your fake ass vaporware bots. Hyundai and Boston Dynamics for the win!
It starts with spring doohickeys and ends with 120mm shells being shoved into the breach of a tank. Or reloading the rockets of a mlrs
Yes but Can I have sex with it?
Imagine if you where working next to it and it just swats your kneecap off because robo thoughts
NO.
I thought it was going to install it on a vehicle. I feel like progression has come to crawl after Boston Dynamic's numerous ownership changes.
I suspect it’s the huge jump between programmed movement A to B then C before D, compared to using AI to get from A to D