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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 4d ago edited 4d ago
Chappie if you want to be in the gang you have to be cool, like daddy! Look how daddy walks! Look how cool it is! Need to keep it gangsta' Chappie!
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u/jamie2988 4d ago
Such a good movie!
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u/NuggetNasty 4d ago
Def underrated
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u/Fafnir13 4d ago
I went into it with high hopes because I love District 9. Unfortunately, it did not quite fit my tastes. Maybe there was a little too much time spent with the weird band who got to star in a movie. The ending also left me vaguely uncomfortable. They can make infinite “mommies” from that factory, but they act like they are saving/restoring the actual person instead of just making a digital copy. I guess I found it far more of a dystopian ending than a happy ending.
Not a bad movie, but for this specific subject matter Short Circuit already covered a lot of similar material and did so without making me concerned about a machine uprising.
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u/illumadnati 4d ago
i’m begging you guys to stop being mean to the robots, i do NOT want this thing chasing me down the street doing backflips
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u/Siberian_Pootis 3d ago
this is a part kf their training. overwise they would not be able to learn how to get up
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u/SummoningInfinity 4d ago
It feels like almost every day there's a piece of news that feels like deja vu from dystopian fiction.
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u/Mercurius_Hatter 4d ago
Yeah terminator franchise feels getting closer and closer everyday.
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u/PantsShidded 4d ago edited 4d ago
"In today's news the Arasaka Corporation acquired Boston Dynamics as a linchpin for their new Cyber Warfare Division. Director of Marketing Katsuhiro Otomo stated that "this will place Arasaka at the forefront of non-human combat systems for decades to come.". Now here's Bill with sports.... "
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u/cptavg 4d ago
We need these to do the dishes, not backflips.
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u/macedonianmoper 4d ago
Yes! If only we had a machine able to wash dishes...
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u/PatchworkRaccoon314 4d ago
Correction: a machine able to wash dishes, that didn't first require you to half-wash the dishes.
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u/Naijan 3d ago
You shouldnt wash your dishes before the dishwasher, rinse/scrape of solid foods is the only thing you need to do
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u/PatchworkRaccoon314 3d ago
Meaningless semantics. If you've already got the dishes in the sink to scrape and rinse them, you've done half the work and might as well just wash it at that point.
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u/SickCallRanger007 3d ago
Y’all wash your dishes? Next thing you’ll tell me you wash your beard, too. Wasted yummy morsels of food for later…
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u/hail_deadpool 4d ago
The way Boston Dynamics robots and Open Ai are progressing plus the recent breakthrough in quantum computer by Google makes me think that we're not so far away Terminator time-line
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u/precious_armory 4d ago
Are these things actually sold/used for anything yet?
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u/-Slurm- 4d ago edited 4d ago
Only their spot and stretch line, Boston dynamics has the most advanced robotics in the world. Their robots are basically a benchmark for everything else. United States Department of defense gets first dibs.
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u/mistahnuff 4d ago
Don't forget Stretch! Our other robot on the market! E-atlas is well on its way to being functional. Just always remember, the things we show you are just a sliver of what they can do!
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u/santorinichef 4d ago
If I recall correctly they have pledged not to weaponize their robots.
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u/CaptainoftheVessel 4d ago
How comforting.
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u/Unlikely-Complex3737 3d ago
It's better than OpenAI straight up announcing they are working with Anduril Industries.
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u/OpinionSolid5352 4d ago
Still doing backflips in 2024, is there anything this company has to offer?
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u/Unlikely-Complex3737 4d ago
The previous back flips were done with the hydraulic version. This is the first time they showed a back flip with the new electric version.
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u/mistahnuff 4d ago
This is the new all electric bot. It's actually more impressive than watching the hydraulic one move around. That older bot was mostly R&D for this one, it being hydraulically powered meant it was a nonstarter as a saleable commodity. This new E-atlas is meant to be the product of that research. And always remember, the things that are shown are usually just a small amount of the things they can do.
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u/PatchworkRaccoon314 4d ago
It's a private company in a capitalist country that's making cutting-edge tech with no real world use-case beyond sci-fi fantasies.
They have nothing but lies, empty promises, demonstrations that only fool idiots, and lots of way for you to "invest" in their future success.
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u/mistahnuff 4d ago
I'd strongly urge you to rethink the idea that these have no real world use-case. The current main focus of a lot of humanoid robots(not just BD) is the automotive industry. Moving and placing parts. BMW currently has a test facility doing just that.
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u/number2chevyfan 3d ago
These things cannot perform simple tasks
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u/SickCallRanger007 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yet. This tech is in its relative infancy. It’s like saying aviation isn’t useful because the Wright Brothers couldn’t build an F-35. Or that computing can’t beat a human at simple math because the microprocessor hadn’t yet been developed.
Tech is iterative so you can’t develop gems without developing lots of garbage first, although Boston D’s shit is far from garbage.
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u/mistahnuff 2d ago
I assure you, they can and that they're only getting better day by day. I don't know why you think you're an expert on a subject that you have such a small view of. The other poster below you is correct. Humanoid style robotics are in their infancy so to speak but the founders of Boston Dynamics have really been working on this in some fashion since the 80s. With their previous hydraulic robot Atlas we got it to do all kinds of balancing and carrying of basic objects. That library library of data is over ten years old and is just the starting point for E-atlas. E-atlas is a much more complex bot but is also much more viable as a product and contains a ton of upgrades outside of being non-hudraulic.
I'd urge you to do some actual research on the subject. Seeing these things every day is a trip and the things we show the public is just a small part of what they are capable of.
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u/number2chevyfan 2d ago
Boston dynamics has such a great future and is such a great investment that’s why it keeps getting sold off every two years. All the company has been doing is making shit do backflips and making fake cgi videos of robot dogs doing shit
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u/mistahnuff 2d ago
You can absolutely think that we're doing nothing and that it's all fake if you want to bud. That's on you. Spot and Stretch specifically are well commodified. Stretch is just starting it's life had a handful of vendors who all have nothing but good to say. Our fleet of spots is huge and constantly growing. As much as you'd like to tinfoil hat everything you pretty obviously don't understand, not everything is a conspiracy.
Robotics are the future and it's not a future that is particularly far away. The automotive industry is already implementing humanoid robotics in their work places. BMW currently has two of their facilities running with small test groups of Figure robots on part of their lines.
Spot and "dog" style robots have seen an absolutely insane adoption rate in the industrial sector being able to autonomously or remotely check all kinds of safety features, pressure, and temp readings and a whole lot more.
You can ignore all the really cool stuff robotics is doing, but you are very very quickly going to be proven wrong.
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u/number2chevyfan 2d ago
Maybe you guys would actually get something done if you spent time working instead of writing essays on reddit. I work in a manufacturing plant with robots that drive around and move things about. They suck. I’m not saying there’s not a future for it, but I’d be surprised if it was even in 15 years.
I’m sure your cgi company is great though bro. That’s why it’s traded hands 3 times in ten years
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u/mistahnuff 2d ago
Bet none of those are BD robots ;) your company probably looked at some fake CGI and bought them any way because they're so dumb and now you gotta deal with it. Merry Christmas you very weirdly stubborn, uneducated unbeliever!
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u/Shirotengu 4d ago
Now I want someone or better yet another robot to come in off screen to and drop kick that robot mid backflip.
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u/temotodochi 4d ago
Atlas is damn impressive for a robot. Not that long ago the best we had was Asimo, and it was just .. clunky.
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u/LilGrippers 4d ago
Commenting here for when this thread is showed in schools post the robot wars that we were naive to it all.
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u/Alicia1605 3d ago
I don’t understand how, knowing since now, how dangerous they will be. They keep building them, and irresponsible people keep buying them. It’s like digging your own grave.
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u/Maximum_SciFiNerd 4d ago
That’s a man in a suit, cmon no robot can make a backflip with such accuracy and graceful precision almost 😅 robot like precision. Hmm 🤔
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u/Maximum_SciFiNerd 3d ago
It was a joke I can clearly tell it’s a robot 🤖 was trying to be sarcastic
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u/mistahnuff 4d ago
I assure you it is not.
Source: I work at BD.
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u/Unlikely-Complex3737 4d ago
I'm wondering, since which year did you guys started working on this new electric robot?
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u/The-CunningStunt 4d ago
I dunno man, they did that hoax video a while back
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u/mistahnuff 4d ago
BD has not done a Hoax video. You may be thinking of one of the other humanoid bots. Figure is currently the only real competitor currently to Boston Dynamics. The Tesla bot is mostly puppeted, meaning the things you see it doing is actually someone else remotely controlling it.
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u/mushroom-sloth 18h ago
Make them solar powered and get them working on soil regeneration on the deserted and lifeless parts on the planet like central Australia.
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u/borald_trumperson 4d ago
He knows when you are sleeping. He knows the range, windspeed and humidity when you try to run