Posted on 01/01/2021 12:12:30 PM PST by Twotone
Boston Dynamics robots can do a lot more than run these days: they can mash potato, they can do the twist and they can dance (hopefully not on our graves after the uprising).
The Massachusetts-based robotics company shot to the top of the YouTube charts this week with a spectacular — and slightly unsettling — new music video, which shows its highly mobile robots dancing to Do You Love Me by The Contours.
The video shows off the tech firm’s impressive achievements in artificial intelligence, including the ability to make a robot dance better than a drunk human at a wedding. The comparison isn’t even close.
“Our whole crew got together to celebrate the start of what we hope will be a happier year,” the Waltham, Mass.-based company wrote on YouTube.
The nearly three-minute video starts with a bipedal Atlas robot jumping, shuffling and hopping around to the music. Its movements are smooth, precise and on beat — just like Patrick Swayze’s in Dirty Dancing.
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That was great
It’s impressive that the thing can stay up and and do those basic steps but they are nothing more than basic timed steps and the bot DOES get behind the beat. Humans alternately move ahead of and behind fluidly. This machine does not. It is just late.
Am I wrong to assume that every act of these robots has to be programmed?
If so, AI is neither artificial nor intelligent.
Great, yes but will they look good after a few drinks? Would you take one home for the night?
I’ve seen worse when the old farts start dancing at the VFW and American Legion...
No we’re screwed before then. These things will obey any command. The globalist elites love that.
“Maybe not this year, or next, but it will happen.”
When? I got to ask Ray Kurzweil, perhaps the pre-eminent AI technology forecaster (Former head of the AI center at MIT, developer of OCR technology that first enabled computers to read text, and a VP at Google/Alphabet, who lead their robotics efforts).
He said that general purpose household robots would be coming out around the last few years of the 2020’s - about as strong, mobile and dexterous as humans.
Once you have machines generally capable of human-like work, the rest is software apps for specific tasks. They could also be operated remotely by human experts, or bigger specialized computers over the network.
“I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.”
There’ll be new robot girlfriends, first. Sex sells.
I’d love to have a robot on site which could make accurate cuts, pick straight lumber, carry 100s of lbs of materials back/forth, hold materials, laser level/plumb, laser measure etc.
I bet an individual robot on site, will take place of 2 or 3 workers one day.
Granted...only for certain tasks and mostly repetitive tasks, but I have hired many workers in the past who are not able to.
Imagine being able to call out a measurement and having it accurately cut, passed to you and have it actually fit every time.
Almost like a mobile cnc...
Just a couple thoughts
By way of thanks for posting the news article, I'm posting the link to the Boston Dynamics youtube video.
Future Robots - Boston Dynamics Robot Family Dance for New Year
There's the dancing dog and a two other bipedal robots...great fun in 1080 to the Contours " Do you love me"
Heck, they can kill and dance too.
Shoot them now while they’re distracted.
Robotic sex dolls are old news, as are the men who are stupid enough to use one.
I would add two thoughts here. One, for new construction at least almost all the tasks would be pre-programmed and there would probably be very little spot decision-making as is currently done with a human worker today. Of course artificial intelligence might be able to provide a certain amount of calculations to be done in the robotic brain in terms of cutting material to length and so forth.
The other factor would be the way houses are built will probably change. Perhaps more pre-fabricated sections that are delivered and assembled on site and put together by machines so they don’t have to cut every stick in the field.
joan rivers reincarnated...
There will no doubt be different models of personal/household robots.
From small monkey-like models for tiny urban apartments to big gorilla-like bruisers for construction or heavy homesteading requirements.
But as the software accumulates for different tasks, pretty much all the robots will be able to do most of the possible functions.
Clean the house, do the laundry, cook the meals, tend the yard and garden, stand guard while you sleep, fix appliances, provide emergency medical treatment, juggle/dance/tell jokes, coach you exercising, tutor the kids, tutor the adults, finish the basement into a playroom.
They may become the preferred Internet interface. Rather than sitting and staring at a screen, your robot might keep talking to you, as you go about, staying right near your side, fussing over you like a personal assistant.
With a few drinks in them, they’d stomp over their partner’s feet.
LOL
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