Posted on 12/30/2020 8:12:17 AM PST by BenLurkin
Boston Dynamics is dancing into the new year. The Waltham company released a carefully coordinated dance routine featuring their Atlas, Spot and Handle robots.
Earlier this month, the Hyundai Motor Group reached a $1.1 billion deal to buy a controlling interest in Boston Dynamics.
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They will create a version called “KAREN”, it will accost you for not wearing a mask. Then point a laser and say “Comply or DIE.
Gunner
How soon can they replace the NFL and NBA? Mike Brown could get the old ones that fall over easily to be his offensive line for the Bengals. On the plus side, regularly replacing the quarterbot’s knee joint would be a lot faster than on a human.
On your Wedding night, did you want to be there in person? Or receiving a broadcast via remote telemetry?
Same for exploration. Especially off World... Part of the driving force is BEING there in person.
Now that Hyundai is involved they will all rust out in no time.
Your analogy is nonsense.
Even here on earth the environment dictates how we explore unexplored areas. It is the information that advances our understanding of the world and the universe. Our technology and its tools are the products of our minds and extensions of our bodies. When we use them WE are doing the exploring.
A couple of risk-taking individuals do not give to any of us any experiences we ourselves, as individuals, have not done. I did not land on the moon and have no experience of it, vicariously or otherwise.
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Your analogy is nonsense.
Even here on earth the environment dictates how we explore unexplored areas. It is the information that advances our understanding of the world and the universe. Our technology and its tools are the products of our minds and extensions of our bodies. When we use them WE are doing the exploring.
A couple of risk-taking individuals do not give to any of us any experiences we ourselves, as individuals, have not done. I did not land on the moon and have no experience of it, vicariously or otherwise.
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If I were to use your “wedding night” analogy it would have you believing that your friends can personally experience a wedding night, through you. LOL
Guys have enough competition in swing dances, Etc. This will take getting the girl’s the dance what the guy is to a whole new level what the line waiting to step it out with Mister Sparky
Swing Dancing Untamed Youth (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSpWJss5Gjc
They're apparently robust with regard to being pushed or kicked, as long as the impact doesn't damage their exposed parts. But aside from that:
A strong RF/EM source (maybe a microwave transmitter) would likely disable it.
Fire would destroy it.
Two kids with baseball bats or pipes could probably take it down.
It'll have to have a LOT more mechanical and electromagnetic defenses before it's ready for field action.
And fire will remain a problem even if it's heavily shielded, and shielding will inhibit its dance moves considerably.
That’s some scary azz sheet right there, man. No, thank you.
That freaky four-legged beast with the snake head is the stuff of nightmares and I did NOT need to see that dancing in my reality today.
I definitely need a bigger pillow gun and a LOT more Jesus from here on.
If you have not already seen it there is an episode of the British TV show “Black Mirror” called “Metalhead” that you should watch about robot “dogs”.
I watched that last evening, and was disappointed. Yes, it’s only a machine. That’s why the hype was dishonest. The robot dances about like a clumsy white guy....and I am a clumsy white guy; so I know whereof I speak. As I see it, the robot has no FEELINGS. And therefore will never dance like a Mikie Jackson, or a Sammy D., Jr. Or even like a Fred Astaire.....who was a TALENTED white guy.
Money well spent!!!
I hope not.....
These things are mindless: they are essentially a result of searching, sorting and counting - and physical actions taken as a consequence of combinations of these.
Machines have no judgment and they NEVER will. Machines can only follow existing algorithms - they cannot truly understand and they cannot create anything truly new.
Once a vulnerability is found, one can use it on all the rest - and they will all fall the same way.
+1
The analogy was spot on. You just disagree with it.
Which is fine. But you miss so much of the bigger picture, the effect on human psychology, the drive to explore and learn, that is done UP front and IN person.
I can watch medical videos all day long on YouTube... But would you want me doing surgery on you if I hadn’t actually “been there and done that”?
Having information is all well and good, but personal experience cannot be underestimated.
As for Marriage night, look at the damage that “virtual” experiences are doing to real relationships... I rest my case.
“I can watch medical videos all day long on YouTube... But would you want me doing surgery on you if I hadn’t actually “been there and done that”?”
Again, another wrong analogy - off planet exploration vs medical surgery.
We now have troops who fly drones, globally, and remotely, cancelling out the former need and risk for jet pilots, required previously in many situations now replaced by drones under remote control. From drones to full jet aircraft is not far off. Yet you (a) think we have learned nothing from it and (b) ought to unnecessarily re-engage live human pilots in situations where we no longer use them. Just to satisfy some “human need”. LOL
“The analogy was spot on. You just disagree with it.”
No. There was nothing “spot on” about it. It was apples vs oranges.
Cool and terrifying as you know one day they will attack the humans and enslave us.
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