Truly impressive. Either I have been alive for a long time or the rate of progress is accelerating. I thought we were decades away from this.
Yeah I treated all of the stated limitations of MIT robotics projects for the next 25 years as universal & wasn’t aware of the progress in manufacturing + logistics until say 2019
Very nice
Also very scary as this is just the next step after what Boston dynamics has already shown. You can bet your ass that military leaders are jerking off over these things
Granted, their battery life will still be Abysmal but that too is being resolved over time.
I’m not afraid of self aware terminators. I’m afraid of sad dictators with tiny penis syndrome getting access to shit like this in, say, a decade from now.
I think most of this is choreographed. Autonomous killing machines are probably a few weeks away
Does anyone actually want this? Like it’s kind of interesting but is it actually something anyone wants?
What do you mean, as entertainment? Most people currently seem entertained by these.
But this is just getting started.
As helpful androids? Sure, can it one day clean my house and do my shopping? I’d buy one (though I suppose they would have some awful privacy problems).
As military robots? Can they one day operate a tank? Carry and fire weapons? I can think of a few people that want that.
Well there you go… I guess I am in the minority on this. I don’t want these things anywhere near me or my family.
But yes I can imagine cops loving the idea of these things crushing protestors throats in the street.
Yes I can see some really altruistic uses for these but they’re outweighed by the malicious ones.
Like RING cameras and the other brands, would be super cool to help locate lost children and elderly but bad people are going to use them for fascism.
I imagine a display such as this drives Elon mad with the dismal human-dancing-in-a-costume display he put on for his completing product. If true, I want this.
It’s a demonstration of capability, not utility.
Let’s see how well they can run in the forest.
Chat, are we cooked?
time to learn Chinese.
"In German, oder English
I know how to count down,
Und I’m learning Chinese,
Says Wernher Von Braun"
How do I say “please don’t harvest my organs I am a smoked and alcoholic since the age of 11 !” In Mandarin?
Don’t worry, one look at you and they’ll know you’re not worth harvesting.
Wrong country
you do realize that’s propaganda spread by a cult that convinces people they can purify their organs to the point of gaining levitation abilities right?
Propaganda of what ? The robots will collect human organs so they can finally solve the trolley problem. Needs many MANY repetition of the experiment. They just happened to understand only Mandarin because they were created in China.
They don’t need your trashed organs, they will kick you so much that all of them explode
No they won’t
you don’t have to say that, the social-score app will show that to everyone who looks you up.
not a real thing
Butlerian Jihad when?
Broken link
We really do live in the cyber punk dystopia predicted. It’s just way less neon lights.
They’ll release a gamer version of these robots with RGB don’t worry.
only if you live in upper north america; western europe; or australia. lol
That’s damn true. All of SE Asia is basically a neon (*actually LED) vortex
i wish i could move there
Sigh… I mean… I tried. And while there is much to be said for it, there is a lot to be said against it too. It’s kind of a win some lose some deal. Depends on where you live. If I was in the USA I’d fuck right off to basically anywhere, and SE Asia wouldn’t be a bad bet. Thing is, they don’t just accept people willy nilly. Unless you want to endure a permanent border hopping enema, you need a work visa, student visa, or retirement visa, and those all come with their own hurdles.
Good luck tho, I can def vibe with the sentiment.
Whoa what the hell, that’s insane!
Looks nice. Not excited to be fighting to the death on some random hill surrounded by a thousand of these.
Don’t worry, you’re much more likely to be instantly annihilated by a tiny suicide drone.
Can i have it arrive before my next rent payment?
They probably won’t splurge for the emp proof coating.
We in the west don’t even remember what a society can achieve without the bloodsucking billionaire parasites and shareholders siphoning off wealth. For us that would be “splurging”, for less insane societies it would be common sense.
Well at least they seem short so we should be able to just throw them or kick them over with ease
have you seen the little boxing matches they set up with these? they’re so silly
Why do they look mocap and not robotic? Like if it’s a robot, the movements should be far more efficient and literally robotic looking. This just looks like “look, we can make them execute scripted macro movements with micro auto adjustments”. Which is an achievement in itself, but not exactly as advanced as this video suggests at face value. I could be wrong, but something about it feels off to me and this is just my guess as to why.
because that’s what this is. Premade animations choreographed and scripted.
BUT
Do you have any idea what insane technology in soft and hardware is neccessary to make this happen?
this is beyond impressive, and China is way ahead of everyone else. Electric cars, Robotics, Renewable energy, medical research, Drone technology. The west needs to get rid of the incompetent conservatives that cling to a world that no longer exists or the west is the new third world.
Yeah, don’t compare them to the ideal in your head. Compare them to the best their competitors have put out there.
You know, like the assholes here in the US that would just have humans remote control them from the next room to get worse results. And yeah of course China can lie and fake shit too, but I think this would probably be just as impressive if they were all mimicking the movements of a mocap-suited athlete off stage.
That’s extremely impressive. As soon as these can do this stuff on random surfaces and with spatial awareness then we are probably past the event horizon for some significant, scary and futuristic shit.
Now that’s what i call a flex of your technological power between tradition and modernity. Fantastic performance.
Random thought, I know it’s still better to not have wars at all, but future wars would be nicer and more fair if losing meant receiving a knock-out kick in yo nuts from a martial art master robot instead of being killed by random boring drones.
Not as clumsy or random as an
imperial trooperUS Marine, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Meanwhile teslabots can’t even pour a drink
The first ever teslabot demonstration was an actual human in a costume, pretending to be a robot…
China out here with scripted robots that while not super useful can show off the limits of our technology in impressive ways.
America. Back to slavery but with a metal exterior
Lmao!
Are we sure this isn’t AI made video? This looks so unreal to me. Last time I saw human robots, they didn’t even go up in the staircase.
it would be very very good AI made, and i have seen those robots do these things in tech demos before, so they definitely exist.
