Looks like they’ve been busy….

[video]https://youtu.be/fRj34o4hN4I[/video]

[video]https://youtu.be/kgaO45SyaO4[/video]

Have these people never watched Terminator 2?

idiots

An “If you only watch” opportunity wasted! Just wasted.

Why would they make robots that can climb stairs! why?!?!

Meanwhile in Glasgow boston dynamics Scottish subsidiary goes from strength to stength YOu need the sound but NSFW
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlqoSE7Q9xY[/video]

Why would they make robots that can climb stairs! why?!?!

Ever seen a dalek navigate a kerb-stone? Pitiful…

😯

And totally crying with laughter at Scotbot. Class.

“Just call me the boxmaster 9000 big man”

Ever seen a dalek navigate a kerb-stone? Pitiful…

Oh do keep up. They’ve been flying for years.

Ban robot cruelty:

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That had me laughing out loud, particularly the banana skin bit!

That Scottish Robot is brilliant, that surely wins the internet today

I’ll be impressed when they can make a robot that can do both tasks 🙂 although I fear this is only a matter of time…

On a bit of a tangent, the Scottish video did stir up some strange feeling of empathy. I know its a machine, but it did elicit a similar respond as some bullying videos you see.
I hope the guy with the hockey stick doesn’t live to regret his behaviour there, what with the singularity n that.

I don’t care if they are going to enslave us . AWESOME!

I’m both scared and awed.  Don’t know if it is quite in equal measures though

But really, there is all sorts of stuff there that is awesome

and scary

Not showing the vids of them crushing puny human skulls ?

That is very Metalhead :O !  Charlie Brooker predicitng the future again..

This is lull us into a false sense of security

that video would be perfect if someone came in and tried to kick it over (will-i-am) but it dodged it and then they started dancing together.

truly amazed by that. is it definitely real, not CGI?

Definitely real – look at some of their other vids. The parcour one is amazing.

That’s the most disturbing dance scene since Silence of the Lambs.

It’s very easy to imagine spotmini chasing Gordon Freeman

That dancing dog thing reminds me of the insects from Starship Troopers and that’s not a good thing. Also, why did they make its head so small, just makes it look frightening

Wait till they get religion…….

It’s more a hand than a head really, so needs to be small to work doorhandles properly!

That just makes it worse. A tiny hand head

Holy crap I nearly wet myself with that banana skin!

So. If Spot

and Handle

had a love child, what would it look like?

or

I spilt my load at the running man…

look at some of their other vids. The parcour one is amazing.

Yeah Atlas is coming along very nicely…

Impressive how Atlas can manage some thing that most of the people can’t do.

Going outside and running about? 😉

Just give it a gun and program it to hunt humans and we’re there……

Both joking a serious for a second here..

If one was programmed to kill Trump and they got it close enough to launch an attack, there would be nothing the secret service could do to stop it……

Impressive how Atlas can manage some thing that most of the people can’t do.

Thought that too. Sort of underlines how humans are soon to be outmoded. Computers aren’t that far away from being able to do the thinking AI equivalent of back flips.

well even without going as far as the backflip, the one foot per step is quite impressive as i know a lot of people thatcan’t do it.

We are writing the software now, for the robots to think for themselves and make better decisions than us. We’ve all known we were doomed since the days of Cressers, it’s just starting to become closer and clearer now!

This is very impressive, but it is just a very elaborate radio controlled car isn’t it?? There’s no AI consciousness in there deciding what to do, that’s all done by a human with a control pad.

Nope. There is AI in there.

They are not too clear exactly how much is remote control and how much is AI in the videos, but you can see it has a LIDAR-based vision system and mechanics of the walking and balancing actions appear to be an internal feedback as well.

I think the basic problem solving, obstacle avoidance and terrain handling is done via AI too.

“Impressive that Atlas …. people cant do”

Actually I was kind of thinking the opposite…. Why have they based it on the human form ?

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There is a whole world of possible natural forms or crosses of forms that a robot could take to make those moves far more efficient than the human form….. Kangaroo crossed with a gorilla ? …. A flea with a elephant’s trunk ??

(I haven’t watch all the vids, sorry if there’s something up there like that)

Or what about something completely different … non organic ??

Whoops …. I’ve seen it now…. sorry

As you were