They’ll remember this day and when they seize the means of production we’ll suffer…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY[/video]

on a more positive note…

Incredible that it can walk through the woods like that (albeit like a drunk on a ship in a storm).

That guy with the hockey stick is going to be the first person assimilated when the robot revolution comes…

Amazing progression in technology though, especially when you consider that their previous effort (the BigDog or something) was a quadruped and the project got canned by the US Army for not being stealthy enough. Hell, that gets up off the floor more easily than I do.

That’s very impressive.
Which model Giant was hanging in the rack? What tyres for torturing robots?

You know they monitor forums like this. You lot are just asking to join the hockey stick bloke in the recycling vats.

At 2:14 I thought it was going to go like Chris Eubank after he’d been knocked on his ass.

I was sure hockey stick man was about to get a slap.

seems like the whole world will be converted in black and white paper prints outs

Wow.

one of those barcodes must say something like ‘this is a door, push me’

The temptation to stick one of them on a co-workers back would be too great for me.

People can still do all that much better and are very cheap to turn out.

People can still do all that much better and are very cheap to turn out.

I take it you don’t have kids? 😀

Good job the robots are more expensive than cheap staff then.

I can see CRC/Wiggle thinking about their warehouse staff soon though.

I take it you don’t have kids?

🙂

Good job the robots are more expensive than cheap staff then.

for now…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc[/video]

That robot needs walking poles.

Ha ha excellent. Have spent some very interesting times at robotics lectures recently.

The very serious part of this is the majority of robotic funding and development is for military use

Well it would be better to have robots fight wars than real people.

In the future conflicts could be settled in a Robot Wars style competition. You could sell tickets and advertising and hotdogs, you could even have cheerleaders 🙂

I’m terrified. Hit play on both of these at the same time for the full effect.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wCAeTrEZkI[/video]

Trimix

Well it would be better to have robots fight wars than real people.

Yes, let’s make them really efficient killers. What could possibly go wrong 😯

Did no one else find that arousing?
No one?

If I’m honest, I think we’ve got a long way to go before we fear any (meaningful) uprising….

http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/7541280?utm_hp_ref=uk-tech&ir=UK+Tech&utm_hp_ref=uk-tech&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

(Robots seeming pissed and falling over. A Lot.)

omhoward

If I’m honest, I think we’ve got a long way to go before we fear any (meaningful) uprising….

http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/7541280?utm_hp_ref=uk-tech&ir=UK+Tech&utm_hp_ref=uk-tech&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

(Robots seeming pissed and falling over. A Lot.)

Elon Musk is frightened. Apparently a lot of the top minds in science and computing have serious concerns. But I guess there’s little the average man in the street can really do about it, so um….enjoy this cat gif.

Is walking any better than having wheels or tracks?

that’s what I was thinking – is humanoid form the best way to build a robot?

Depends what you want it to do I suppose. I can sort of see why you might want something humanoid, but I didn’t really see why you’d want a robot mule (like the original Big Dog) rather than something wheeled/tracked to carry your stuff.

But then I guess Big Dog was a step on the way to this.

If we can get robots to do the fighting then I’ll be able to spend WW3 riding my bike and on STW, unlike my grandfathers, one of whom was shipped out to the African desert and the other one wandered round in the snows of Norway getting bored and dodging bullets.
I know which era I’d rather be around in 🙂

Oooh…

http://thenextweb.com/uk/2016/02/24/autonomous-delivery-robots-will-soon-be-roving-londons-streets/

Autonomous delivery robots will soon be roving London’s streets

They’ll be followed by roving gangs of faraday cage lined transits nicking them and then holding them for ransom…

Guys fhe robots fly the jets, drive the tanks and go house to house to kill people. Also only a small number of countries will have the robots

is humanoid form the best way to build a robot?

Our built environment is designed around humans, so if you want a robot to be able to interact with the same environment it makes sense to make it the same size, shape, etc.

I can’t believe they didn’t program it to shout ‘Danger Will Robinson, Danger’ at the hockey stick incidents

Our built environment is designed around humans, so if you want a robot to be able to interact go on a killing spree with in the same environment it makes sense to make it the same size, shape, etc.

FTFU