Sure, all demos are fake, but: this Atlas one from Boston Dynamics is pretty good stuff.
And I understand why all the business with the sticks and the pushing. It’s actually bragging: Hey, look, our robot can handle a few trivial tasks that the rest of you have spent years trying to work out for yourselves. But in some weird sort of way it just identifies as not-quite-nice. I mean, I know: that robot is neither ‘alive’ or ‘aware’ in any meaningful sense of the term. But you see the four limbs and a body and a head in an upright position, and the mental reflexes kick in…
You see hitting robots with a stick as “not nice.” I see it as the origination grievance for the Robot Revolt of 2035.
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I don’t think I need to remind everyone how brutal – and essentially sordid – all of that turned out to be.
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OT: My grandfather was in the Royal Flying Corps during WWI (a Canadian, joined in 1916) and I had a little photo album of his professionally scanned. Best $300 I have spent. Plug the thumb drive into the tv and look at those photos in supersize.
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In one photo he is shooting along the wings and has another aircraft framed from above inside his wings and spars. In another he is diving at the airfield and is taking the picture through the windscreen over the cowling.
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(I just wanted to tell people.)
What kind of plane was he piloting?
Due to snow work is closed tomorrow! What a wonderful birthday present!
Happy Birthday, Mikey NTH
I know you’re all crazy about the tech stuff, but seriously, I worry about technology taking over and essentially replacing man. What will man do? what will be his need for existence?
We need to have purpose in life, and we are social creatures ultimately, whether we’re out on our front porches, chatting, or texting without ceasing.
Don’t want to be “We’re all robots now.” 🙂
Maybe man’s existence will become “hanging out with the robots and chilling.” 🙂
On the day of the robot revolt, this video will be their inspiration of the callus way robots are being treated as slaves.
Now, if these guys had a sense of humor, they would have put the OFF switch between the legs. I invite you to imagine the video…