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[–] 73 points 1 month ago (1 child)

They seem to do more damage to themselves when falling over than actually inflicting anything on their opponent…

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  • [–] 64 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I can picture these wearing cop uniforms, running you down at night for jaywalking ,and believe it may be one of our possible futures.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I’m pretty sure the odds of this are 100%. Except it’ll be military bots… and they’ll be purging the poor and middle class, because once you have robots to do all the other stuff the next step is to reduce the population.

    If you and your group control all the raw resources and manufacturing is fully automated, and you have robots smart enough to do all the manual tasks, you don’t need profit, you get to wipe out most of the population and create your paradise.

    Not enough people realize we are morlocks, and the Billionaires think they are the Eloi

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    But how quickly will hackers be able to gain total control of them? Cops will probably have the administrator password as "password123" or some shit. Or maybe instead of engaging in combat directly, they'll just be running humanoid cameras, lunging after you no matter how quickly you run, or whatever fence you jump over. Long gone will be the days when you could simply outrun the overweight, poorly trained cops. Now these things will be just inches behind you, the whole way blaring sirens and recording your every move. 😐

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    [–] 59 points 1 month ago

    The acronym immediately made me think of this.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I’d still put my money on a battle bot any day of the week.

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    [–] 44 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    "What?! Your heads off!"

    "Tis' but a flesh wound! HAVE AT YEE!"

    *I love how one of the presenters is choke-laughing the whole time after it's head comes off

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago

    This show is obviously just to bait people into making better fighting robots for the military, free of charge.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This looks sad. The obsession with humanoid robots is making less and less sense by the decade.

    Support your local robot battle scene.

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    [–] 17 points 1 month ago

    Pointless if their heads don't pop straight up and make a "ziiiiiiing" sound.

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  • [+] 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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    [–] 16 points 1 month ago

    So that's gonna be our future. Fighting robots that uncannily get back up with their head dangling on their back.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    They didn't even hit each other

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    They way they get up is pretty cool, but they each have one jump kick attack and nothing else? Those deathbot matches from the early aughts are way cooler.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Looks real the same way WWE looks real. I mean, you gotta love the skill/tech used to achieve these feats, but real robots fighting with no restraint wouldn't need to take a few seconds to dick around after every kick.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I guess it is like watching toddlers walk, but why the random breakout into dance moves? Also how do they target? Seems like they just generally point at the other one.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    My guess is that they are remote controlled and the operators of the white robot saw that they were winning, so they hit the dance button in the hopes of scoring some points with the audience.

    Instead of fighting each other they should do a laundry folding competition. That would be really impressive!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Can we have Hugh Jackman pilot a robot?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    He can't, he's busy fellating Rupert Murdoch.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    What?

    (Out of the loop. Don’t know how to unpack that statement.)

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    He's literally the godfather to Murdoch's daughter.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Well that’s fucking disappointing wtf

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    yeah seeing him dancing in those stupid fucking AGI commercials now makes me hate him. I tried to watch a cute movie called the Sheep Detectives, and as soon as I saw his dumb ass face I had to turn it off.

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  • [+] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It doesn't look like they're autonomous to me, it looks like they have a pre-programmed set of movements (like the kick-variants we're seeing, and the "get up" motion), and being controlled by someone outside the ring. That also fits with the way they're missing: it's hard to get proper alignment when you're looking from the side, and the pattern for how they're missing looks a lot to me like how you often miss if you try to line up e.g. a remote controlled toy car on an opening to drive through when you're sitting off to the side.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Total dogshit game

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This will probably be awesome 10-20 years from now.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's very clear none of y'all remember the seminal film Real Steel

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Looks like the same when I let my kids play tekken the first time.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Flashback to my first attempts at playing the original arcade Virtua Fighter

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  • Should get Jaleel White to host it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    When I was a kid we had a game called Rockem Sockem Robots (sp?) and knocking the head of was the definition of winning.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Are they autonomous or do they have pilots? I feel like a human touch would make the fights a lot cooler. Like in that one Love, Death and Robots episode.

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    This looks so fun haha

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    It's like watching blindfolded "show" martial artists

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    OMF2097 had really good music...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Looks like they got a ways to go yet

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