"What the investors want to know is, not how fast they can run..." but whether they can fire a rifle?

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[–] 15 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

Them crashing into the wall and having stretchers being pulled out for them is really funny.

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  • [–] 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    This tech will eventually be weaponized

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  • [–] 15 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

    I feel like the human shaped stuff won’t be what the terrifying stuff will look like. Too expensive when something smaller will do the trick. But sci-fi has conditioned us to think of robots being human shaped

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    But sci-fi has conditioned us to think of robots being human shaped

    I'm still surprised that they haven't made monkey robots, which would just be human robots except you also have a tail that can function as an additional limb. Stick a camera at the end of the tail and the robot now has 360 degree vision of its surroundings.

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  • [–] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    What upsides does a humanoid killer robot have over, for example a drone killer robot? The latter already exists, can move greater distances at higher speeds, has an extra axis of movement, can get up when it falls over etc etc

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago

    Terrain becomes an asset rather than an obstacle, accessibility as a persistent shock assault and breacher unit, can deliver heavier payloads without having to sacrifice itself in single or tandem strikes, can hold territory, not simply pound it from the air

    A camouflaged humanoid robot with a heavy grenade launcher mindlessly walking far behind enemy lines can do more damage than ten microdrones

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  • [–] 22 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

    Flirting vs harassment meme when it comes to this stuff on here

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  • [–] 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

    People here have issues with LLMs specifically not Machine Learning in general

    I don't think anyone here as a problem with OCR etc, the issue is generative text models and their effect on the job market and people taking their output as gospel

    The robot from the OP uses Deep Reinforcement Learning its not an LLM strapped onto a bipedial robot

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  • [–] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    Bet my car can beat this robot at the 100m too

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    literally like why would I care a machine can go faster than a human? We know that already

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  • [–] 16 points 16 hours ago

    The next thing you see when you break the law is a kamikaze robot running at you faster than Usain Bolt.

    Way too expensive. Why use a 50k robot when that 50k can get more reliable drones and multiple targets.

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  • [–] 14 points 16 hours ago

    Speak a little chinese for them usain bot, blow their mentalities

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  • [–] 12 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

    Only a few years til we see a full robot Olympics, complete with archery and shooting.

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    [–] 6 points 16 hours ago* (1 child)

    Put wheels on him and make him trans

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  • [–] 5 points 15 hours ago

    This is huge. With brain controlling mech legs noone will need whellchairs anymore

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  • [–] 7 points 17 hours ago

    Forrest Gump run into the stands

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago

    it links to a video about "the one question socialism cannot answer" should i leave it here or in slop?

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  • [–] [B] 2 points 17 hours ago

    I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

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