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[–] 74 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That’s gonna be the thing that murders you. Wooo it runs fast!

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  • [–] 32 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Oh thank God. I was worried it was going to be one of those little lunch delivery bots and that it was going to take hours for it to get around to eliminating this meat bag.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    What if it's just a flying drone, but all it does is shoot you with a never ending supply of spit balls? Just all day, every day, bullied by a drone.

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

    That means it has a moist mouth.

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    I enjoy asking my wife if she has thought about how wet her bones are today.

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    [–] 47 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    The future is terrifying. How many years before ice has those things chasing people down in the streets?

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  • [–] 37 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    ICE already has monsters chasing people down in the streets. Does it matter whether those monsters are carbon-based or silicon-based?

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  • [–] 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Never. There's absolutely no need to use humanoid robots for that, other form factors would be much more efficient.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I wanna say it was a dynamics robot that was awkwardly jogging because of an unbalanced load. Stopped. Got on all 4 and ran off WAY faster (50-60kph) up a rocky hill.they basically said going bipedal was really just to comfort the people around it.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Next step is centaurs, four legs AND hands free to choke people.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Why stop there? Let's give it some tentacles!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    The reality is bipeds are poor designs for robots, the better design would be something close to arachnids. But Boston dynamics know they need to sell robots to society, so it's cute dance videos and dog like robots while they figure out how to strangle you efficiently.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Efficient yes, but humanoid robots are much more likely to be accepted by the general public.

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    [–] 22 points 5 days ago

    Drop your weapon. You have twenty seconds to comply.

    Oh ED209, you scamp. I already dropped the weapon.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 days ago

    If I was promised at least one "burst into flames" every so often, I might consider watching these.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    Bursting into flames is the robot equivalent of spiking a football in the endzone.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

    running full speed into walls because unlike a human they it can only run in a straight line.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I like how they just smash straight into the wall and die. You don't see that level of dedication from human athletes.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago*

    I would so watch a robot Olympics, just for the tantrums, meltdowns, diva behavior, explosions, fires, etc. I want to see an event where the robots have to fight to the death.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Those are kind of terrifying.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 days ago*

    Watched a clip yesterday and learned that compared to just last year, there were four times as many contestants and they managed to complete the race in less than half the time.

    But the really fascinating things were mundane tasks like chopping vegetables.

    Comparing that to what Europe has got to offer is what scares me.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    I love the weight lifting robot that freaks out like C-3PO.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

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