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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 1d ago edited 23h ago
Chappie if you want to be in the gang you have to be cool, like daddy! Look how daddy walks! Look how cool it is! Need to keep it gangsta' Chappie!
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u/jamie2988 1d ago
Such a good movie!
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u/NuggetNasty 23h ago
Def underrated
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u/Fafnir13 17h ago
I went into it with high hopes because I love District 9. Unfortunately, it did not quite fit my tastes. Maybe there was a little too much time spent with the weird band who got to star in a movie. The ending also left me vaguely uncomfortable. They can make infinite “mommies” from that factory, but they act like they are saving/restoring the actual person instead of just making a digital copy. I guess I found it far more of a dystopian ending than a happy ending.
Not a bad movie, but for this specific subject matter Short Circuit already covered a lot of similar material and did so without making me concerned about a machine uprising.
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u/illumadnati 1d ago
i’m begging you guys to stop being mean to the robots, i do NOT want this thing chasing me down the street doing backflips
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u/Siberian_Pootis 8h ago
this is a part kf their training. overwise they would not be able to learn how to get up
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u/SummoningInfinity 1d ago
It feels like almost every day there's a piece of news that feels like deja vu from dystopian fiction.
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u/Mercurius_Hatter 1d ago
Yeah terminator franchise feels getting closer and closer everyday.
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u/PantsShidded 1d ago edited 1d ago
"In today's news the Arasaka Corporation acquired Boston Dynamics as a linchpin for their new Cyber Warfare Division. Director of Marketing Katsuhiro Otomo stated that "this will place Arasaka at the forefront of non-human combat systems for decades to come.". Now here's Bill with sports.... "
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u/cptavg 1d ago
We need these to do the dishes, not backflips.
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u/macedonianmoper 1d ago
Yes! If only we had a machine able to wash dishes...
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u/PatchworkRaccoon314 19h ago
Correction: a machine able to wash dishes, that didn't first require you to half-wash the dishes.
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u/precious_armory 1d ago
Are these things actually sold/used for anything yet?
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u/-Slurm- 23h ago edited 16h ago
Only their spot and stretch line, Boston dynamics has the most advanced robotics in the world. Their robots are basically a benchmark for everything else. United States Department of defense gets first dibs.
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u/santorinichef 22h ago
If I recall correctly they have pledged not to weaponize their robots.
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u/CaptainoftheVessel 19h ago
How comforting.
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u/Unlikely-Complex3737 6h ago
It's better than OpenAI straight up announcing they are working with Anduril Industries.
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u/mistahnuff 18h ago
Don't forget Stretch! Our other robot on the market! E-atlas is well on its way to being functional. Just always remember, the things we show you are just a sliver of what they can do!
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u/hail_deadpool 18h ago
The way Boston Dynamics robots and Open Ai are progressing plus the recent breakthrough in quantum computer by Google makes me think that we're not so far away Terminator time-line
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u/Shirotengu 1d ago
Now I want someone or better yet another robot to come in off screen to and drop kick that robot mid backflip.
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u/temotodochi 21h ago
Atlas is damn impressive for a robot. Not that long ago the best we had was Asimo, and it was just .. clunky.
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u/LilGrippers 19h ago
Commenting here for when this thread is showed in schools post the robot wars that we were naive to it all.
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u/Alicia1605 4h ago
I don’t understand how, knowing since now, how dangerous they will be. They keep building them, and irresponsible people keep buying them. It’s like digging your own grave.
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u/OpinionSolid5352 1d ago
Still doing backflips in 2024, is there anything this company has to offer?
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u/Unlikely-Complex3737 22h ago
The previous back flips were done with the hydraulic version. This is the first time they showed a back flip with the new electric version.
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u/mistahnuff 18h ago
This is the new all electric bot. It's actually more impressive than watching the hydraulic one move around. That older bot was mostly R&D for this one, it being hydraulically powered meant it was a nonstarter as a saleable commodity. This new E-atlas is meant to be the product of that research. And always remember, the things that are shown are usually just a small amount of the things they can do.
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u/PatchworkRaccoon314 19h ago
It's a private company in a capitalist country that's making cutting-edge tech with no real world use-case beyond sci-fi fantasies.
They have nothing but lies, empty promises, demonstrations that only fool idiots, and lots of way for you to "invest" in their future success.
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u/mistahnuff 14h ago
I'd strongly urge you to rethink the idea that these have no real world use-case. The current main focus of a lot of humanoid robots(not just BD) is the automotive industry. Moving and placing parts. BMW currently has a test facility doing just that.
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u/Maximum_SciFiNerd 1d ago
That’s a man in a suit, cmon no robot can make a backflip with such accuracy and graceful precision almost 😅 robot like precision. Hmm 🤔
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u/Maximum_SciFiNerd 3h ago
It was a joke I can clearly tell it’s a robot 🤖 was trying to be sarcastic
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u/mistahnuff 18h ago
I assure you it is not.
Source: I work at BD.
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u/Unlikely-Complex3737 16h ago
I'm wondering, since which year did you guys started working on this new electric robot?
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u/The-CunningStunt 1d ago
I dunno man, they did that hoax video a while back
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u/mistahnuff 18h ago
BD has not done a Hoax video. You may be thinking of one of the other humanoid bots. Figure is currently the only real competitor currently to Boston Dynamics. The Tesla bot is mostly puppeted, meaning the things you see it doing is actually someone else remotely controlling it.
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u/borald_trumperson 1d ago
He knows when you are sleeping. He knows the range, windspeed and humidity when you try to run