wow this really has the potential to revolutionize the adult film industry
Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video]
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Re: Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video]
#72I'd like to see it fall and recover. These videos just aren't what they used to be since they stopped kicking them robots.
Handle looks like it can kick back.
Actually it looks to me as though the legs cannot move sideways at all, only forward/back/up/down. If that's true it would be nearly impossible for Handle to stand on one leg or even raise one leg for long enough to perform a decent kick without falling over.
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#73Has boston dynamics put these things to some real usage? They 've been showing impressive videos for 7, 8 years?
For a while they were under military contract for these, but the versions they built were expensive to maintain, but also much too loud. The military contract was removed, but i think as a result they worked towards making them more simple and more quiet.
In the end though they're still building prototypes as R&D to try and find something that can be polished into a product.
here's a video with commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giS41utjlbU
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#74This is really cool tech, but given the current political state, I can't help but worry about a powerful army of robots -- presumably with weapons attached -- being put into the hands of a leader we might consider to have "unreliable" judgement. I wonder: if a country can deploy an army of robots to achieve its military ends, how does that play out in the long run? Does this mean future wars will just be "our" droids…
What is even the point of having a war once you are fighting with robot armies? Why not just throw a coin and hand the country over to the side that picked the correct outcome? Use an unfair coin to correct for military strength. Or each side sends its best players for a game of Risk or Rock, Paper, Scissors or Command and Conquer. You get a winer and a loser, it does not take years and costs a fortune and you avoid…
It won't work because actually enforcing a meaningful loss requires a real war.
Otherwise, no matter if you believe if you have got a 50% or 10% chance of victory (or even no chance, but a certainty of painful losses for the opponent) then it makes all kinds of practical sense for the loser to say "screw the coin/game" and simply ignore the result and escalate it further.
If a reasonable settlement acceptable to both sides can be negotiated, then it doesn't need the coin or game in the first place; and if someone can enforce the conditions on the loser without a horrible cost, then there's no need for a game or a war since it can be done as a simple ultimatum.
Re: Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video]
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Handle looks like it can kick back.
Actually it looks to me as though the legs cannot move sideways at all, only forward/back/up/down. If that's true it would be nearly impossible for Handle to stand on one leg or even raise one leg for long enough to perform a decent kick without falling over.
This must be fixed.
Re: Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video]
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is even the point of having a war once you are fighting with robot armies? Why not just throw a coin and hand the country over to the side that picked the correct outcome? Use an unfair coin to correct for military strength. Or each side sends its best players for a game of Risk or Rock, Paper, Scissors or Command and Conquer. You get a winer and a loser, it does not take years and costs a fortune and you avoid…
It won't work because actually enforcing a meaningful loss requires a real war. Otherwise, no matter if you believe if you have got a 50% or 10% chance of victory (or even no chance, but a certainty of painful losses for the opponent) then it makes all kinds of practical sense for the loser to say "screw the coin/game" and simply ignore the result and escalate it further. If a reasonable settlement acceptable to both…
For lack of a better word, that was meant more cynical than something that has actually any chance of working. It just seems to be a somewhat logical continuation of the idea of a war where everyone just sends robots to the front lines to fight things out. But you are of course right, the correct conclusion is probably that there can not be a war just fought by robots.
After one robot army has defeated the other one it has to go after human soldiers, assets or even civilians to achieve a victory or must at least be willing to do so unless the opposing country surrendes at this prospect. Just defeating the robot army and then doing nothing will not be effective beyond the inflicted loss of resources.
Re: Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video]
#77That jump!
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#78Get that thing away from me!
Re: Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video]
#79Couldn't this will be very effective in the delivery business we see, amazon, postmates and grubhub undertaking in urban areas?
How about single -seat self driving mobility device https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rukmDZc3EiA
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#80I can't wait for weapons to be attached to this thing so it can be used against us in the future. Imagine the part where it was spinning, but instead with a firing automatic weapon. What prevents democracy from collapsing when a certain technical elite control the most powerful autonomous weapons and keep tabs on everyone's daily lives?
Someone still has to man the lengthy manufacturing and supply chains to build these things and their consumables plus someone needs to be deployed into the theater of operations to perform logistical support and maintenance to keep your hypothetical killbots in action. (Automated manufacturing is one thing, automated diagnosis and repair is quite another.) Someone also has to have acquired enough military expertise t…
Plenty of videogames have trained people for that. The lower end of the technical elite.