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That first video of the bot standing from the floor and turning towards the camera one joint at a time does something strange to the uncanny valley horror movie part of my brain.
Yes, very strong T-1000 vibes – the way it keeps reversing "front" and "back" almost feels like a deliberate reference to that moment in Terminator 2.
If all Boston Dynamics did was make Youtube videos, they'd have a pretty good business.
Is that their business? They've been around for 30+ years and I don't think they've ever successfully commercialized a product. So far as I can tell, they just hop from DARPA grant to DARPA grant and make cool videos of the results. I don't have any particular problem with that, but its a little weird? I figured they were a more traditional industrial robotics company that just did the humanoid robots as a side line…
Wonder if that includes weapon systems?
https://en.hyundai-wia.com/business/defense_business.asp
> With its cutting-edge unmanned and automated weapons systems, Hyundai WIA upgraded the level of defense industry system.
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Uh, what evidence do you have of this "wide scale robotic deployment"? More humanoid robots have been announced lately but that is all I know of. Humanoid robots have many, many challenges to deployment. Especially, creating a machine that people can safely operate near is extremely challenging. The amount of intelligence person uses to not bump another person is very under rated.
It's a hypothetical deployment but it's reasonable to expect. These robots will be very valuable, and everyone will want one. It's not going to become a housemaid in a few years. But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly. Moravec's paradox is still in play, but advancement in AI chips will slowly overcome it.
What can humanoid robots making car parts do, that the already-existing and already widely deployed robots making car parts can't?
That first video of the bot standing from the floor and turning towards the camera one joint at a time does something strange to the uncanny valley horror movie part of my brain.
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You're excited... at the yet unexplored military applications... of humanity finding ever more efficient ways of killing each other? FML, that's dark.
War is already dark and more precision makes it less dark. Winning faster saves lives.
Also, bold of you to assume you're going to be winning. Does the excitement about this new tech hold up if you consider it from the perspective that it's going to be used against you and your troops?
[0] as opposed to actual defence against invasion - despite the euphemism commonly used by western governments for their military political departments. And what %age of military actions in the last 50 years that your country was involved in count as one, or the other?
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I'm not sure it has ever been about complexity or cost. Right now no regular user has the technical ability to fiddle with a phone's laminated screen glued to a touch matrix paired with a fingerprint sensor and a camera, so we're alreay past the complexity threshold. But we could still reuse a screen block from phone A on phone B, except that's been forbidden by technical measures specially added to prevent it. The s…
It's absolutely about complexity. Complexity always allows companies to explain why they should be the only hands that touch something, lest a laymen fumbles it.
Mobiles are similar, they are filled to the brim with various electronics, connected together into a huge mash. why would you even expect to fix that?
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Funny how the ubiquity of AI generated artwork plus the shitty quality of phone videos has made people to think that "high quality + depth of field = fake". However if you look closely the robot does have scuffs and scratches on it so I think it's real.
Reminds me to how high framerate made (makes?) people think "Soap Opera", even though it's technically higher quality.