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Lots of commments on military applications, but bipedal robots are inferior to wheel vehicles, planes, and aerial drones, in terms of speed and maneuverability. Everyone's so afraid of Terminators hunting them down, when in reality, mostly invisible , and mostly silent, Predator drones from a mile away that will kill you with precisely targeted missiles should be your real fear. Or commercial quad-copters carrying an…

IIRC the humanoid Terminators in the movie are infiltrator units. Skynet will definitely have more conventional aircrafts and wheeled vehicles to hunt us down.

The conventional aircraft were shown in several Terminator movies, and look like a large drone with two large forward fans and two small rear fans.

Similarly, Terminator 2 showed large tracked vehicles.

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What about 30 years? 50? 100? Is that too far out to worry about?

In my view the biggest issue with the whole "robots unite to violently overthrow humanity" trope isn't its technological infeasibility (though it _is_ technologically infeasible for the forseeable future), but rather the fact that it presupposes an AI that is essentially human; with all the same emotions, goals, and vices that a human would have. There's no reason to think a hypothetical future AGI would care in the…

The actual assumption is not human-ness but instrumental convergence [1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

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You can run a solve on animation to accommodate physical artifacts like vibrations and other weights. Disney have a paper on this for their robotics: https://youtu.be/Z1jgaEO9aRs Though of course Disney have very different constraints, however it does illustrate that you can map from mocap to robotics motions by running solves and reversing out the artifacts. Those can be encoded into timed poses and combine that wit…

It won’t work for standing robots because those need to adjust for dynamic variables or they will fall down with the first tiny gust of wind (or floor micro-shake) Disney animatronics don’t have this problem because they are attached to the ground.

My last paragraph mentions that aspect already.

You can run some amount of the solve before hand based on what you know, and combine that with the real-time physics adjustment that these robots already do to accommodate for any differences at "runtime".

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hyundai (Korea) bought the controlling stake for $1b+ a week or so ago. How long until this is incorporated into a kpop performance? What year in the '20s will see a popular group made up in part/whole of dancing robots?

What would be the point? Chuck-e-cheese did this many ages ago.

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I love how there were people in the upper floor just walking by without even looking. "Oh, the robots are dancing again." In between the advances in "holographic" displays (not quite as sci-fi as we would want, but they are progressing), commercial space flight, cybernetic prosthetics, CRISPR and this... we are living in the future. It's amazing. It makes me a little sad more people are not aware of the ridiculously…

what if the boston dynamic robots are taught how to assemble themselves.

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hyundai (Korea) bought the controlling stake for $1b+ a week or so ago. How long until this is incorporated into a kpop performance? What year in the '20s will see a popular group made up in part/whole of dancing robots?

What would be the point? Chuck-e-cheese did this many ages ago.

Let me tell you about Concept Unification:

https://youtu.be/GXCrVNEwGxM

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I love how there were people in the upper floor just walking by without even looking. "Oh, the robots are dancing again." In between the advances in "holographic" displays (not quite as sci-fi as we would want, but they are progressing), commercial space flight, cybernetic prosthetics, CRISPR and this... we are living in the future. It's amazing. It makes me a little sad more people are not aware of the ridiculously…

> It makes me a little sad more people are not aware of the ridiculously cool technical advancements going on lately.

It makes me a little sad more people are not aware of the ridiculously scary technical advancements going on lately.

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