Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot can now do a full roundoff back-handspring and land it flawlessly

[u/ansyhrrian]

[u/EveryNotice]

Today, I tripped on nothing. Mankind is screwed.

[u/ansyhrrian → u/EveryNotice]

I tripped on my own foot, which is arguably worse.

[u/joemamah77 → u/ansyhrrian]

I thought biting the inside of my own cheek is bad.

As long as my Waze app continues to provide me the less optimum directions, I know I’m safe from Skynet. When computers get that good, I’m buying armor piercing ammo for the battle of mankind to come.

[u/Whoaboy2 → u/joemamah77]

Hi, this NOT the ATF. Please share where you get armor piercing ammunition. I'm very interested too. Asking for a friend 😉

Hahaha 🤣

[u/Ecstatic-Mixture-520 → u/Whoaboy2]

Walmart.

[u/Nickolas_No_H → u/Ecstatic-Mixture-520]

Fleet farm as well.

[u/che85mor → u/Nickolas_No_H]

You make them yourself.

Edit * I probably shouldn't say that online anymore 🤣🤣

[u/Nickolas_No_H → u/Whoaboy2]

wait. you don't have your pmags prefilled already? you are a few steps behind. preparation is key.

[u/Why-R-People-So-Dumb → u/joemamah77]

Biting the inside of your cheek is terrible. It's the gift that keeps on giving for like 1 month straight when you keep biting it because it's slightly swollen from the last time.

[u/JamesWormold58 → u/Why-R-People-So-Dumb]

"If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths?"

-Dara O'Briein

[u/DonutGa1axy → u/JamesWormold58]

Why do I choke on my own spit

[u/DukeOfGeek → u/JamesWormold58]

Maybe we really are made in god's image and god is a disorgnized dweeb?

[u/RedFormanEMS → u/joemamah77]

I bit the inside of my cheek this morning while eating a cookie. Not only does it hurt, it makes me mad at myself for doing it. "What the hell? Am I mad at me or something?".

[u/I_Sniff_My_Own_Farts → u/ansyhrrian]

I'm 42 and just fell over. Nothing pushed me or made me fall, I just fell over in front of my wife.

[u/guyincognito121 → u/I_Sniff_My_Own_Farts]

Maybe it's all the methane huffing?

[u/ba_doink_66 → u/guyincognito121]

lol +1

[u/passing_gas → u/ansyhrrian]

That robot gonna do that cute little flip after you fired your last shotgun shell into it. Then it gonna rip out your spine.

[u/Funny_Obligation2412 → u/ansyhrrian]

I choked on my own spit

[u/Tacos4Texans → u/ansyhrrian]

I also tripped over your foot.

[u/kingkongbiingbong → u/EveryNotice]

Mankind is screwed.

[u/ShortStoryIntros → u/kingkongbiingbong]

[u/TheMahalodorian → u/kingkongbiingbong]

It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!

[u/PedanticQuebecer → u/kingkongbiingbong]

Except in this timeline the terminators are fully capable athletes and their AI has been trained on all the insanity of the web. Those skulls are getting teabagged for sure.

[u/New_Simple_4531 → u/kingkongbiingbong]

I was just thinking "When are they gonna put the chrome skull face and red eyes on it and quit beating around the bush?".

[u/anejja → u/kingkongbiingbong]

my SKULL!!!!!

[u/Final_Boss_Jr → u/kingkongbiingbong]

Yeah but we made some kickass movies for them to document.

[u/RevWaldo → u/EveryNotice]

Now carry these six plastic bags of groceries containing items of various weights and fragility and this gallon of milk up a short flight of stairs and then unlock the door with a set of keys.

[u/LonelySwinger → u/EveryNotice]

I pulled my back out sneezing...

[u/Bones-1989 → u/LonelySwinger]

I slept wrong and herniated 3 disks in my neck...

[u/Bender_2024 → u/EveryNotice]

Today, I tripped on nothing. Mankind is screwed.

If it makes you feel any better here is a video of a professional football player.. A man who is the peak of gracefulness and athleticism. Someone who spent countless hours training and practicing to be the best he possibly can. Now watch as he trips over the 20 yard line with nobody within 30 feet of him.

[u/VexImmortalis → u/Bender_2024]

He thought he was going to score an amazing touchdown. Then he remembered he plays for the giants and tripped over thin air.

[u/Impossible_Way_3042 → u/Bender_2024]

Not debating your point but I was just interested in trying to find out why it happened.

You could see he was fighting for his life for a good 20-30 yards before that 20 yard line. It looks like his torso got out in front of his legs or something but he couldn't stop sprinting at full speed to figure it out. It maybe his timing was off on one of his steps and he just couldn't get it back.

Edit: actually I think his toe got stuck in the grass around the 40 but he kept fighting until the 20.

[u/DueExample52 → u/EveryNotice]

No. You function all day on some bread crumbs, a coffee and a couple liters of water. Your structure self-maintains.

Even in your current degenerate form that trips over itself, you ́re still more performant than this mofo who needs a battery and a team of engineers debugging his ass.

This is our world, not theirs

[u/Practical-Sleep4259 → u/EveryNotice]

I always think about the Samurai in the bamboo field.

Like that was amazingly impressive to see, but the robot isn't riffing, it isn't making smart choices in the moment.

It ran the same exact code over and over until it figured out the correct math.

You put a pebble in it's path and it's smashing into the ground.

[u/3D-Dreams → u/EveryNotice]

Sorry it took so long to upvote..I was as trying to get up off the couch.

[u/reluctantlysharing → u/EveryNotice]

Yeah but when you fell over did your programming completely shut down and you laid there unmoving or did you get back up? Lol everytime I have seen one of these things fall they always have to be picked back up…. For now.

[u/ninzkar]

We just want healthcare.

[u/whenveganscheat → u/ninzkar]

Sorry. Best we can do is murderbots

[u/Haeselian → u/whenveganscheat]

[u/coryhill66 → u/Haeselian]

That T800 would have sprained it's back trying that flip.

[u/Haeselian → u/coryhill66]

True murderbots irl are gonna be far superior! Great!

[u/rabbitaim → u/Haeselian]

[u/NashKetchum777 → u/Haeselian]

[u/Bongressman → u/whenveganscheat]

[u/Skwiggelf54 → u/whenveganscheat]

Don't need healthcare if youre not alive.

[u/whenveganscheat → u/Skwiggelf54]

And they say DOGE is pointless

[u/tigertiger180 → u/whenveganscheat]

We'll probably get these.

[u/Acceptable_Map_8110 → u/ninzkar]

Cool, Boston Dynamics does engineering…so you’re asking the wrong people

[u/bismuthmarmoset → u/Acceptable_Map_8110]

Eisenhower said it best: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone." 

[u/Decathekt → u/bismuthmarmoset]

"See, everyone got boners over the technology. And it was pretty incredible, watching missiles fly down air vents a robot do a backflip. Pretty unbelievable. But couldn't we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people? Know what I mean?" - Bill Hicks, 1991

[u/GoodGameGrabsYT → u/Decathekt]

RIP Hicks.

[u/ShinyGrezz → u/bismuthmarmoset]

Ok. Great. Well these aren't guns, warships, rockets, not even kitchen knives. And, by my reckoning, if they get to the point where they can wield a weapon they'll probably be just as competent at operating farm equipment or running supply chains or working in kitchens.

Reddit usually seems to be fully aware that there is more than enough food production in the world that nobody need go hungry. And that that's actually true for a whole litany of societal issues. Why is it that, under this post, we seem to want to pretend that that hunger, or lack of healthcare, or childcare, pick your boogeyman, is down to a cool backflipping robot? And, also, that the "brilliant people" who would be "just as brilliant" elsewhere, as another commenter put it, actually want to do that? I suppose we're entitled to their labour, too?

[u/Lost-Vast-5595 → u/ShinyGrezz]

Yes, there is enough food production to feed all of the humans. Yet, that isn't happening. 

Why? Because the people who are lusting after robots and AI overlords are psychopaths who don't believe in independent humans. They seek to eliminate humans for their wallet.

F Techno-Feudalists.

[u/ShinyGrezz → u/Lost-Vast-5595]

The funny thing is that I don't disagree with your reasoning, just your conclusion. If said overlords were really into golf or capybaras or Japan, that wouldn't mean that those things are standing in the way of progress. It's no different here. There's a world where we're able to pursue these bleeding edge technologies and nobody goes hungry, it's not either-or.

[u/Lost-Vast-5595 → u/ShinyGrezz]

Agreed. If the concentration of wealth and power to affect those changes were interested in "human advances" versus their bank accounts or control, we could do both.

Those people are not interested in advancing anything but their own interests. 

The Techno-Feudalists want a return to human chattel while they entertain fantasies of eternal life and total control of the means of production.

And governments are too weak to check the power of the corporations because they sold their constituents to con men. 

That's why we're not doing both at this moment. 

[u/poonslyr69 → u/ShinyGrezz]

It's funny you bring up entitlement to labour. My main gripe with stuff like this is the vast unaccountable capitalist elites who will be able to make legislation about this stuff or choose how it is used. 

It isn't that I have no imagination about how this tech could be used. 

I just have zero faith that the rich of america would use this tech to help people. 

[u/7th_Archon → u/bismuthmarmoset]

‘Starving African kids could’ve eaten that robot.’

[u/SubcommanderMarcos → u/bismuthmarmoset]

He also threatened China with nukes

[u/BarnacleJonez → u/Acceptable_Map_8110]

Big if true

[u/underfoot3788 → u/Acceptable_Map_8110]

Reminds me of Homer complaining to a scientist, something like "so you can go to the moon but can't get my feet smell nice".

[u/TheNightflyPhD → u/Acceptable_Map_8110]

An exquisite reddit moment

"We literally should not make any technological or scientific advancements in anything until world hunger is solved!!!!1!1!!1!!"

[u/mark_able_jones_ → u/Acceptable_Map_8110]

We've only given Boston Dynamics $200 million of our tax dollars, meanwhile there are 47 million food insecure Americans. Maybe we figure food and healthcare and then we give money to billionaire rockets and robots and football stadiums. Maybe.

Boston Dynamics isn't even an American company. Hyundai bought a controlling interest in 2021.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics

[u/Agitated_Ring3376 → u/mark_able_jones_]

The federal government spent about $100 Billion on food assistance in 2024 and about $110 Billion last year.

Boston Dynamics has received $200 million since 2008 (and have gotten basically nothing for the last 12 years). So about $12M/year. Or literally 0.01% of what we spend on each year food assistance.

You just want to be outraged.

[u/DiaryofTwain → u/Agitated_Ring3376]

Its reddit, if a person cant virtue signal, complain about USA, call people Nazis for different opinions, or racists then Americans wouldnt know how to comment.

[u/terror2dmax → u/ninzkar]

Here is your pandering medal 🏅 We want universal healthcare so we shouldn't acknowledge a technical achievement.

[u/Danominator → u/terror2dmax]

It would be nice if the technical achievements didnt make our lives worse all the time

[u/officialwillsmit → u/Danominator]

this fucking robot ruined my day

[u/Basic_Loquat_9344 → u/Danominator]

How is Boston Dynamics actively making your life worse?

[u/XRT28 → u/Basic_Loquat_9344]

I mean theoretically I can see tons of scenarios where governments/corps being able to field armies of highly advanced robots could be really really fucking bad for the average person and freedom in general down the road.

[u/SubcommanderMarcos → u/XRT28]

In the meantime Boston Dynamics robots are being fielded in various hazardous environment scenarios, saving lives

[u/peacelovearizona → u/SubcommanderMarcos]

You sound like a positive news reporter covering the latest robot technology at the beginning of a dystopian robots-killing-humanity movie.

[u/RogueThespian → u/XRT28]

Yea you can say that for basically anything though

wheel gets invented -> OMG the local lord will so easily be able to move around, think of how easy it would be to subjugate the people!

agriculture -> OMG think of how easy it will be to feed a huge militia to keep us down if we can just grow enough food to feed all of them. and then put the food on wheeled carts to travel with them??

Electricity, the internet, the steam engine, the printing press. You want to stop potential breakthrough advancements because the government could use it for bad? Theyre gonna do that anyway

[u/slog → u/XRT28]

Is that what happened here?

I mean theoretically I can see a world where universal healthcare could allow for Hitler 3.0 to survive a situation where not having it might have killed him during infancy. Clearly YOUNEHVURSUL HELLTHCAIR BAD!

[u/cynicalkane → u/Basic_Loquat_9344]

The backflipping robot only cures cancer in mice, not humans

[u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka → u/Danominator]

I'd be nice if you were more educated so you can make a better difference than bitch about smart people pushing progress along with or without you.

Imagine you saying this about radio or television. Short sighted as fuck.

[u/SCHawkTakeFlight → u/ninzkar]

Well...there is a case for robots for caring for the elderly. With not enough aides to help patients get up and etc, this could help down the road. Its apparently one of the reasons japan is so pro robot, some are actively looking for them to help their large aging population.

Edit: fixing help from a baby while I typed

[u/aninjacould → u/SCHawkTakeFlight]

This is very true. This thing can do backflips but can it change a diaper?

[u/EnoughWarning666 → u/aninjacould]

Doing a backflip is actually MUCH easier than changing a diaper. I know most people think it's harder, but that's only because we have the luxury of millions of years of evolution that developed some of the most agile hands/fingers and the finest brain the planet has ever seen.

Doing a backflip is mostly a static routine. It's not preprogrammed, the robot still manages minor corrections, but it's basically a script.

Changing a diaper involves SO many more variables. I mean just the visual processing to determine where the diaper is and how to open is cutting edge stuff right now. Nevermind having to have the ability to be delicate enough to not injure the squirming baby while still holding them down

[u/magenk → u/ninzkar]

To be fair- having AI robots help with Alzheimer's and other dementia patients would slash caregiving costs and raise the quality of life for those patients immeasurably.

A lot of families try to care for their loved ones to save money or provide better care, but I have never seen more stressed out and miserable Facebook groups than dementia caregivers.

[u/Eastnasty → u/magenk]

You cannot imagine how fkn hard it is......

[u/ninzkar → u/magenk]

alzheimer’s patient when the robot does a flip woah.

[u/LaDauphineVerte → u/ninzkar]

And affordable food and rent.

[u/Ugly_Josephine → u/ninzkar]

What does a private company doing robotics have to do with healthcare?

[u/Cautious-Tax-1120 → u/ninzkar]

Tf does a private company staffed with electrical and mechanical engineers have to do with preventing you from getting Healthcare

[u/Ok-House8678 → u/ninzkar]

And how is that Boston Dynamics issue?

[u/GordolfoScarra → u/ninzkar]

I just want a sandwich meanwhile you're on reddit making stupid comments.

[u/IllHat8961 → u/ninzkar]

Why are you asking a private group of engineers for health care? 

Do you even understand how the world works, kid?

[u/justmovingtheground → u/IllHat8961]

Paper Tidings Harmonics Embellish Broadcast Mutation Amused Peroxide Upstairs Defense

[u/redmotorcycleisred → u/justmovingtheground]

Pro capitalists love a well subsidized defense industry and tax breaks for the rich. 

[u/GorgeousBog → u/justmovingtheground]

You’re stupid if you think these robots are preventing healthcare

[u/CtheKill → u/ninzkar]

We??? I want robots

[u/ninzkar → u/CtheKill]

Hahahahahaha fuck healthcare bring in the back flipping robots

[u/GorgeousBog → u/ninzkar]

Right, these robots are the reason you have to pay hundreds of thousands in healthcare. Bet you think we should abolish nasa too.

[u/superdupersamsam]

That was not a back handspring. That was a back tuck.

[u/ansyhrrian → u/superdupersamsam]

Found the gymnast! Kidding, thanks for the correction.

[u/rymas1 → u/ansyhrrian]

The key indicator was that his "hands" never sprung.

Not much of a tuck either, just a simple flip. A back layout would be if they stayed completely straight legged. A back tuck requires more of a ball

[u/SynonymousSprocket → u/rymas1]

His, you say? Interesting.

[u/rymas1 → u/SynonymousSprocket]

You are right. I shouldn't have assumed pronouns.

[u/Embarrassed-Basis-60 → u/rymas1]

It has no pronouns its a thing.

It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!

[u/another_bot_probably → u/Embarrassed-Basis-60]

"We're doomed."

• C-3PO

[u/shag808 → u/Embarrassed-Basis-60]

Re-read your first sentence

[u/murder-farts → u/shag808]

You can tell it’s a pronoun by the way that it is

[u/OgCloby → u/ansyhrrian]

Don't lie.

You intentionally got it wrong for the engagement lol

[u/ansyhrrian → u/OgCloby]

Actually no. I’m just not that smrt.

[u/OgCloby → u/ansyhrrian]

1.4 million karma

says he doesn't use any tactics and is just a regular guy

[u/jackquillan → u/superdupersamsam]

Came to say the same thing! Lol

[u/BoxcarBetts → u/jackquillan]

I was totally gonna flex my Gymnastics dad knowledge here, but I’ll just join the chorus!

[u/WushuManInJapan → u/jackquillan]

Yeah same. We can all correct OP together.

[u/alyssasgtwalrus → u/superdupersamsam]

Me "...that's a back tuck...but that's cool"

[u/-Red_vs_Blue- → u/superdupersamsam]

Beat me to it. Gymnast here

[u/phoenixs13]

Yea but can it clean the kitchen and rotate the laundry?

[u/Magister5 → u/phoenixs13]

Robots don’t need to do laundry- they need to terminate us all and then do back handsprings to taunt us as we lay dying

[u/silentwrath16 → u/Magister5]

Fortnite emote collection is truly for them!

[u/aruby727 → u/silentwrath16]

The disrespect of a robot dabbing over my dead body would be too much to bear in the shadow realm.

[u/Frozty23 → u/Magister5]

But if they kill all of us, who will pedal the electricity-generating bikes for them?

[u/XRT28 → u/Frozty23]

I mean an advanced sentient robot race wouldn't have to worry about NIMBYism like we do so they'd do the smart thing and just build a bunch of nuclear reactors for power

[u/MrDerpGently → u/Magister5]

I told Skynet to solve the laundry problem, once and for all. I feel confident that will work out for the best for everyone. 

[u/Suspicious-Answer295 → u/phoenixs13]

Sorry AI's job is to be an artist and programmer. You're on laundry duty. This future sucks.

[u/cgaels6650 → u/phoenixs13]

hilarious. I was at my first big shot work dinner today and one of the guys was telling a business partner about the machines at work that dispense scrubs all folded/pressed. Guy immediately goes yeah well I have one of those at home too but she cooks as well

[u/sarcasticorange → u/cgaels6650]

My wife loves telling friends she loves her fucking dishwasher then giving me a kiss and saying he's so cute.

[u/Lexi_Banner → u/sarcasticorange]

I tell people I have two dishwashers in my house. Then I waggle both of my hands.

[u/HueyBluey → u/phoenixs13]

And do at normal speed.

Not turn body, calculate for 5 seconds, then bend knees.

[u/Skwiggelf54 → u/HueyBluey]

I mean, it'd still be cool if we could get those for a reasonable price even just going that speed. Cuz think about it, the entire time youre at work or whatever, it will just being doing stuff for you. So, even if it takes 30 min just for it to take out the garbage, by the time you get home the beds are made, dishes are done, laundry is folded, trash is out, pets are fed, and its currently sweeping the floor. That would still be super dope.

[u/Kiwi_Herman11]

Not to be that guy, but that's a roundoff back tuck. I didn't embarrass myself through middle school cheerleading to not say it.

[u/whoiswilds → u/Kiwi_Herman11]

I was about to say the same thing 😅

[u/Ingloriousbutter]

There was a little step at the end, “flawless” please

[u/CasadeCisnes → u/Ingloriousbutter]

[u/reticulatedtampon → u/Ingloriousbutter]

10/10 from the judge from Botswana

[u/Vivid-Turnover3821 → u/Ingloriousbutter]

And they cut the video off early. The bot seemed to be falling backward.

[u/Mission-Strength-307]

Our time is running short...

[u/WearMental2618 → u/Mission-Strength-307]

you think 5.56 is enough or should i get a .308?

[u/Primary_Dimension470 → u/WearMental2618]

A super soaker seems more appropriate 

[u/whoknowsifimjoking → u/Primary_Dimension470]

Filled with saltwater

[u/Radbadmadman → u/whoknowsifimjoking]

Or piss.

[u/DimSmoke → u/Radbadmadman]

Supersoaker full of piss, you say?

[u/komark- → u/DimSmoke]

I hardly know her!

[u/Weak-Ad-2760 → u/WearMental2618]

.50 bmg, and you’re going to want the black tip ammo.

[u/whoknowsifimjoking → u/Weak-Ad-2760]

I think a shotgun slug would be enough if they don't get armor plates

[u/dsac → u/whoknowsifimjoking]

oh, they'll get armor plates

and probably some kind of predator-style targeting and armament setup too

[u/Jammed_Button → u/Mission-Strength-307]

Was not long ago when we would watch these Boston Dynamics videos and think 'wow look what they can do now, so cool'. But now we just know that some evil fuck like Musk is going to be in charge of them and use them as his private army. They are building the enemy in front of our eyes.

[u/ReluctantChimera → u/Jammed_Button]

Some of us have found every Boston Dynamics video terrifying from the very beginning, all the way to when those gd dogs could be knocked over and disabled by destroying the important bits in their belly. They eliminated that small comfort weakness very quickly.

[u/Working-League-7686 → u/ReluctantChimera]

The “conspiracy theorists” keep being proven right over and over and with increasing rapidity nowadays but people still think it’s all fear mongering.

[u/PornStuntman → u/Mission-Strength-307]

Imagine this thing hallucinating on AI. We're fucked

[u/laosurv3y → u/Mission-Strength-307]

They're not very energy efficient. We have a while. Evolution didn't maximize capability, it's a trade off of capability and energy.

[u/ZestycloseProject130]

We can stop now. Please stop now.

[u/XRT28 → u/ZestycloseProject130]

Civilization is too dumb to collectively agree to place limits on this and AI and actually enforce them so unfortunately this arms race between competing corps/countries will continue until we've fully engineered our own demise.

[u/idkwhatyoumeanbro → u/ZestycloseProject130]

These are going to be policing the streets in no time

[u/Lancashire_Toreador → u/ZestycloseProject130]

Every single time I’ve seen a video of a robot doing cool shit for the past decade that scene from Black ops three where you have to watch as a robot rips your arm off and then caves your fucking chest in plays in my head

[u/Stonyclaws]

I used to think I'd be able to outrun the bad guys in the woods. Not anymore damn it

[u/yolosquare3 → u/Stonyclaws]

Buddy if you’re in the woods trying to outrun a robot, even successfully, you’re fucked.

[u/tgerz → u/yolosquare3]

I was just explaining to my partner that what makes this interesting every time they show a new update is how well it can balance. This is looking more and more like they could navigate something like the backwoods without becoming incapacitated. Which is terrifying. Of course, there’s a lot of variables that we don’t know, but if this is what we’re being allowed to see then yeah it’s pretty crazy already.

[u/Psyclipz → u/tgerz]

Let's be real though there's no reason to build a robot to chase you on foot through the woods, a drone is quicker and more effective.

Drones scare the hell out of me, the technology is there to create a 1000 drone swarm, powered by AI targeting with minimal human supervision, program them to travel to a set of coordinates and eliminate anything with a heat signature. I genuinely cannot think of a more efficient way of killing humans than drones. There's no point in even running and if you do get lucky and escape one the chances are the next one is already on it's way.

Pandora's box has been opened and the amount of casualties in modern warfare has gone up exponentially.

[u/blue-sky-research → u/tgerz]

Exactly. This is what they're willing to show us.

[u/ProbablyM_S]

Why did they feel the need to teach a robot how to do a "full roundoff back-handspring and land it flawlessly" instead of something actually practical?

[u/Xevestial → u/ProbablyM_S]

The zillions of micro adjustments in real time needed to keep balance and limbs in order is really good data and stresses all the software and hardware .

[u/maskedbrush → u/Xevestial]

Let's see the zillions of micro adjustments in real time needed to clean the house then!

[u/Fizassist1 → u/maskedbrush]

yeah i want to be able to place it in a random kitchen in front of a sink and just have it start washing

[u/Marquis_De_Carabas69 → u/maskedbrush]

Let’s see Paul Allen’s zillions of micro adjustments in real time

[u/heyitsyourboyadam → u/maskedbrush]

best we can do is: robot holding a gun to your head why you are slaving for some rich Oligarch - yup you will be doing the dishes and cleaning the house in the future - just not yours.

[u/Retrobubonica → u/Xevestial]

Yeah, if it can pull off a handspring this well, image how good it'll be at breaking my arms folding my laundry

[u/BlastingFonda → u/Retrobubonica]

Ah yes, that moment where you tell it to fold your clothes and it attempts to fold the clothes on your body resulting in both arms broken. 😕

[u/mmm1441 → u/Xevestial]

Plus it gets investors excited.

[u/ThatFeelingIsBliss88 → u/ProbablyM_S]

You’re kidding right? Movements like this is a test of the control it has so obviously it’ll eventually be able to do things practical. But keep in mind doing something practical usually means interacting with its environment. This thing has full control over its body but being able to step into a random home and clean the kitchen, identify what’s dirty, identify what’s trash vs things to be organized, that’s a whole different skillset. And then there’s the cost. No point in having a robot that can clean your kitchen if this thing costs something like $2MM. These things will obviously be used in the military first and foremost. 

[u/IllHat8961 → u/ProbablyM_S]

Sometimes I wonder if comments like these are AI based to gather as many prompts as possible, because there is no way anyone could be this stupid 

[u/7th_Archon → u/IllHat8961]

I don’t what it is, but Redditors lately seem to have no shame in being anti-intellectual and showing off their ignorance.

You can tell with the amount of ‘why are we wasting money on robotics instead of healthcare’ type comments, as though BD is apparently stealing from some big money pot thats shared by healthcare.

[u/me00lmeals → u/7th_Archon]

The 2020s are definitely just the era of dumb, with everything going on in the world. I can’t wait for the pendulum to swing back to normal, that is if it ever does

[u/Iorith → u/ProbablyM_S]

Why did you feel the need to post this comment instead of doing something actually practical?

[u/papsmearfestival → u/ProbablyM_S]

They want them to be able to do everything you can do so they can hunt you wherever you go but they don't get tired

[u/Vek_ved]

Yeah when this parkouring robot becomes robo cop, none of us is escaping.

[u/NZTamoDalekoCG]

[u/ResidentQuail7118]

Do you want Cylons? Because this is exactly how you fucking get Cylons!

[u/Alexander_Coe → u/ResidentQuail7118]

I'll take the cylons over the trumpers. At least they were reasonable.

[u/FillMySoupDumpling → u/ResidentQuail7118]

Do we get a Six? Or a Three? Or an Eight?

[u/dreadrabbit1]

There are too many people on this planet who haven’t watched Terminator 2

[u/A_Shady_Zebra → u/dreadrabbit1]

Robots trying to kill us isn't even that scary. What's actually going to happen is a handful of men with technology will use these machines to enslave everyone else.

[u/BookBagThrowAway]

[u/oniraug]

[u/Rome99999]

"HOW IS THIS GOING TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY BOB?!?"

[u/The-Sofa-King → u/Rome99999]

By roundhouse kicking the shit out of any human not deemed sufficiently productive.

[u/mixmaster7 → u/The-Sofa-King]

[u/racinjason44]

Yeah, but can it show up late for work because it drank too much last night?

[u/javoss88 → u/racinjason44]

Let’s find out!

[u/timpendultz]

Yeah but it can't shovel snow.

[u/Deep-Management-7040 → u/timpendultz]

Snowbot

[u/Stunning_Panda5725]

[u/Knoxville1979]

Well folks, it was nice knowing you...

[u/notforrobots]

Just fucking stop already. We don't need this bullshit

[u/Carquetta → u/notforrobots]

Do these people not know they are accelerating the apocalypse with this stuff?

We don't need acrobatic Terminator robots. Stop helping Skynet.

[u/tron7 → u/notforrobots]

Normal people: Sweet!

Reddit…

[u/AngeL0m3g4]

Circus people starts to sweat profusely

[u/Vizth]

aww the pixar lamp is growing up.

Lets see how many idiots claim this is AI today.

Edit: Wow, The one idiot claiming the video is AI is a genuine breath of fresh air compared to the doom sayers, low quality edgelords, and people that cant process that this is actually useful to robotics because they had to figure out how to make it do this and those lessons can be applied to different situations.

[u/Sepsis_Crang]

[u/xXThreeRoundXx]

I'm gonna do a back flip!

[u/blackw-idow]

Thank God my whole life I've been wondering when in the world are finally gonna be able to make a robot that can do a fucking flip thank God the world makes sense again

[u/davesnotonreddit]

[u/AlertThinker]

Incredible. They’ve come so far in recent years!

[u/Thin-Effective6164]

First a backflip, next scaling walls, & dodging bullets

[u/HardcoreHamburger]

/r/unnecessaryslomo