That’s still pretty impressive, especially the first recovery.
That was my thought. Like actually very close to making it through the recovery
And then went full Ashley Simpson.
(I’m pretty sure I’ve seen you write a rather fascinating tirade about how Ashley was the victim in all this, and I’m frankly trying to trigger you so that I can read it again.)
So many people are talking and so focused on AI that everyone’s been missing the robotics.
My husband has been showing me videos every week of robots from Japan, China, etc. Robotics has advanced insanely fast last few years.
Can’t annihilate the human race without Cylons.
Yeah, much more impressive than these choreographed performances.
Which makes the poor thing dying at the end very unsettling.
You need to understand… regaining stability on a PERFECTLY FLAT AND PREDICTABLE surface is not new nor novel for robotics.
Oh gosh, you’re absolutely right. That was in no way impressive at all, and I should never have brought it up. Can you ever forgive me?
Your sarcasm only proves how absolutely pathetic you and everyone else’s understanding of robotics is.
Sounds like something a robot would say 🤔
Considering I’m shitting on the robots, that only further proves my point that ya’ll are brainless morons merely voting down that which you do not understand. Sad.
Holy fuck guys we found him. It’s the guy that’s been going around shitting on people’s robots
My dude, your username is literally “LurkingLuddite” and you’re doing exactly what a luddite that is lurking would do. You might as well be a bot* at that point lol
Your inability to grasp reality is both pathetic and hilarious
ya’ll are brainless morons merely voting down that which you understand.
Say again?
Given the complexity of the performance, and a clear miscalculation, which it was initially able to recover from, would say you’re not giving it enough credit.
No. It only recovered when it stumbled back into a flat area. That OBVIOUSLY demonstrates that it’s too stupid to deal with dynamic terrain.
Ok, you disrespect it now, but if you put a couple of M-249 saws on its arms, would you respect it then?
No
So that’s a “no” on forgiveness?
On two legs? After stumbling? That was impressive few years back on four legs (the robodogs).
To be fair, Spot (which I assume is the kind of robodog you were talking about) is already a decade old
Yeah that’s insanely impressive.
Sure it doesn’t exactly know where its feet are, but… like how many people do you know that could do 5 or 10 seconds of that?
Also the leg flailing was extremely rapid and thus comical.
8/10.
The guy missed the opportunity to moonwalk while dragging the robot out
The guy missed the opportunity to moonwalk while dragging the robot out
Witty comments like these belong to the few reasons I still log onto the Web from time to time.
The long pause where its just laying there with the lights still going and whatnot just sends me for some reason.
he ded
but did its shoe fall off?
Everybody’s waiting, holding their breaths, whispering to each other…
Meanwhile, backstage, CHAOS!
“What we do?”
“Get him up! Get him UP!”
“I’m trying, there’s no connection!”
“What does that mean?”
“He’s dead.”
“Dead, dead?”
“Dead, Dead, DEAD.”
“Now what!”
“Somebody has to get him off stage.”
“How?”
“How do you think? Drag him.”
“Who?”
“Him!”
“NO! Who drags him off stage?”
“Well, this is your circus, I guess that means it’s YOU.”
“But it will be humiliating.”
“Sure will. You want music?”
Ngl the first save was impressive.
Can’t wait to laugh at a tripping killbot before it rights itself and wastes me with a patent pending 12 hour painful death injectable
It’s pretty impressive anyway. I wonder what another year of development will do?
I also prefer dancing robot to RoboCop and the firemen’s robot dogs.
I dunno about Michael Jackson, but he’s perfected the drunk uncle at a wedding.
Would that be druncle, or drunkle?
I like the first one.
If it was me falling over the steps in a dance performance, I’d stay down after the second time too.
Sometimes you just have to let gravity win
Gravity indeed.
Comedian Fred Berry, the guy who played Rerun from “What’s Happening”, came with headliner Pauly Shore at a stand-up show in my hometown back in like 2000. Famous for his high voice, high energy, and red beret - he accidentally walked right off the frontend of the stage mid-set. He was portly, so it wasn’t graceful. He continues the rest of his set in the pit until he introduces Pauly on stage – to which Pauly books it top speed and jumps in after him.
MC: Would you 2 fools get outta there!
Pauly: No. We like down here!
Rerun: We’ve accepted our fate. It’s closer to hell down here.
Pauly: Trust me, I’d be easier if you just bring everyone into the pit.
You laugh now, but you’ll remember these days fondly when the robot simply fell down instead of getting up and moonwalking while spraying bullets
The robot was once again defeated by its arch nemesis STAIRS
Around 12.000 people are killed by stairs each year in the US alone. And so many more injured. Stairs are a menace!
Cars say those are amateur numbers
The ESCALATOR is like a nuclear bomb in the robot world.
I have not played BL4, but I recently replayed 1-3. 2 is by far the best IMO, but man does leveling break midway through the game if you’re doing side quests and/or DLC. You wind up super overpowered.
Robby are you ok, are you ok Robby!?
the comedic timing is simply impeccable
Why did they let it dance so close to the steps? Was it supposed to walk up?
Nah, the routine was not supposed to veer in that direction. Everyone lauding this as a win do not understand how simple these robots are.
This was supposed to be nothing but a vapid PR event that sold an image that is still not possible by consumer-grade robotics.
That’s a simplistic and reductive look at what’s happening here. The speed with which they’re improving is insane. How long before they can build themselves? The speed of improvement would assume only a few years. You’re mocking it for failing a dance done by one of the best dancers in human history. It’s like saying that AI can’t compete with usain Bolt, Tom Hanks, Nolan Ryan, Tom Brady, George Patton, Leonardo devinci, etc. yeah it can’t beat the best of the best yet, but it’s not that far off.
That dancing robot is better than most people, even taking the fail. Robots beat runners on a recent marathon.
It’s being mocked for its inability to deal with stairs.
Daleks have been able to do that since the late 1980s.
Pretty sure since the 60’s
Iirc, it’s Remembrance of the Daleks (1988) where we see one hover up some stairs for the first time.
How long before they can build themselves?
Centuries.
We have had robots in factories since the 70’s putting one tiny part each on a large assembly. Getting a humanoid robot to build itself is a gargantuan task. Tasking one of these to do any kind of intricate assembly right now would see it freak out and smash everything in the room.
Improving is insane for what you have seen.
Not for what is possible or what has been done already.
The Jackson Fives’ father was ruthless on the kids practicing from early childhood.
I’m pretty sure the step was part of the original routine.
Great, so not only do we have to fight robots for access to water, they can now emote over our broken bodies
How long until Elon teaches his to teabag?
He needs to actually build a robot first, instead of a puppet controlled by an intern.
One of my favorite parts of vr fps like contractors is physically teabagging people. They are already being trained.
That was one of the first things it learned.
How amazing is that recovery after the first stumble?
Somewhere between more amazing than falling over and less amazing than being able to climb stairs.
I imagine it wasn’t trained for these lighting conditions and a monotone grey floor. But funny nonetheless.
I think it’s because it’s a pre programmed routine and the only autonomous thing it does is self balance it’s not even looking at the environment. These Unitree robots are nothing more than advanced RC toys. If you look at other videos with these robots you often see someone with a remote controller in their hands behind their back. If you buy one and want it to move autonomously and take into account the environment with computer vision you have to program that into the robot yourself.
Funny, but somehow that’s the most fair take that I think I’ve heard on this video and these robots.
Oh no, STAAAAAAAAAAAIRS – Claptrap
