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Headlines do that sometimes
Robot evolution
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Compare these two videos of robots playing football. The first is from 2015, the second is from 2023
I'm looking forward to getting a poo-less dog one day. Where will they put the charge socket?
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On the nose so it can plug itself in.
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Robots are quickly becoming part of our everyday lives, but they’re often only programmed to perform specific tasks well. While harnessing recent advances in AI could lead to robots that could help in many more ways, progress in building general-purpose robots is slower in part because of the...
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In all the years of this thread, I have seen many robots do many things, and I often thought “when will they become commonplace?”
I think a world in which lots of ordinary people have a robotic companion (or whichever term for it you prefer) will be seen as the time when society takes another great leap forward (just like previously the arrival of telephones, and later mobile phones, and the internet)
Here is one such robot, available to you for under $4000 including shipping
shop.unitree.com
Just as there was once a time that people used to look up to watch a plane fly overhead, someday there will be a time when you can walk down the street with a robot like this and nobody will stare.
I think a world in which lots of ordinary people have a robotic companion (or whichever term for it you prefer) will be seen as the time when society takes another great leap forward (just like previously the arrival of telephones, and later mobile phones, and the internet)
Here is one such robot, available to you for under $4000 including shipping
Unitree Go1
Unitree Go1 is capable of running at 4.7m/s, and is featured with Intelligent Side-Follow System (ISS), Super Sensory System (SSS) and built-in powerful AI.
shop.unitree.com
Just as there was once a time that people used to look up to watch a plane fly overhead, someday there will be a time when you can walk down the street with a robot like this and nobody will stare.
I'm fed up with those prancing quadrupeds–they inhabit You Tube by the dozen.Here is one such robot, available to you for under $4000 including shipping
Unitree Go1
Unitree Go1 is capable of running at 4.7m/s, and is featured with Intelligent Side-Follow System (ISS), Super Sensory System (SSS) and built-in powerful AI.
That would look ugly. Programmed to reverse of course.
With feet like that you could only stumble around like that! Bit like a toddler really, sort of cute.
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The point here is that these ones will be prancing down your streets before much longer.
If you doubt that, just think back to when people didn’t have drones. It’s not that long ago. This is similar.
What will be their purpose apart from scaring the sh*t out of the real dogs? And what will be the cost of one when it gets mowed over by a vehicle?
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If nothing else, they will get the general public used to seeing robots in the street, and then the later types won’t seem quite as scary/bad.
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I am storing "prancing quadrupeds" in the insult bank in case I get into an argument with some dressage horses. It's a great phrase.
It can be modified to "prancing tripods" for Martians.
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Would Martian "rythm" work in Earth gravity?
Heavy ballet
Think of the options for terrorist activity?
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Yeah, but the same could be said of drones, and that didn’t happen much.
Well, give it chance!
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