you do realize that’s propaganda spread by a cult that convinces people they can purify their organs to the point of gaining levitation abilities right?
Propaganda of what ? The robots will collect human organs so they can finally solve the trolley problem. Needs many MANY repetition of the experiment. They just happened to understand only Mandarin because they were created in China.
Why do they look mocap and not robotic? Like if it’s a robot, the movements should be far more efficient and literally robotic looking. This just looks like “look, we can make them execute scripted macro movements with micro auto adjustments”. Which is an achievement in itself, but not exactly as advanced as this video suggests at face value. I could be wrong, but something about it feels off to me and this is just my guess as to why.
because that’s what this is.
Premade animations choreographed and scripted.
BUT
Do you have any idea what insane technology in soft and hardware is neccessary to make this happen?
this is beyond impressive, and China is way ahead of everyone else.
Electric cars, Robotics, Renewable energy, medical research, Drone technology.
The west needs to get rid of the incompetent conservatives that cling to a world that no longer exists or the west is the new third world.
Yeah, don’t compare them to the ideal in your head. Compare them to the best their competitors have put out there.
You know, like the assholes here in the US that would just have humans remote control them from the next room to get worse results. And yeah of course China can lie and fake shit too, but I think this would probably be just as impressive if they were all mimicking the movements of a mocap-suited athlete off stage.
These are copying human movements i think. But yeah, there is an attempt to make these robots look cool so humans wont resist when they patrol the streets.
You’re saying that like it’s not impressive even if that were true. Human motion capture can’t react fast enough to loss of balance with the speed of the moves they were doing (neither can a fully pre-programmed routine with no real time processing), especially for something smaller than the human operator for which you wouldn’t have the intuition of how to right it, especially with conventional motion capture that doesn’t give you feedback like moving your body does (unless they built a fully featured motion capture system that’s both super low latency and gives the operator complete and accurate mechanical feedback on all degrees of freedom, in which case you’d think they’d feature that more than the robots themselves because that’s way more impressive.) Even if they were all piloted by humans, they’re still autonomously processing all those motion inputs to be compatible with its body.
But yeah, there is an attempt to make these robots look cool so humans wont resist when they patrol the streets.
Don’t worry, we’ll never have this problem in the West because humans over here like being police bastards too much to let some robots take their fun away.
Don’t worry, we’ll never have this problem in the West because humans over here like being police bastards too much to let some robots take their fun away.
Most Americans would be happy if the cops just started wearing better tasting boots
Oh man can you imagine if they made a control interface fit a hamster or a lab mouse. The hilarity that would follow to have a line of these doing material arts and one just running in place and trying to stuff food in it’s speaker box.
The robots staying stable and not falling over is still very impressive.
Sentdex made some videos about programming Unitree robots and it looked like absolute hell and makes this video all the more impressive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc1nhT8beTU
If they have fixed programming, the bias would be consistent, but still there, because it would be based upon systems that are already inherently bias.
Any current ML system is beholden to the data/constraints it was built with, if inherent bias exists in the data it will exist in the resulting system.
That’s before you even start taking in to account the infrastructure that would be managing them being potentially corrupt or having their own interpretations of “public safety”.
“These bots from <generic third party> are bringing in more cases against the <“good” people>, but these ones from <tech company with the same bigoted ideology as us> can be tweaked to target the <“bad” people>, which of these two companies should we purchase our inventory from ?”
At 0:32 when the robots bend their knees they all do two little hops with one foot to keep balanced, but not all robots are doing the same hop. The middle robot does two large hops whereas the left rear robot does one small hop and then only lifts his “toes”.
It could be a combination of pre-programmed movements with a balancing program on top
Yeah or just multiple people controlling groups of them. Its impressive though, sure. I just hate the idea behind it - to get people to like these things.
Sigh… I mean… I tried. And while there is much to be said for it, there is a lot to be said against it too. It’s kind of a win some lose some deal. Depends on where you live. If I was in the USA I’d fuck right off to basically anywhere, and SE Asia wouldn’t be a bad bet. Thing is, they don’t just accept people willy nilly. Unless you want to endure a permanent border hopping enema, you need a work visa, student visa, or retirement visa, and those all come with their own hurdles.
We in the west don’t even remember what a society can achieve without the bloodsucking billionaire parasites and shareholders siphoning off wealth.
For us that would be “splurging”, for less insane societies it would be common sense.
Yeah I treated all of the stated limitations of MIT robotics projects for the next 25 years as universal & wasn’t aware of the progress in manufacturing + logistics until say 2019
What do you mean, as entertainment? Most people currently seem entertained by these.
But this is just getting started.
As helpful androids? Sure, can it one day clean my house and do my shopping? I’d buy one (though I suppose they would have some awful privacy problems).
As military robots? Can they one day operate a tank? Carry and fire weapons? I can think of a few people that want that.
I absolutely want to see robots automating hard manual labor. I also want to see affordable personal robots that can take care of all my chores so I can enjoy doing things I’m actually interested in.
I imagine a display such as this drives Elon mad with the dismal human-dancing-in-a-costume display he put on for his completing product. If true, I want this.
That’s extremely impressive. As soon as these can do this stuff on random surfaces and with spatial awareness then we are probably past the event horizon for some significant, scary and futuristic shit.
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Chat, are we cooked?
time to learn Chinese.
How do I say “please don’t harvest my organs I am a smoked and alcoholic since the age of 11 !” In Mandarin?
you do realize that’s propaganda spread by a cult that convinces people they can purify their organs to the point of gaining levitation abilities right?
Propaganda of what ? The robots will collect human organs so they can finally solve the trolley problem. Needs many MANY repetition of the experiment. They just happened to understand only Mandarin because they were created in China.
They don’t need your trashed organs, they will kick you so much that all of them explode
No they won’t
you don’t have to say that, the social-score app will show that to everyone who looks you up.
libs basically have all the intellectual capacity of a parrot, proudly regurgitating a handful of lines they memorized
not a real thing
Don’t worry, one look at you and they’ll know you’re not worth harvesting.
Wrong country
"In German, oder English
I know how to count down,
Und I’m learning Chinese,
Says Wernher Von Braun"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio
Why do they look mocap and not robotic? Like if it’s a robot, the movements should be far more efficient and literally robotic looking. This just looks like “look, we can make them execute scripted macro movements with micro auto adjustments”. Which is an achievement in itself, but not exactly as advanced as this video suggests at face value. I could be wrong, but something about it feels off to me and this is just my guess as to why.
because that’s what this is. Premade animations choreographed and scripted.
BUT
Do you have any idea what insane technology in soft and hardware is neccessary to make this happen?
this is beyond impressive, and China is way ahead of everyone else. Electric cars, Robotics, Renewable energy, medical research, Drone technology. The west needs to get rid of the incompetent conservatives that cling to a world that no longer exists or the west is the new third world.
Yeah, don’t compare them to the ideal in your head. Compare them to the best their competitors have put out there.
You know, like the assholes here in the US that would just have humans remote control them from the next room to get worse results. And yeah of course China can lie and fake shit too, but I think this would probably be just as impressive if they were all mimicking the movements of a mocap-suited athlete off stage.
These are copying human movements i think. But yeah, there is an attempt to make these robots look cool so humans wont resist when they patrol the streets.
It would look way to robotic if they manually inputed the choreography with mathematics.
You’re saying that like it’s not impressive even if that were true. Human motion capture can’t react fast enough to loss of balance with the speed of the moves they were doing (neither can a fully pre-programmed routine with no real time processing), especially for something smaller than the human operator for which you wouldn’t have the intuition of how to right it, especially with conventional motion capture that doesn’t give you feedback like moving your body does (unless they built a fully featured motion capture system that’s both super low latency and gives the operator complete and accurate mechanical feedback on all degrees of freedom, in which case you’d think they’d feature that more than the robots themselves because that’s way more impressive.) Even if they were all piloted by humans, they’re still autonomously processing all those motion inputs to be compatible with its body.
Don’t worry, we’ll never have this problem in the West because humans over here like being police bastards too much to let some robots take their fun away.
Most Americans would be happy if the cops just started wearing better tasting boots
Oh man can you imagine if they made a control interface fit a hamster or a lab mouse. The hilarity that would follow to have a line of these doing material arts and one just running in place and trying to stuff food in it’s speaker box.
Did the humanoid shape gave it away? Or was it the Kung Fu?
The robots staying stable and not falling over is still very impressive.
Sentdex made some videos about programming Unitree robots and it looked like absolute hell and makes this video all the more impressive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc1nhT8beTU
But will they be properly taught to harass and murder people for not being white enough?
I mean, sure, you can probably make an argument for less racism when we have robots. But still, its going to be pretty horrible for everyone.
Probably not one that stands up to scrutiny.
If they have fixed programming, the bias would be consistent, but still there, because it would be based upon systems that are already inherently bias.
Any current ML system is beholden to the data/constraints it was built with, if inherent bias exists in the data it will exist in the resulting system.
That’s before you even start taking in to account the infrastructure that would be managing them being potentially corrupt or having their own interpretations of “public safety”.
“These bots from <generic third party> are bringing in more cases against the <“good” people>, but these ones from <tech company with the same bigoted ideology as us> can be tweaked to target the <“bad” people>, which of these two companies should we purchase our inventory from ?”
At 0:32 when the robots bend their knees they all do two little hops with one foot to keep balanced, but not all robots are doing the same hop. The middle robot does two large hops whereas the left rear robot does one small hop and then only lifts his “toes”.
It could be a combination of pre-programmed movements with a balancing program on top
Yeah or just multiple people controlling groups of them. Its impressive though, sure. I just hate the idea behind it - to get people to like these things.
Let’s see how well they can run in the forest.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9igvUZcBXhM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve9USu7zpLU
Well at least they seem short so we should be able to just throw them or kick them over with ease
have you seen the little boxing matches they set up with these? they’re so silly
We really do live in the cyber punk dystopia predicted. It’s just way less neon lights.
They’ll release a gamer version of these robots with RGB don’t worry.
only if you live in upper north america; western europe; or australia. lol
That’s damn true. All of SE Asia is basically a neon (*actually LED) vortex
i wish i could move there
Sigh… I mean… I tried. And while there is much to be said for it, there is a lot to be said against it too. It’s kind of a win some lose some deal. Depends on where you live. If I was in the USA I’d fuck right off to basically anywhere, and SE Asia wouldn’t be a bad bet. Thing is, they don’t just accept people willy nilly. Unless you want to endure a permanent border hopping enema, you need a work visa, student visa, or retirement visa, and those all come with their own hurdles.
Good luck tho, I can def vibe with the sentiment.
Looks nice. Not excited to be fighting to the death on some random hill surrounded by a thousand of these.
Don’t worry, you’re much more likely to be instantly annihilated by a tiny suicide drone.
Can i have it arrive before my next rent payment?
They probably won’t splurge for the emp proof coating.
We in the west don’t even remember what a society can achieve without the bloodsucking billionaire parasites and shareholders siphoning off wealth. For us that would be “splurging”, for less insane societies it would be common sense.
Truly impressive. Either I have been alive for a long time or the rate of progress is accelerating. I thought we were decades away from this.
Yeah I treated all of the stated limitations of MIT robotics projects for the next 25 years as universal & wasn’t aware of the progress in manufacturing + logistics until say 2019
Does anyone actually want this? Like it’s kind of interesting but is it actually something anyone wants?
What do you mean, as entertainment? Most people currently seem entertained by these.
But this is just getting started.
As helpful androids? Sure, can it one day clean my house and do my shopping? I’d buy one (though I suppose they would have some awful privacy problems).
As military robots? Can they one day operate a tank? Carry and fire weapons? I can think of a few people that want that.
Well there you go… I guess I am in the minority on this. I don’t want these things anywhere near me or my family.
But yes I can imagine cops loving the idea of these things crushing protestors throats in the street.
Yes I can see some really altruistic uses for these but they’re outweighed by the malicious ones.
Like RING cameras and the other brands, would be super cool to help locate lost children and elderly but bad people are going to use them for fascism.
I absolutely want to see robots automating hard manual labor. I also want to see affordable personal robots that can take care of all my chores so I can enjoy doing things I’m actually interested in.
I imagine a display such as this drives Elon mad with the dismal human-dancing-in-a-costume display he put on for his completing product. If true, I want this.
It’s a demonstration of capability, not utility.
Whoa what the hell, that’s insane!
Are we sure this isn’t AI made video? This looks so unreal to me. Last time I saw human robots, they didn’t even go up in the staircase.
it would be very very good AI made, and i have seen those robots do these things in tech demos before, so they definitely exist.
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Once receiving the signal Chinese household robots sold to the west gonna do project atomic heart, by kicking you in the nuts.
What if you don’t have nuts! Haha gotem! Check mate atheists!
That’s extremely impressive. As soon as these can do this stuff on random surfaces and with spatial awareness then we are probably past the event horizon for some significant, scary and futuristic shit.
Better at humans at fighting AND better at break dancing too!