tech is pivoting to humanoid robots!!

[cshlan@dawdling.net]

@Frantasaur @peter
My kid had just finished Exit Strategy where it says I felt my body crumple but I didn't feel myself hit the floor when I saw this and had to share it with them. Poor Murderbot!

#murderbot

[odd@sunny.garden]

@peter the little hand is killing me.

[chogbro@masto.ai]

@peter buy stocks!

[librarymonster@glammr.us]

@peter the guys carrying the robot away could've been more gentle ngl

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@peter did it show a middle finger before crashing?

[landkieker@norden.social]

@peter

[lxskllr@mastodon.world]

@nullagent @peter

Humans are limited by biology. When you can literally do anything that doesn't violate physics, I can't think of anything a biped has an advantage on. Looks cute I guess.

[ricardoharvin@mstdn.social]

@peter

They had the shrouds and the lifters in place; they knew this was very likely to happen.

[karlauerbach@sfba.social]

@ShelbyvonTrapp @peter We spent several years working with the DARPA robotics trials. So we saw robots falling down rather frequently.

Here's a video of some falls later in the program (falls were rather more common in the earlier phases. The hardest thing in our test course was for the robots to get out of the ATV that they had to drive.)

(My role was to mess up the communications with the robots - so many falls came from me pushing a button that did something like added a lot of network latency or packet loss.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TaYhjpOfo

[edelruth@mastodon.online]

@peter

But WHY? Why did they throw a cover over it? We know it's there. We know it fell down. We don't forget things existed once we can't see them anymore.
It isn't alive. It's whole point is it isn't alive.

So, why did they rush up there and throw, what, modesty covers on it? Which made it really difficult to carry.

As you can tell, this video blew my mind. They rushed in like it was a code blue.

We're doomed, and its anthropomorphization that will do us in, not the robots.