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Leaked video shows new 'nightmare-inducing' wheeled robot from Boston Dynamics
Posted on 2/6/17 at 10:08 pm
Posted on 2/6/17 at 10:08 pm
LINK(Scroll down to watch an incredible video about BD robots.)
Boston Dynamics has made another great stride towards effective and autonomous robots. "Handle" is their latest sensation. It's called Handle because it's meant to do everyday labor.
Fast and versatile, it will surely fulfill many an employer's request for a worker that is tireless, super strong and efficient. Handle is a direct result of Google's deep pockets investment in the company.
Google bought seven robotics-related companies, including BD. They seem to be in a rush get to the top of the robot hill.
They have lots of stiff competition. Robot land cars, flying cars and drones are the sexy, high profile projects but many companies such as Amazon are establishing robotic niches that don't get as much attention. Google seems to have the most widespread interests since they are involved in almost every field of robotics.
Boston Dynamics has made another great stride towards effective and autonomous robots. "Handle" is their latest sensation. It's called Handle because it's meant to do everyday labor.
Fast and versatile, it will surely fulfill many an employer's request for a worker that is tireless, super strong and efficient. Handle is a direct result of Google's deep pockets investment in the company.
Google bought seven robotics-related companies, including BD. They seem to be in a rush get to the top of the robot hill.
They have lots of stiff competition. Robot land cars, flying cars and drones are the sexy, high profile projects but many companies such as Amazon are establishing robotic niches that don't get as much attention. Google seems to have the most widespread interests since they are involved in almost every field of robotics.
This post was edited on 2/6/17 at 10:11 pm
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Posted on 2/6/17 at 10:23 pm to Kentucker
We'll be seeing some weaponized robots in battle within a decade.
The LOCUST drone-swarm technology is going to be nightmarish shite.
The LOCUST drone-swarm technology is going to be nightmarish shite.
Posted on 2/6/17 at 10:37 pm to wmr
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The LOCUST drone-swarm technology is going to be nightmarish shite.
Weird that you bring that up. I had a dream about a drone-swarm attack on ISIS. All the drones were jet black and were in different sizes. Attacking at night, the big ones took out vehicles and armaments while little ones targeted individual terrorists and pursued them until all ISIS militants were killed. They had night vision and infrared seeing capability and followed their targets even into buildings. The swarm totaled 10,000 units.
By the way, did you see the drone-swarm performance at halftime of the Super Bowl last night? That was just 300 units. It's incredible how fast drone technology is advancing.
This post was edited on 2/6/17 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 2/6/17 at 10:53 pm to Kentucker
I welcome our new robot overlords
Posted on 2/6/17 at 11:06 pm to Kentucker
If you're watching this, you are the resistance.
Posted on 2/6/17 at 11:22 pm to Kentucker
Does it do anything else besides break dance?
Posted on 2/7/17 at 12:01 am to MIZ_COU
The achievement is the incredible balance the robot is displaying. This problem has plagued robot development for two decades. Boston Dynamics had been steadily advancing, but when Google bought them and infused unlimited capital, the pace of development escalated rapidly. Posted on 2/7/17 at 12:07 am to Kentucker
and so now it can break dance.
but not spin on it's head
but not spin on it's head
Posted on 2/7/17 at 12:20 am to MIZ_COU
I'm sure that won't be a prime application, but no doubt it's possible. Military and industrial uses will come first, of course, but as AI brain power increases, personal robot assistants such as those in I, Robot will become common.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 5:14 am to Kentucker
So, when do the sexbots arrive? Asking for a friend.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 6:23 am to Kentucker
Damn it looks like a six million dollar Mr. Ed
Posted on 2/7/17 at 7:08 am to Vols&Shaft83
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So, when do the sexbots arrive? Asking for a friend.
I'm the friend. When?
Posted on 2/7/17 at 10:31 am to Vols&Shaft83
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So, when do the sexbots arrive?
The Japanese are hard at work on just this issue. Did you notice how I emphasized their efforts? They're hard at work!
Posted on 2/7/17 at 10:33 am to Kentucker
quote:there is little doubt that silicon and robots will eclipse humans for most abilities in the relatively near future.
but as AI brain power increases, personal robot assistants such as those in I, Robot will become common.
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Posted on 2/7/17 at 10:57 am to JCinBAMA
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Damn it looks like a six million dollar Mr. Ed
Well, it is intended to be a workhorse, so there's that. Maybe it's because I've been a fan of robotics all my life but I'm still surprised that not everyone is seeing this particular development as a major step forward.
Speed and agility have been attained in semi-autonomous robotics, if still rudimentary. Boston Dynamics robots have led the way in the creation of machines that will, at first, perform tasks that are dangerous or tedious for humans.
For the Handle robot it's the wheels that give it speed and the incredible balance that gives it agility. In practical applications, Handle might replace its wheels with feet to go over rough terrain when it needs to carry a "bunker buster" bomb into a terrorist cave in Afghanistan, for example. Or it might switch to its blazing speed on wheels to take down a troublemaker in an urban scenario.
As long as we can manage to keep robots semi-autonomous, meaning dependent upon humans for instructions, I think they'll be just machines performing functions. However, we know that the more complex a robot's "brain" becomes, the more it is subject to the "ghosts in the machine" mutations mentioned in I, Robot.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 10:59 am to Kentucker
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I'm sure that won't be a prime application, but no doubt it's possible. Military and industrial uses will come first, of course, but as AI brain power increases, personal robot assistants such as those in I, Robot will become common.
one small step for man, one giant leap towards singularity
Posted on 2/7/17 at 11:26 am to MIZ_COU
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there is little doubt that silicon and robots will eclipse humans it most abilities in the relatively near future.
Yes.
How many humans can you see in the pic?
This represents the brawn part of robot evolution. The brain part can be represented by Deep Blue, IBM's chess-champion and Jeopardy-winning artificial intelligence.
The pace of AI evolution is ever increasing and is marked, for enthusiasts such as me at least, by the development of robots like Handle and other Boston Dynamics machines.
This post was edited on 2/7/17 at 11:40 am
Posted on 2/7/17 at 11:37 am to cas4t
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one small step for man, one giant leap towards singularity
For the uniniated:
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The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity) is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.
According to this hypothesis, an upgradable intelligent agent (such as a computer running software-based artificial general intelligence) would enter a 'runaway reaction' of self-improvement cycles, with each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an intelligence explosion and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that would, qualitatively, far surpass all human intelligence. John von Neumann first uses the term "singularity" (c. 1950s), in the context of technological progress causing accelerating change: "The accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, give the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, can not continue".
Subsequent authors have echoed this viewpoint. I. J. Good's "intelligence explosion", predicted that a future superintelligence would trigger a singularity. Science fiction author Vernor Vinge said in his 1993 essay The Coming Technological Singularity that this would signal the end of the human era, as the new superintelligence would continue to upgrade itself and would advance technologically at an incomprehensible rate.
For the robots:
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one small step for robots, one giant leap towards singularity
Posted on 2/7/17 at 12:45 pm to Kentucker
Posted on 2/7/17 at 1:25 pm to CNB
We can go in halfsies on one until the price is within reach. The removable orfices will surely be dishwasher safe..
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