Boston Dynamics

[Craig Good]

I don't know how many of you have been following Boston Dynamics for the last few years. But they have come really far really quickly.

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

I'd say the robot shows a lot of restraint by merely exiting.

[Jack Saunders]

Good progress.  Keep on truckin.

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[Vince Koloski]

Was the robot just exiting, or was this the robot version of "let's take it outside..."

[Matt Fish]

This is absolutely astounding progress.

Maybe I've read too much sci-fi but I find this unsettling. First application, the pentagon orders a million for their robot army, making ongoing war seemingly bloodless for the US. The second "killer app" is that moment when some artificial intelligence finds a robot body as host and it realizes its makers used to shove it with hockey sticks. It's not going to walk out the door then.

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[David Fetter]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 09:13:34PM -0800, Craig Good wrote:
> I don't know how many of you have been following Boston Dynamics for

> the last few years. But they have come *really* far *really*

> quickly.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
>
> I'd say the robot shows a lot of restraint by merely exiting.

Let's take a little time to imagine what an unrestrained robot could
do even without specialty gear.

As I recall from teaching self defense classes, most of what keeps
people from injuring each other in a physical confrontation is
inhibitions against hurting other people, a very good thing in a
social species. None of the techniques I taught were complex or
strength based. The lethal ones were all the simplest, mechanically
speaking.

As to specialty gear, a very tiny pointy or edged thing is a massive
upgrade in lethality, which is why sane people regard carrying a
weapon as an explicit threat of death.

Cheers,
David.
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[Matt Fish]

Fun fact: Google owns Boston Dynamics. So the company that makes these robots is also gathering all kinds of information about everybody. What could possibly go wrong?

This is "funny":
https://twitter.com/brentbutt/status/412700627152961536

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[Matt Fish]

Follow up video that's pretty funny:

http://youtu.be/uXcatFp3REg

[Craig Good]

Brilliant.

> On Feb 26, 2016, at 08:16 AM, Matt Fish <mattfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Follow up video that's pretty funny:
>
> http://youtu.be/uXcatFp3REg

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