Newsflash, cars drive faster than humans run. Planes fly higher than humans jump.
You have no sense of wonder or imagination, do you? We have been making robots for decades, and this is the first time we have ever made humanoid ones which is able to outperform actual humans in this way. At last year’s robot games, the highest one was able to jump was under a meter, and now they can beat the human world record of 2.45 meters.
That’s absolutely phenomenal engineering, and it’s completely reductive to equate it to completely different technologies that exist to solve completely different problems. It’s phenomenal in the same way that it was phenomenal when we created the first chess bot that a human was unable to defeat.
You have no concern for the future of humanity, do you?
Maybe there are better things to waste resources on than pointless clunker that nobody wants or needs.
Even if computerized chess were some kind of major achievement (it’s not), it wasn’t the massive waste of energy, resources, and hype that this nonsense is.
Sooooooo you’ve got a heart transplant to get into the middle of a dense forest during a war, there’s too much flak for air support, and a vehicle would go at a snails pace.
Would you rather die because technology didn’t advance to allow a robot to be able to run through the forest at breakneck speed because planes exist? Or should we be trying to advance technology at every barrier because there’s other situations where those just don’t make a lick of fucking sense.
There’s obviously contextual situations where a plane and vehicle don’t make sense, but sure let’s inhibit progress for… whatever reason you think you’re making here….?
Cool fantasy if you’re a billionaire. The rest of us are dying in that “dense forest”. jfc.
I just want health care. I don’t give a shit about these dumb clunkers and their imaginary heroics.
A biped car would be so easy to parallel park
You mean a motorbike?
Feels like “beating human records” is pretty meaningless for things that are… not human. I was intrigued to see what the entry criteria were since these are meant to be humanoid, but couldn’t find any real information on it.
While i largely agree with your point, I’m sure the fact they can run faster than any human is of interest to various militarys.
No. The military already has drones that are far cheaper and faster than these pointless clunkers.
Being able to balance and move realistically as a bipedal with speed is quite the feat though.
I bet they can’t vomit and then eat the vomit though
Even my stupid puppy can do that
But can YOU?
Am I allowed to put Tabasco on it?
Only if you put it on before it came back out
Its a glorified RC car…
Big deal. My Toyota Celica beat Bolt’s record too.
So they have the same weakness with everything that run fast: stopping and obstacle avoiding, and can be defeated by tripping 📝
China is training robot soldiers. We should start developing EMPs.
Or maybe stop threatening and invading the other side of the planet? Pursue mutually beneficial research and trade instead?
I’m sure USA can do it. \s \s \s
DEPLOY THE TREBEUCHET. Maybe Einstein was correct to say no matter what ww3 will be fought with, ww4 will be sticks n stones.
The real answer is drones currently. Small, agile, cheap. What advantage does a humanoid robot have over drones?
What advantage does a humanoid robot have over drones?
Another revenue stream for the grift economy.
Here is the real answer. You can annihilate the living hell out of somewhere with drones, missiles, nukes. But unless you have actual boots on the ground defending the position you’re in, that is not claimed territory.
Humanoid robots controlled by humans or AI, can defend territory until human troops secure an area and setup defenses.
Now let’s get going with that EMP!!!
There’s no reason that violent control needs to take a humanoid shape.
The empire can control people by murdering them with drones much more easily than murdering with “humanoids”.
Opening doors for example currently drones are very good at open field warfare but have problems with for example bunkers
I’m pretty sure that a robot on wheels can open a door as easily as a robot on legs.
Small ground drone on fiber optics that carry an antitank mine or a bomb can open doors alright. Also various artillery systems work great against static targets.
- carry objects around
- can actually lift meaningful amounts of weight
- probably has fingers and can rotate screws in etc.
- can probably operate tools that require fingers with more precision than mini-helicopters?
Objects are carried by UGVs, they can carry 200-300 kilograms while being pretty small, small UGVs can carry up to 100 kilos with size of ~1m in every dimension. Unless you can explain to a very expensive and smart robot what you need to rotate and where and how to operate tools given, you’ll need a very competent pilot for these robots which with high probability would still be worse than dumbest of humans because they lack agility and require a lot of supportive infra to operate. Rich nations probably would try to make humanoid robots (like they did with robodogs) with questionable success.
People should be concerned. Robots like these may be deployed against Taiwan in the next few years.
“Against” Taiwan… Or “for” Taiwan… Probably both since neither empire really gives a shit about the Taiwanese.
Battery life maybe an issue.
Probably good for an hour
She might say that would also be an improvement over humans.
Very gimmicky
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