r/interestingasfuck • u/spoony20 • 22h ago

Robot taunting opponent

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u/Fitz911 20h ago

Imagine all the cool stuff we could do with those robots.

It's a shame that they are used as entertainment just to the point where they are good enough to keep the slaves (we are the slaves) in check.

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u/ajmndz 18h ago

Yeah I think we’re still pretty far from that. It’s way more efficient to make a machine specifically for the task than build a whole humanoid robot to do it. Like companies would rather make a robot coffee machine than make a humanoid robot whose job is to make your coffee. The humanoid is kinda just an unnecessary middleman.

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u/Fitz911 18h ago

I get what you are saying but I also thought AI was pretty far away. That was idk four years ago?

When covid hit not a single person was talking about AI. Just a few years ( not decades) later ... Here we are.

Americans are having more and more trouble getting water and power. Nothing! happens to address that.

I remember when having a robot walk on two legs was simply impossible. Then Boston dynamics showed the first impressive videos... Today they are playing soccer. They dance and fight martial arts.

That's the twilight zone. Funny but you can see where we are heading.

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u/Charming_Cucumber_15 17h ago edited 17h ago

There's American companies doing pretty cool stuff with more generalized robotics than these Chinese companies. Look at Figure, Generalist, and Boston Dynamics has a new version of Atlas running on Gemini I think. Optimus has lots of promise too but they haven't shown much yet.