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  • Google’s New ‘Human’ Robot Is Going To Freak You Out Properly [Video]

    18 Aug 2015 by Kiernan in Science, Tech/Sci, Vibe, Video
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    “I’m not saying it can do everything you can do, but you can imagine if we keep pushing we’ll get there”.

    Those were the words spoken by the gentlemen from Boston Dynamics, as we watch a human-like robot race through the woods like a drunk serial killer trying to escape the scene of a crime. I’m guessing robots will never inherit those nastier human traits, but it looks like it won’t be long before they match us physically and intellectually.

    Here’s Popular Science breaking it down:

    Funded in part by DARPA, ATLAS is ultimately destined to be a rescue robot, fitting into human-scale places that are too dangerous for humans, like nuclear reactors. In order to get to those dangerous places, it helps if it can travel across the ground,. Now the Google- (or is it Alphabet?)-owned Boston Dynamics has sent its ATLAS robot into the outdoors for the first time…

    While Boston Dynamics is working on a eventually removing the power cord tether from the bot, it’s still necessary for ATLAS to function. Once that’s gone, though, an ATLAS robot that gets outside could wander around like a big stumbling robot child.

    Yeah, they start off like stumbling robot children but 16 years later you’re still paying for their services and they have developed a strong dislike for your authority over them. I mean hell, they can even open doors now.

    Be afraid humans, these creepy machines could spell trouble.

    [source:popsci]

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