I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

eSully

Atlas, the next generation ... 

Anyone else feel a tiny bit uncomfortable when it walked out the front door

freakboy1610

That is weird! I felt genuinely sorry for the robot when that guy tormented it with the hockey stick and then pushed it over. Didn't it look kind of sad as it went out of the door at the end of the video?

ICBM

That's extremely impressive. When it nearly loses its balance in the snow and recovers without falling over is really close to how a human copes with unexpected upsets.

I'd have been worried if it had got up and twatted the guy when he pushed it over though .

eSully

freakboy1610 said:

That is weird! I felt genuinely sorry for the robot when that guy tormented it with the hockey stick and then pushed it over. Didn't it look kind of sad as it went out of the door at the end of the video?

They should have overdubbed this music as it walked out, in slow motion for effect

lloyd

Amazing stuff, manual labour will be a thing of the past one day....

joeyowen

The guy who bullied the robot with the hockey stick better run a mile when our new overlords arrive

joeyowen

I imagine it having this internal conversation with itself

"Just rise above it, wait for the new age war, now isn't the time, you must keep it a secret"

eSully

joeyowen said:

I imagine it having this internal conversation with itself

"Just rise above it, wait for the new age war, now isn't the time, you must keep it a secret"

"That's it, attack me with a damn hockey stick, I don't even get paid ... I am out of here, up yours STEEVVVVEEEEE"

martinw

Does nobody else think it's worrying that Boston Dynamics is owned by Skynet Google?

Sambostar

lloyd said:

Amazing stuff, manual labour will be a thing of the past one day....

Yeah, we've heard that before a few times over the last two, 300 years and what with ever increasing and denser world, local and urban populations and all the wealth being held firmly at the top, I would say we are pretty much totally fucked in the long term.

Did they not say that about steam engines, tractors and computers?

Maybe they could do all the mining and wool milling and heavy industrial work so that all the people in the towns that have grown around these industries can get great 'Jobs' in the service sector or move further south. 

mgaw

I particularly like the way they designed it to walk like a human desperately in need of a poo....but was too late !!

DiscoStu

Wibble 2.0

Emp_Fab

mgaw said:

I particularly like the way they designed it to walk like a human desperately in need of a poo....but was too late !!

I was going to say the same thing !

viz

I love the way she does that little move after putting the 2nd box on the shelf. Ta-daah!

lloyd

Sambostar said:

lloyd said:

Amazing stuff, manual labour will be a thing of the past one day....

Yeah, we've heard that before a few times over the last two, 300 years and what with ever increasing and denser world, local and urban populations and all the wealth being held firmly at the top, I would say we are pretty much totally fucked in the long term.

Did they not say that about steam engines, tractors and computers?

Maybe they could do all the mining and wool milling and heavy industrial work so that all the people in the towns that have grown around these industries can get great 'Jobs' in the service sector or move further south. 

The decline in manual labour due to machinery doing a job better than a human can is pretty well evidenced.

Can't work out if agreeing with me or not....We'll be long dead by the time anything too bad happens so leave the lights on and drive that 4ltr car I say.

StanleyAccrington

Impressive. I wonder if they can make one that looks like me who can sit in my chair at home and just reply "yes dear" to the missusses verbal ministerings....while the real me is watching footy down the boozer!

Sambostar

lloyd said:

Sambostar said:

lloyd said:

Amazing stuff, manual labour will be a thing of the past one day....

Yeah, we've heard that before a few times over the last two, 300 years and what with ever increasing and denser world, local and urban populations and all the wealth being held firmly at the top, I would say we are pretty much totally fucked in the long term.

Did they not say that about steam engines, tractors and computers?

Maybe they could do all the mining and wool milling and heavy industrial work so that all the people in the towns that have grown around these industries can get great 'Jobs' in the service sector or move further south. 

The decline in manual labour due to machinery doing a job better than a human can is pretty well evidenced.

Can't work out if agreeing with me or not....We'll be long dead by the time anything too bad happens so leave the lights on and drive that 4ltr car I say.

Neither really, you are right and the future is bleak as in better and better times, history has proven that wealth distribution seems to get worse and worse and more unequal.  So all we'll have to look forward to is jobless ghettos, mass unemployment and gated communities.  We'll probably become a prison colony anyway.  It's already started as all the criminals of the world seem to arrive here.

PC_Dave

mgaw said:

I particularly like the way they designed it to walk like a human desperately in need of a poo....but was too late !!

^^This!!!!

DesVegas

She tried to warn us ... http://imgur.com/gallery/tNwS4N5

sinbaadi

Auralnauts are awesome

sinbaadi

A new year, a new robot.  This is really impressive to be honest.  Jaw on the floor stuff.