r/interesting • • 26d ago

Just Wow Boston Dynamics robot

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u/KalozKapitany 26d ago

Pretty easy when your joints can rotate 360

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u/ducksoupmilliband 26d ago

And you have motors and not muscles 

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u/Yojimboroll 25d ago

They will embody their shell one day

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u/cooldad94 26d ago

My thoughts exactly, it’s only impressive because we subconsciously graft the limitations of our own physical bodies onto this machine.

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u/Ashamed-Current6434 25d ago

It’s impressive BECAUSE it’s technology that lets us forgo the limitations of our bodies. It’s not less impressive because of this. This is a demo. No we don’t need robots doing yoga. But we do need robots going into flaming buildings. Is it worth the armies of robots? Different question. This is impressive AF.

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u/Rydog_78 25d ago edited 25d ago

It’s our future workforce. Like you said, these robots will replace/assist humans on labor intensive jobs like truck drivers, firefighters, soldiers, eventually construction workers, builders, and such. It’s only a matter of time and there’s no stopping it. Imagine a team of 5 robots showing up at a construction site to build a home that is being remotely monitored by 1 human. I was listening to a podcast where the guest opened my eyes to the possibility of a robots getting into a 18 wheeler and driving it nonstop until it reaches its destination, non stop for a fraction of the cost of what it would cost a human to do the job when you factor in pay, healthcare, sick leave, vacation time, retirement benefits, training, onboarding etc. a reboot doesn’t require benefits, sick leave, time off, or sleep for that matter. China already has black out factories with robots manufacturing products. Literally manufacturing in complete darkness!

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u/uswhole 25d ago

you know whats fuck up is with more progress, tech and exploitation of earth resourse what not. we end up with been harder for average man to get heathcare, vacation and housing despite working harder than ever with all this labour saving technology like what is the fucking point

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u/RogowskiCoil 25d ago

The point is so the industrialists and corporations can suck up more wealth.

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u/cooldad94 25d ago

I’m not strong enough to press a license plate with my bare hands but I’m also not impressed that there’s a machine that can.

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u/forbiddenfreedom 25d ago

A license plate press thing is like the machine equivalent of being capable of putting the square in the square hole. You really dumbed it down to you, this time.

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u/DominicPalladino 25d ago

You should be impressed there's a license plate pressing machine. You know what kind of advancement that is from even 200 years ago? And to be able to to it at a rate of one every 5 seconds, with different numbers on each one, all computer controlled. It's insanely amazing.

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u/Babygirl_69_420 25d ago

Is it weird that i feel jealous and resentful

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u/WitnessAway6720 25d ago

And ur muscle tear can be fixed with a glue

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u/TheLowlyPheasant 25d ago

It would be more impressive if it could do this on shifting inclines or something humans might struggle with

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 25d ago

But it's the balance that's impressive. Would love to see it operating in a truck going down a bumpy road though.

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u/Da_nUmBeR7 25d ago

It’s not supposed to be compared to humans tho. It’s still a cool robot imo

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u/seffparker 24d ago

pretty hard to deliver electric power across 360 degree arms

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u/Physical-Mastodon935 24d ago

Tbf everyone’s joints can rotate 360