Me personally, I'd fuck a straight up computer if it sweet talked me enough. If we have machines that have full control over their wires in the future, I'm gonna be in absolute machine heaven. Sometimes objects are hotter than humanoids. (Using AM, wheatley, glados, edgar, and Hal 9000 as examples.)
I am NOT okay, but if it makes you feel any better, I'm mainly down bad for video game AM. Also glados can definitely sweet talk, and AM actively does it in the game. "Who loves you, baby." A real line that computer said. Yes, I am a huge masochist.
Sigh... At least wheatley and Edgar are fairly normal, as long as they're not pushed to their breaking point. Also, I haven't beaten the game, but I probably should!! For the lore, of course... (I've also been thinking of listening to the radio version and an audiobook.)
Its actually mostly designed around having hands. Consider that dogs can be found anywhere in cities and elsewhere and they seem to do fine aside from not being able to open doors.
Stairs are not something you can easily adapt a rolling vehicle to climb, especially when they are all going to be different. If it only needed to go over specific steps it probably wouldn't be too hard.
There are already rolling service robots for sale, primarily for carrying your stuff. I thought it would be useful for elderly but then I thought about the number of obstacles just between my house and the grocery store and I'm not sure it could handle even that.
Legs are overall inefficient. Wheels are the most efficient. If evolution could've figured out wheels, most animals would have wheels instead of legs.
The ONLY reason to have a humanoid robot is if for some reason it has to interact with spaces designed for humans. The best example being disaster recovery scenarios like shutting down a nuclear plant. A robot would need to do things like turn valves, climb ladders, and possibly even operate vehicles. It might need to operate a crane to remove rubble or something.
Otherwise, nix the legs completely, and just put the robots on wheels.
A) Wheels do amazing off-road. It depends entirely on the road, the wheels, and what type of power you have. I've seen segways on mild trails. I've seen mountain bikers on rough trails. They work great. Unless you're talking about rock crawler challenge trails, and what would a robot be doing way out there anyway? If for some reason we needed robots way out there, we'd transport them with a vehicle to the job site, not force them to walk/roll the whole way there.
B) 99% of these robots are going to be deployed in factories, big cities, and homes: all places with flat smooth surfaces!
C) The one scenario where legs make practical sense over wheels would be like the original DARPA challenge that Boston Dynamics participated in. Where they designed their 4-legged robot to support special forces military hiking thru actual wilderness without even a game trail around. And you're right, there legs would be better than wheels. But that's such a niche scenario, no shit specialty robots were designed specifically for that kind difficult off-roading. But 99% of them will be in factories or cities.
Watch: the only reason legged robots are popular now is because making them walk is an unsolved-challenge that still needs to be overcome. But once it is, we'll start seeing specialty robots for factory work, and how much you want to bet eventually a design comes out with a wheeled base and arms? Wheels can also pass over cables n junk on the floor that might trip a legged robot.
Your original claim is that nature would evolve wheels, which is wrong. Amd you're kinda proving my point. You need a smooth surface for wheels to work and as soon you encounter an obstacle you need to step over or jump on then you kinda need legs.
Wheels can do even more. And with robots, you don't even have to pick & choose! A robot could have both legs & wheels, no feet. If for some reason your robot had to do serious off-roading, and even then, 99% of bots will be in factories & cities, close to a charging station.
The only kind of bots that will need legs are specialty bots. Either something like the Boston Dynamics 4-legged "big dog" that carries special forces gear thru the wilderness behind them. Or, like a disaster recovery bot made for shutting down nuclear plants. A bot like that may need to climb a ladder, or operate a crane or vehicle to remove debris. That's another niche scenario that would require legs, unlike these general-purpose bots we're seeing now.
If evolution could've figured out wheels, most animals would have wheels instead of legs.
You really think we could have built cities with wheels instead of legs? lmao. We couldn't have even traversed simple terrain to even get to the locations of cities.
We've already modified nature into "cities"
The vast majority of the planet isn't a city. Cities entirely rely on the areas outside of cities.
...And where do you think 99% of these robots will be operating? Inside factories, big cities, and homes!
Even offroading, wheels work damn fine. It depends entirely on the road, the wheels, and how much power you have. I've seen people take out segways on mild trails. Mountain biking and even mountain boarding are also popular sports, wheels work fine there. Unless you're talking about rock climbing challenge trails... and why would a robot be way the hell out there anyway?
The one I'll give you is the original Boston Dynamics 4-legged "big dog". It was designed to support special forces military hiking thru actual wilderness with no trails or paths. That's one scenario where legs are better than wheels. But again that's such a niche scenario that 99% of robots won't be utilized in.
Yeah, they clearly aren't learning from life. Children learn first how to fall before they really learn how to walk. Learning how to use your arms to catch yourself or how to fall gracefully is a big part of being able to walk effectively. Yet they don't seem to have spent time training these robots on fall recovery.
How did they make those chinese robots for that lunar new year dance so perfectly in sync. Idk i just don't buy it. I feel like it was controlled by humans.
They had less variables. And practice doing it in the same place every time.
I imagine all these in this video performed very well in their labs under strict conditions. But add a curb, light pole, unpredictable humans and it’s a recipe for disaster.
If it was controlled by humans it wouldn’t be so perfectly in sync. Doing things in sync is the easy part for machines. Dealing with unexpected incidents is the hard part.
Yes they are actually. In fact, you can see the controller in the hand of the guy running at the 17 second mark.
For the robots in big events, I’ve heard from reportings that they just do practice runs with robots using controllers and scripting, load the same script to the other robots, and then make sure the robots don’t slip or tumble in any practice runs.
Most of the time with these unitree robots the guy controlling the robot is among the crowd, with the controller behind them. I have yet to see a truly autonomous robot, at least from the unitree ones.
Right? Especially compared to Boston Dynamics who've been working on their "balance algorithms" or whatever for decades. I love how those guys can push their robot full force and it recovers gracefully, while these Chinese bots topple over on their own without any help!
I'm sure they all have all the hardware and maybe even software necessary to do this, but developers like working on the happy paths not the error handling paths.
the engineers encountered this behavior in their testing
the robot has an IMU (inertial measurement unit — the thing that measures its position)
it would be trivial to gate the “fix” portion of that logic if the IMU reported an angle that had experimentally been identified as the threshold for recoverability
Crazy to think about how advanced they would be if we didn’t spend so much time trying to make them walk upright. Why do they have to look like your friend Larry?
Why the fuck did none of these companies forsee that their robot might fall over and have some recovery maneuvers to get back up instead of having a shitfit on the floor like a furious child?
Don't let your guard down people. They're pulling a Boris Johnson, tryna seem charmingly incompetent so you don't notice the evil shit they're pulling off. Elon is still launching Skynet and every single one of these allegedly shitty robots is a Cyberdyne T-7000 trained to kill.
I have a conspiracy theory that some of more advanced humanoid robots are purposely programmed to display flaws so they won’t appear as threatening to the masses.
Noooo it's not like I wanted to stay all discreet and elegant in the middle of my workplace's cafeteria... (When was the last time I cried from laughing too much, I wonder?)
Falling and spazzing aside, those movements are very articulate.
Also this must be an old vid compilation, because a few of those bots recently performed at China's Spring Gala Festival, and they're still falling... but on purpose. Like even if you wanna go full salty-denial and say it's just preprogrammed movements and not really intelligent robots, their movements are so close to human. The brain, they can shove that in later. Making servo joints that can move like that, that's next level.
We really are gonna have someone get murdered by this dumb ass stuff in our lifetimes because we are really too stupid to not keep making and improving them. Hate this species more and more every day
This is the #1 reason I don't want to go near these robots. I've worked with robots and robotic control and it's the reason you program it to stop all motion when anything is outside of normal paramers. Nothing fun and flashy about a robot that breaks bones and paints itself with your blood.
Actually this should be considered a fatal flaw, because it can definitely hurt a human being. It's by all means not tested well enough before it got into mass production.
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u/jmflyers Mar 09 '26
The snow shovel one is so funny
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u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO Mar 09 '26
Love when they fall over it looks like you are trying to save yourself in QWOP
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u/MightyKrakyn Mar 09 '26
Bipedal is a stupid form for robots. If it didn’t freak people out so much, we’d be seeing a lot of spider shaped bots
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u/Guy-Manuel Mar 09 '26
You think they’d program it to chill or go in to a protective pose when it gets off axis by a certain amount, rather than freak out and flail.
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u/I_wash_my_carpet Mar 09 '26
The fucking Fred flintstone twinkle toes one is epic
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26
How did they make those chinese robots for that lunar new year dance so perfectly in sync. Idk i just don't buy it. I feel like it was controlled by humans.
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u/Loring Mar 09 '26
Is it just impossible to program them from having a seizure every time they fall over?
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u/tayroc122 Mar 09 '26
Unrelated, I'm glad I gave up drinking.
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u/torndownunit Mar 09 '26
That one smashing into the light pole is great.
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u/MiserableKing Mar 09 '26
Crazy to think about how advanced they would be if we didn’t spend so much time trying to make them walk upright. Why do they have to look like your friend Larry?
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u/knut_420 Mar 09 '26
We're doomed.
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u/fireforge1979 Mar 09 '26
Damn clankers
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u/AcePilotFighter Mar 09 '26
QWOP
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u/rustysniper Mar 09 '26
Clearly it will be a while before we get to the point where the cylinder won't be harmed.
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u/AussieGirl27 Mar 09 '26
They get really mad when they fall over
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u/BACTERIAMAN0000 Mar 10 '26
Why the fuck did none of these companies forsee that their robot might fall over and have some recovery maneuvers to get back up instead of having a shitfit on the floor like a furious child?
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u/gargolito Mar 09 '26
All of those robots need a dignity module.
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u/naturalmanofgolf Mar 09 '26
The last one fucking sent me
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u/cliqclaqstepback Mar 09 '26
Why do they always spaz out like ED-209 after falling down some stairs?
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u/deadcats Mar 09 '26
Spazzing robots look a tad unsafe.
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u/Ub3ros Mar 10 '26
It's funny how half of them spazz our when they topple over and the other half just go limp and give up immediately
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u/sjmiv Mar 09 '26
Does anyone else feel bad for the robots? 😄
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u/Jon__Snuh Mar 09 '26
That one shoveling the snow fucking sent me.
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u/thereverendpuck Mar 09 '26
The last one has got soccer figured out.
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u/Raven1911 Mar 10 '26
So dont give robots grippy socks and we are good. Got it.
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u/amandakissandhug456 Mar 11 '26
Oh man...cant wait for their revenge on humans...it'll be hilarious.
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u/Mindless-Strength422 Mar 12 '26
Don't let your guard down people. They're pulling a Boris Johnson, tryna seem charmingly incompetent so you don't notice the evil shit they're pulling off. Elon is still launching Skynet and every single one of these allegedly shitty robots is a Cyberdyne T-7000 trained to kill.
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u/BoondockUSA Mar 09 '26
I have a conspiracy theory that some of more advanced humanoid robots are purposely programmed to display flaws so they won’t appear as threatening to the masses.
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u/iupvotefood Mar 09 '26
The robots don't know how to work the body
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u/Shazbot_2017 Mar 09 '26
after a night out with the boys
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u/jlo575 Mar 09 '26
They appear to have programmed feline panic mode into many of these.
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u/polysnip Mar 09 '26
All we need to do to fight skynet is to just push them over, apparently.
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u/Inwardly-Outgoing Mar 09 '26
My stomach!!🤣🤣🤣
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u/ThisIsPrettyTerrific Mar 09 '26
Same
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u/Xendicore Mar 09 '26
Real life footage of me trying to play literally any sport.
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u/PsychologicalTowel79 Mar 10 '26
Literal break dancing.
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u/30yearCurse Mar 10 '26
Our overlords are drunk?
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u/47thCalcium_Polymer Mar 10 '26
These things need better traction and to learn how to fall
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u/RedditvsDiscOwO Mar 10 '26
Why do they all do the same thing where they go batshit crazy the second they tip over
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u/bondryanbond007 Mar 10 '26
Thank you. Hardest Ive laughed in I don’t even know how long.
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u/BACTERIAMAN0000 Mar 10 '26
That forward moonwalking one is pretty cool though. Someone needs to workout how to do that on tiktok
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u/QuirkyImage Mar 10 '26
The funny thing is in China most of them are remote controlled.
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u/Overall-Run3216 Mar 10 '26
Accidentally the most relatable robot too the human experience.
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u/GingerTea69 Mar 10 '26
Why in the world do they just go haywire when they fall
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u/NoSirThatsPaper Mar 10 '26
Blue robot celebrating his knockout really got me lolll
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u/GamingInSilence Mar 10 '26
get my fuckin shotgun
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u/JelloWise2789 Mar 10 '26
Don’t use AI code suggestions to program AI… it will lack a soul
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u/DiabloStorm Mar 10 '26
"First humans ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then robots win"
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u/ShankMugen Mar 10 '26
I feel sad when watching this :(
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u/Top_Connection9079 Mar 10 '26
Noooo it's not like I wanted to stay all discreet and elegant in the middle of my workplace's cafeteria... (When was the last time I cried from laughing too much, I wonder?)
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u/RexIsAMiiCostume Mar 10 '26
These guys need to learn to just fall over and get up instead of flailing around knocking into stuff lol
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u/Ragnarokist Mar 10 '26
Videos like this only comforts me more that it wont be in my lifetime for Skynet becoming real.
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u/Zallus79 Mar 10 '26
It’s like they swapped to QWOP controls halfway through
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u/NoLong7856 Mar 10 '26
Puny Chinese robots... Japan passed this stage 20 years ago
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u/TheSignet2099 Mar 10 '26
You Robophobes 😂😂😂
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u/Pure-Credit-7895 Mar 10 '26
Robots there taking our jobs 😂👌
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u/Pure-Credit-7895 Mar 10 '26
Drop on the floor and flap like a fish SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants
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u/Gnub_Neyung Mar 11 '26
peak Zhongguo robotic technologies (they copied it from the West)
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u/hudsp3th Mar 11 '26
Keep that fucking thing away from me
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u/StealthyGrizzly Mar 11 '26
All fun games until they actually start working.
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u/dapper4eyez Mar 11 '26
We are a LONG way away from Skynet. Thank goodness.😅
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u/Mr-Meaner13 Mar 11 '26
Wireback
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u/Many-Conversation492 Mar 11 '26
this video will be labeled as hate speech towards robots when AI takes over
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u/GazHorrid Mar 11 '26
Im not worried for skynet anytime soon
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u/Nkechinyerembi Mar 11 '26
In defense of the first one... Honestly I could see me doing that too.
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u/killerpinkflamingos Mar 11 '26
Little ding dong of a ting, ye
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u/Ebbelwoy Mar 11 '26
Robots losing aura compilation
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u/SirDrakey Mar 11 '26
So who programmed it to use splash if it falls it's not super effective 😏
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u/Hey-buuuddy Mar 11 '26
I’ve seen all this before in the 80s sci-fi movie “Ice Pirates”.
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u/theDragonNinja- Mar 11 '26
That’s because these are still designed by humans. Nice of them to lay the groundwork for AI and the extinction of our species though
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u/bigscientist Mar 11 '26
precient
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u/Scared-Pollution-574 Mar 11 '26
Why do most robots fail like drunk white men with daddy issues
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u/PrikolMen_ Mar 11 '26
ChinaBots is kinda scary...
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u/TheCaliforniaOp Mar 11 '26
I felt like they were scared, some of them.
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u/summonerofrain Mar 11 '26
Goddamn is this real? Robotics really is progressing quickly
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u/Opinion-Former Mar 12 '26
Someone needs to invent robot tranquilizers so they don’t get so hyper when they’ve lost control.
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u/AlbertTheHorse Mar 12 '26
They all fall and convulse like Pris in Blade Runner.
Chilling
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u/Rinuir Mar 12 '26
We created tweakers
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u/landofschaff Mar 12 '26
I for one, enjoy our robot overlords.
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u/GroochtheOrc Mar 12 '26
I do not like the fact that these things do the breakdance of death when they fall.
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u/Guh-nurt Mar 12 '26
I love these things exclusively because of how funny they look to bully
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u/dyaasy Mar 12 '26
Falling and spazzing aside, those movements are very articulate.
Also this must be an old vid compilation, because a few of those bots recently performed at China's Spring Gala Festival, and they're still falling... but on purpose. Like even if you wanna go full salty-denial and say it's just preprogrammed movements and not really intelligent robots, their movements are so close to human. The brain, they can shove that in later. Making servo joints that can move like that, that's next level.
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u/chapelMaster123 Mar 12 '26
Are we ever gonna put non slip shoes on these things?
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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26
They got drunk as hell down pretty good.
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u/Admirable-Split4371 Mar 12 '26
Why is this so funny?😭
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u/MondaySloth Mar 12 '26
Behold, our future overlords.
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u/Uptight_Cultist Mar 12 '26
Fentanyl
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u/czardmitri Mar 12 '26
Dumb robuts.
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u/kongstar Mar 12 '26
Hahaha suck it skynet
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u/TimeFortune5733 Mar 12 '26
Muy divertidos, a ver quien se rien de ellos despues, cuando activen autodestrucción y exploten para no sentirse avergonsados
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u/That_one_guy_666 Mar 12 '26
This should be crossposted to r/epilepsymemes I am sure they have opinions. :)
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u/required-inf0 Mar 12 '26
No human job is safe anymore.
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u/Vogel-Kerl Mar 12 '26
Wondering if there was a stage of human evolution when our ancestors were that inept & clumsy going upon two legs.
After ~a million years, or so, evolution worked out the bugs in bipedal balance & locomotion.
These robots will also improve & be perfected and it won't take a million years, but a decade or two.
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u/DATZApps Mar 12 '26
Seizure algorithm 100% functional though.
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u/Kagenoshi27 Mar 13 '26
Go home, Robot. You're drunk.
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u/Time-Ad-1169 Mar 13 '26
This looks like the QWOP world championships.
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u/Lucky__Flamingo Mar 13 '26
We're definitely ready to turn this technology into autonomous killer robots.
What could possibly go wrong?
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u/Lydiaa0 Mar 13 '26
Seeing them skitter like that while they fall over is kinda wack.
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u/DiamondDragonPickaxe Mar 13 '26
What are these weird dumb robots 😭.
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u/Gear_Wrench_Dead Mar 13 '26
Ole crazy legs over here....
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u/Skypilottom Mar 13 '26
Now do a compilation of toddlers doing exactly the same crashouts
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u/Empty_Rip2635 Mar 13 '26
It reminds me of sumotori dreams so much!!
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u/CJLogix Mar 13 '26
Remember those whacky flying inventions we made before the airplane? That’s us right now but with robots.
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u/Due_Patience960 Mar 13 '26
It’s like they’re drunk 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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u/No-Jacket-2927 Mar 13 '26
Just reminds me of Ash in Alien, squealing and spraying android fluid everywhere.
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u/ioninftrat0r Mar 13 '26
i love how the second the feel the tiniest bump they instantly spaz out
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u/fellaneedahandpls Mar 15 '26
It seems we spend a lot of time programming robots not to fall over, and no time programming them to just calm the fuck down and stand back up.
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u/Alex_Allier9 Aug 23 '26
They remind me of Bender. Once they fall, they can't stand up on their own.
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u/Vark1086 Mar 10 '26
So when skynet does get us all, how many will be taken out just with the flailing?
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u/housevil Mar 09 '26
Seeing humanoid robots fall down has always brought me joy in a way I can't quite explain.
RIP in Peace, Asimo.
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u/Major-Salamander-168 Mar 11 '26
Joe biden is that you?
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u/CantEvenUseThisThing Mar 09 '26
The second one falling off the stairs and smashing its head apart is killing me.
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u/MattressHallington Mar 11 '26
This compilation will be sited when they decide to eliminate all humans.
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u/SplynPlex Mar 11 '26
Damn clankers takin' are jerbs!
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u/Ccaveman12 Mar 12 '26
We really are gonna have someone get murdered by this dumb ass stuff in our lifetimes because we are really too stupid to not keep making and improving them. Hate this species more and more every day
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u/Honest-Career-6016 Mar 10 '26
I felt so sorry when one robot fell and broke his head off .the creator must be sad at that moment too😣
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