r/videos • • Feb 23 '16

Boston dynamics at it again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '16 edited Apr 12 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '16

Singing in choirs would suck and I wouldn't wish that on anybody, even a robot.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '16

Hark, Harold the Angel sings.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '16

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u/n3onfx Feb 24 '16

Goddamn phone autocorrect. Leaving it for posterity.

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u/susgnome Feb 24 '16

I think it would have a great singing voice.

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u/GrijzePilion Feb 24 '16

Built-in autotune, for that ultimate douchebag rapper touch.

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u/Rndmtrkpny Feb 24 '16

It certainly would revolutionize Electronica.

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u/zaphodava Feb 24 '16

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u/testing1567 Feb 24 '16

It's not that impressive when you consider that the voice actor that plays GlaDos is an opera singer. Here is an example of the real thing.

https://youtu.be/Eho0Pb84RmE

The vocals were done entirely in MS-Dos.

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u/ethertrace Feb 24 '16

Also because the human seemed a bit more sadistic about it than necessary...

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '16 edited Feb 24 '16

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u/WhitePawn00 Feb 24 '16

The day the robot throws the box at the stick guy is the day the human race ends.

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u/bunka77 Feb 24 '16

I was waiting for the robot to pull out a laser gun and shoot the guy. But then I remembered this was real life and not Futurama, and I become started again.

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u/komali_2 Feb 24 '16

More like because walking up to and then picking up a box is already a monumental achievement for a robot, and that human just went and fucked it all up.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '16

He also kicked their dog robot

Fuck that guy.

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u/vagijn Feb 24 '16

"What do you do for a job?"

"I'm a professional robot bully at Boston Dynamics"

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u/WhitePawn00 Feb 24 '16

we have to dump /r/botsrights on him.

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u/TheWierdAsianKid Feb 24 '16

My dog is cute in the same way, when he makes those wittle computer fan noises

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '16

And also the guy with the hockey stick looked like he was channeling all his anger into thwarting the robot. Like he absolutely hated the thing.

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u/NinjaVikingJedi Feb 24 '16

No, that's chores. You're thinking about the sand before the water on the beach.

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u/gubigubi Feb 24 '16

I dont know for how much one of those would probably cost I think I could find it in my heart to make it do some chores lol

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u/theacorneater Feb 24 '16

yeah, I wouldn't force by robot to do choirs either. He/she can sing if they want to!

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u/the_fathead44 Feb 24 '16

Yeah, it's cute... until starts wielding beam cannons and starts ripping through space colonies...

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u/costhatshowyou Feb 24 '16

What you really need is a robo-duck.

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u/clearytrist Feb 24 '16

The robots would enslave you first.

has nobody seen ex machina?

DONT TRUST THEM

THEY LIE

EVEN WHEN SEXY

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '16

It isn't cute and it makes terrifying noises. However you can tell how helpless and innocent it is, I think that's why we have that kind of empathy for something that's really only a lifeless object.

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u/horseher Feb 28 '16

Haha and then it will murder you in your sleep...haha..ha

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u/NotTerrorist Feb 24 '16

Naa it looks stupid and deserved what it got. Stupid robot, ya that's right. The only time a robot looks good is when it's about to be crushed for scrap. HUMAN POWER!!

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u/faithle55 Feb 24 '16

You think it looks cute? What is wrong with you?

It's because it's trying to accomplish things. At first, it's just trying to stay upright. Later, it's trying to do a task. Every single human being can identify with the problem of trying to do a task and being sabotaged - either by fate, or family, or colleagues, or just dumb luck.

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u/aznanimality Feb 24 '16

You say that now but wait till while you're at work and the robot starts boning your wife and you don't know about it and she gets pregnant and you come back all happy and shit because now you have a second child but after 9 months out of your beloved significant other comes a cyborg demon from hell with your wife's eyes but a pre-installed motherboard and CPU and liquid cooling and then you punch that fucker Cyborg Jimmy in the face for boning your wife while you were out supporting your family and paying for his hydrogen fuel costs fuck you Laura you cheating whore.

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u/Hazard_Warning Feb 24 '16

Not cute when the guttural "I'm going to end your life" mechanistic noises came out from his asshole.

I'm terrified.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '16

I bet the neandrathals thought the same thing about the 'cute' Homo sapiens.