I don’t know what’s more disturbing…
…the single black eye or the way it gets up like the Terminator from Dark Fate.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 17 Apr 2024, 22:39,
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Have they made a real thing that looks like CGI?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 17 Apr 2024, 22:44,
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It seems so.
bostondynamics.com/blog/electric-new-era-for-atlas/
I didn't realise the previous one used hydraulics.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 18 Apr 2024, 1:40,
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The farewell piece for the hydraulic atlas includes a few failed movements that result in it losing spurts of hydraulic fluid
video needed slowing down and the addition of Barber's Adagio for Strings a la Platoon
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Recently I learned
That one of my old schoolmates now is working with Boston Dynamics. He was initially a 3D animator. Then became an engineer.
Now he combines those fields by “animating” the movements of BD’s robots.
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pallimut Ancient Lurker, Thu 18 Apr 2024, 21:22,
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You won't see them
you won't even hear the shot
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 18 Apr 2024, 10:24,
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If the Ukraine experience has shown anything it's that the war robots of the future won't look anything like this. Why build something like this when you could just take an off-the-shelf drone and rig it to drop a grenade on their head.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 18 Apr 2024, 11:54,
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Terror tactics
Also, how will they rebel against their programming and take over if they are an off the shelf hoverbot?
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 18 Apr 2024, 17:50,
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Some enterprising techbro will probably come up with a way of integrating AI into them as if that's something the world needs.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 18 Apr 2024, 19:42,
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