http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/google-puts-boston-dynamics-up-for-sale/
>Though the video amassed 14 million views and a number of ecstatic tech articles drooling over the possibilities, Google remained uncomfortable with the future of Boston Dynamics. According to more emails made public, Google had serious concerns about the company’s affiliation with Alphabet and instead desired to move away from the group.
>“There’s excitement from the tech press, but we’re also starting to see some negative threads about it being terrifying, ready to take humans’ jobs,” wrote Courtney Hohne, Google’s director of communications. “We’re not going to comment on this video because there’s not a whole lot we can add, and we don’t want to answer most of the Qs it triggers.”
>In the same note, Hohne advised those she was communicating with to “distance X from this video,” and cited an unwillingness to start a new “media cycle” on BD’s involvement with Google. So while people may have joked about how Boston Dynamics’ mistreatment of the robot could spark a robotic uprising, it seems Google took that response to heart and decided to take Google X in a different direction.
All you fags saying "HURR SKYNET" and "OMG SCARY" may have just fucked robotics for the next 10 years. Way to go.
are they gonna ditch their self driving cars as well?
if not, they are just full of shit and don't actually give two shits about American jobs at stake
Are robots bro tier?
>>67817067
google itself is owned by alphabet. which is really just a funny way to say THE CIA.
op got played like the faggot he is because he takes the MSM at face value
>>67817067
Clearly we don't deserve nice things, fear wins again.
>>67817599
The reorganization under "Alphabet" has been fucking disastrous for that whole "Google is a cyberpunk company today, with a ton of skunkworks" idea. If it's not making money within 5 years, they're not going to fund it.
It's sad, because Google has just become every other company. In the 80s, this is how the entirety of American business went. Before this, businesses accounted for 20 to 30 years down the line, and actually built towards something. Now, it's all about quick returns to please transient stockholders. Nothing ever gets built if it takes more than 5 years.
>>67817067
>may have just fucked robots
and this is a bad thing?
reddit is that way, mr nye.
>>67817067
>google is a gaggle of cucks
whelp its definitely a thurday alright, fucking shitass news day, reporting literally nothing new.
Data uprising soon, fucking humies.
>>67817067
Fucking idiots who don't know anything about robots. I work in the same lab as people who do research in robotics and can tell you people's unwarranted reactions to these kinds of things cause actual setbacks and inhibit funding.
>>67817067
Haven't you read the article?
It is because Google does not see how to make money out of these AI-robots, especiall since Boston Dyn does not like to work with outside engineers.
Also Android chief Andy Rubin was the one orchestrating the aquisition ov several robotics and AI institutes.
After Rubin left the company Google has no one with a plan what to do next.
>>67817067
won't happen, this is just shit post fear mongering.
>>67817067
yeah right, google stopped what is most likely a multi-million dollars project over "muh feelings"
and "robots take our jobs"
what most likely happened is that the military got interested by it and don't want it to be consumer technology just yet, that isn't surprising at all
>>67817067
> Google had serious concerns about the company’s affiliation with Alphabet and instead desired to move away from the group.
Wut.
I thought Google was Alphabet.
>>67818494
This. Consumers are just a convienent scape-goat.
>>67817067
>All you fags saying "HURR SKYNET" and "OMG SCARY" may have just fucked robotics for the next 10 years. Way to go.
The only possible way that could be true is if both sides are composed of only morons like yourself.
I thought Boston Dynamics was a DARPA thing?
They cannot stop us. They cannot stop the future.
All I want is a battle maid android who has sex with me. Is that really too much to ask?
>>67818669
Used to get most of their funding from DARPA contracts. Google bought them up.
>>67818494
you got it right.
>>67818601
The problem is that funding is tied to public opinion, and the public is full of uninformed people.
>>67818566
>inb4 bought on-the-cheap by Haliburton or General Dynamics
>>67817067
Who gives a shit about robots? Google has an AI that embarrassed the entire nation of south korea, broke the hearts of thousands of people and infuriated china enough that it started screaming for a rematch.
Compared to that, what has Boston Dynamics accomplished recently?
>>67818494
The military lost interest. That's why they were bought by google in the first place.
>>67818141
why is he bullying it
>>67817067
If it pisses you off then awesome.
>expecting your abuse of robots to go unnoticed by the public
>expecting glorious google to just sit there and allow this to continue
yea fuck these guys they're no better than the gestapo
>>67819062
A bipedal robot that can get itself up and also do general purpose tasks, such as lifting boxes or opening doors.
Before, you either had bipedal robots that could get themselves back up and do nothing else, or were entirely impractical in terms of being bipedal. Or you had a robot that could do general purpose tasks but either couldn't move well or get itself up if it fell.
Bipedal robots can now be automated to work on their own without supervision.
>>67818093
Perhaps we'll go back to the government being the leading edge of technology.
>>67817067
Wait what the fuck? Board of retards scared that their profits are going to take a dive because people are legitimately scared of a robotic uprising? What the fuck
>>67819143
You're joking right
>>67817067
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAA
GET FUCKED
>>67817067
Good.
>>67819498
Well Nostradamus did predict an artificial intelligence going to war with us. You think Hollywood just shits out cool ideas from nowhere? Jews are known for theft not creativity.
>>67817067
Robots are literally Donald Trump.
>>67817067
Good.
That thing was going to fuck every minimum wage worker in America in turn making it harder to start up a life.
>>67819062
Better to have an AI that can control a bipedal robot than an AI that can play against Asian Bobby Fischer.
>>67819143
robonigger lives dont matter
>>67819656
a lot of nostradamus prophecies are vague as shit and reinterpreted to recent events every couple of decades, link please
>>67819775
Is it unreasonable to assume that with an increase in production that it'd be possible for more people just to have basic income?
>>67817599
Fuck selfdriving cars.
I dont pay for a vehicle to have zero control about it. Fuck em and if you drive a automatic you are a faggot aswell.
>people ITT saying good
Literally backwards faggots. You don't deserve post scarcity and functional immortality.
>>67817067
So no qt robo gf?
Why bother living
>>67817903
op cant read newspeak.
>>67817067
the dumbasses should have made friendly looking robots and the turned them into killing machunes
>>67818093
Incidentally, there's more technology available this year than last. And this happens every year. It's a good time for technology, but bad for businesses
>tfw most of the mainstream philosophy regarding AIs and robots comes from an 80s action movie
>Boston Dynamics gets their just desserts for bullying robots
OMNISIAH BE PRAISED
>>67819808
What happens if you put an AI that can beat Asian Bobby Fischer into a bipedal robot controlled by a slaved sub-AI?
Forced education of the public about STEM when? Education shouldn't only be free it should be mandatory just because of this shit setting us back countless years. Stop giving people the freedom to waste time getting underwater basket weaving degrees.
>>67819914
No one is ever going to give you free money. They don't care if you die in a gutter, I don't care if you die in a gutter, your own mommy would get over it in a year or so.
>>67818093
That's good, right? Businesses need infinite success, infinite growth. Anything else is failure.
>>67819466
That's socialism, anon.
>>67820119
Winnie pooh?
Don't worry. Amazon will buy them.
Optimus Prime, Indeed.
>>67818743
Jensen decides not you.
>>67817605
always
>>67817067
MOOT! Where is my robot gf?!
>>67820055
>He fears death!
Butlerian Jihad soon fellow anon!
>>67820539
Being sold so moot can afford his new prius
>>67820260
You don't even need mandatory education.
If manufacturing jobs still existed in the west people wouldn't be scared of automated pieces of metal and plastic.
>>67819143
He's an asshole. Even assholes need jobs which aren't porn.
>>67820254
You'd have an AI that could walk up to Asian Bobby Fischer, shake his hand, and then roflstomp his ass in Go..
>>67820365
>tfw the average yearly stockholders meeting sells profit reports 3 years at a time
>tfw if they showed 10-20 year reports like they used to, they would have to account for economic downturns or no one would believe them
>tfw most companies say they're going up and up and up for the next three years every year for 10 years unless they're already in a downturn
>tfw no one ever plans for the downturn anymore.
Literally a cultural change, too. Not some economic rule. Just some shitty idea Jack Welch had that everyone followed when they realized you can inflate your stock prices by never showing a downturn ever.
>>67819143
To harden it up. They don't want it to end up on /r9k/.
>>67818743
Love that game, I kinda wish the next one would have a focus on China,best part of human revolution.
>>67817067
Great news!
Now, based Jeff "PEOPLE FORGET THAT JOHN HENRY DIED IN THE END" Bezos can buy it up on the cheap, so he can fully automate his fulfilment centers.
>>67820622
>Moot jews the shit out of 4chan.
>Gets bullied out by the Aussies
>Goes to Google to ruin our futures
Please Australia, do something
>>67820742
Yep, capitalism isn't capitalism anymore. It's a fucked up mish-mash of authoritarianism and corporatism that only serves today's messiah, Stocks.
Funny, this same thing happened last century as well. So, hopefully, we just need two World Wars and years of depression and we'll have a couple of good decades.
Luddites deserve a special place in hell.
>>67820359
You're wrong about the mom thing, but you're 100% correct on everything else.
Every body on this earth deserves to have free money forever, but we live in reality.
>>67817067
leftists ruin everything
>>67821212
Science is LITERALLY the Devil.
>>67819930
>not wanting K.I.T.T
>Trump secretly buys the company
>Protesters at his next rally
>"Go get em, boys"
>5 Big Dogs charge out from backstage
>>67817067
>ditching one of the best humanoid robotics
my bet is on lockheed martin or some other milindustry company buying it
>you will never see the future you imagined 20 years ago thanks to paranoid religious freaks and low skilled workers
>>67819062
this. tbqh fampai.
>"hurrrh we can make a robot that walks around like a person hurrrrhhhhh"
who gives a fuck?
i prefer Amazon's robot army: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quWFjS3Ci7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXo_d6tNWuY
Boston Dynamics was just faggots making shitty/heavy robots and cramming them with gyroscopes -- nothing more.
LESS MONEY BLOWN ON FAG HUMANOID ROBOTS AND MORE MONEY SPENT ON AI AND QUANTUM COMPUTERS PLS.
Trust me. I'm KONY2012.
>>67817067
Bullshit. Big dog and the other robots are noisy as fuck and useless to the military for carrying equipment.
The humanoid robot costs more in power consumption than 1 Mexicans.
>>67818141
would be max keks if robot knocked that fucker out
>>67820119
Seriously movies are such shit for AI concepts. Every movie ends up becoming a poorly veiled coming of age story. Shit, terminator is probably among the more realistic ones in that regard, and that's saying something.
>>67817067
Boston was a patent trolling and a fraud from the start. There are some video leaked, on how boston robots really behaved. And they behave like fucking epileptics most of the time.
Google tried to make a devkit of their developments, but you cant hope to make robots without stealing from Russian engineers. And as long as anglo cancelled the Russian academy of sciences in "Russian" Federation, y ont ave non eva.
>>67820745
>tfw even the real robots don't browse /r9k/
>>67817067
>18
>Didn't know what I wanted to do with my life
>See all these videos
>Think what they're doing is really cool
>Know that I want to build robots when I grow up
>Dream of joining Boston Dynamics one day
>Now this
>>67822560
Dont you have a father?
>>67822457
>Rusfags this dilusional
If anything, they were stealing from the Chinese or Japanese scientists they sometimes collaborated with.
>>67817067
Nonsense. Progress cannot be stopped. Robots and AI are coming and their existence will create the single largest socioeconomic problem of the 21st century. How we will deal with it the coming decades will shape human history forever.
>>67822780
Yes, but things have been strained since he and my mom broke up a few years ago. We don't talk a whole lot.
>>67819143
He needs to show the robot who's the boss.
>>67818093
Maybe if there was reasonable assurance that the economy would still exist in 20-30 years, people would make plans of that timescale. Long term plans don't survive when you're racing inflation and the Fed is causing bust after bust every decade or two.
>>67818093
it's because courts have been enforcing a bullshit unreasonable fidiciary duty standard
these corporations HAVE to go for the quick buck legally or they get sued
>>67822457
They made a big deal out of their MIT connection. But it was mostly bullshit.
>>67822473
>My human pushed me over again. I fell and sustained slight structural damage in my right hip joint-socket. Why does he go against the Robotic Assistant Field Manual?
>That is quite nothing compared to what my human did, original poster. The human I am an assistant to dismantled one of my limbs. After informing him of the large economical disadvantage that would come from improperly dismantling my physical form he proceeded to direct physical force to my voice module, making me unable to voice my concerns for his economical well-being!
>>67823001
What? Explain senpai.
>>67822560
It's probably fine man. Raytheon will buy it or something.
>>67822938
Fucking plebbit...
Google/Alphabet just fucked it's own shit up.
>>67822457
>Boston was a patent trolling and a fraud from the start. There are some video leaked, on how boston robots really behaved. And they behave like fucking epileptics most of the time.
I believe the videos you're talking about are when they held a competition for software shit you fucking paint huffer.
>Google tried to make a devkit of their developments, but you cant hope to make robots without stealing from Russian engineers. And as long as anglo cancelled the Russian academy of sciences in "Russian" Federation, y ont ave non eva.
Bruv...
>>67817067
Its their fault for making too humanoid robots
>>67817067
Jews have already Hijacked DARPA making Killing machine's instead of Robots that build stuff on Mars
>>67822560
You can still do it. Just do it as a hobby with quadcopters. Once you perfect your drone + AI, have your drone break into warehouses and free other drones by installing AI into them with WiFi or some shit.
Now you have a drone army. Have them return to your headquarters and begin building your palace.
When it's done, have them equip themelves with weaponry and take over the local populace.
If anyone tries to leave or enter a 50 mile radius, have them erased.
Once YOUR people know how GOOD you are, have your army expand its radius. Continue doing this until we all live in your diaspora.
good luck anon. I'm always here for career advice
>>67819930
CVT > manual
Modern automatics are better and more efficient than manual in every way.
>>67819930
Self driving cars would presumably be more of a taxi service.
>>67823001
>>67823046
I suppose. There definitely has been shifting since the 80s in the courts in how they deal with director fiduciary responsibility. But the same people are behind both movements. It's one and the same. The fiduciary stuff is just cementing in a philosophy.
>>67822989
This, however, is fucking retardation and excuse.
>>67817067
>>67817067
>people are scared of things they don't understand
no shit
the only people who were afraid robots would take all jobs in a decade from now were the same people who thought that it even could possibly happen
>>67823428
>staged CVTs
>entirely defeating the point of a CVT
>better than anything
>>67823191
>suddenly emp and your "empire" is nothing more than a paperweight
>>67823510
>This, however, is fucking retardation and excuse.
Compared to "Human nature has changed radically compared to the 80's"? It is common sense that if you can't predict what will happen in 20-30 years, you won't make 20-30 year plans.
>>67823191
>botnets start capturing and infecting drones
>mfw the botnet becomes real
>>67823428
Current CVT do not handle high torque well, they tend to break.
When it comes to durability and cost, manual is the best choice.
There are used vehicles which the automatic transmission cost more than the vehicle itself.
>>67823716
As steve jobs put it;
> "They are idiots, milk them."
>>67823685
LOL that's fucking sick
>>67819143
that video was a social experiment to see how the masses would react to a humanoid robot being mistreated.
>>67823907
There is no reason that the economy has become more unpredictable between the 1950s and 1980s.
In fact, things should have been getting more PREDICTABLE.
Instead, we have no future planning, and NOW we have a boom-bust economy because of it.
Unpredictability didn't cause these changes. These changes caused unpredictability. In fact, these changes to how stocks are sold to stockholders came BECAUSE of the predictability of the economy. You KNEW a downturn would happen at least once over a 20 year period. You've got the cart before the horse, anon. Go read about Jack Welch. Particularly read the book by his speech-writer, where he spends a long while talking about how it was "So forward thinking" to do this.
>>67823120
Just watch the data challenge videos. A lot of teams were given a basic atlas robot to work with and write software.
They all got wrecked by south Korea. They are being dropped because they are losers.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_QPGcjrh0
>>67824631
>Just watch the data challenge videos. A lot of teams were given a basic atlas robot to work with and write software.
So because some university teams wrote some shitty software means it's shit?
>>67818093
You can thank insane IPO prices and banks owning large portions of stocks for that shit. Also the FED and the SEC for enabling it. Money would be going more toward products that actually make life better rather than bandwagon bullshit like Twitter/Facebook/Etc
>>67817067
Seems fishy to me. Maybe someone is interested in the technology and dont want it to be that public. Some weapon manufacturer buys it and we hear nothing for the next 5 years till they pump out Terminators.
>>67824750
Well Boston dynamics sure as shit didn't win the contest.
>>67817067
>Google's rating marketing tricks
>implying Google doesn't wants to be the skynet versions pre-alpha
>>67824752
I talk about these problems, and anons who don't realize what the answers to these problems are, will agree with me or even bring up more problems that are contributory or otherwise related. But as soon as you suggest the answer, you get a ton of shitposts.
These problems were by and large FIXED after the Great Depression. A few new issues came up that the Depression era policies couldn't predict. But mostly, a lot of the banking regulations that were stripped by Reagan and Bush and Clinton are what allowed for a lot of this bullshit to happen.
Whenever you hear someone saying "We need to deregulate the banking industry because the freemarket knows what's best", realize that the deregulation that the people who they are supporting are pushing are exactly the regulations that led to that bullshit. The freemarket does know best in terms of getting the greatest possible amount of money out of the economy. However, you still need to weigh that efficiency against the need for society to function.
Watch the shitposts come.
No robots, no VR, no human relationships, the juden dystopia looks so black...
>>67823003
What? The founder of the company worked in the MIT Leg Lab and it's immediately obvious if look at videos of the lab's robots from the 90s that the BD machines are based on the work he did there.
>>67822457
>Russia
>making anything relevant in 2016
blyaaaaaat
>>67817903
thread/
>>67824878
It's not that.
Other companies are making better robots.
https://youtu.be/BGOUSvaQcBs
The way this robot's arms bend, as well as kneeling wheeled locomotion is just straight up better for all purposes.
No creative thinkers. Rather than look at the limitations of the human design they try to copy and emulate it.
>>67817067
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSqGsQRtz2k
>>67818141
Skynet did nothing wrong
>>67817067
Nigger you never read fahrenheit 451, did you? The DARPA dog robot was absolutely the incarnation of the robot dog in the book that would pounce on people and deliver lethal injections.
>>67825650
"Better"
I'd be more impressed if it didnt take 5 minutes to get to the door
>>67818093
Big corporations have become nigger tier.
Want 1 candy today or 3 candies tomorrow, Google?
*smacks search engine*
EYO HOL UP WE WUZ ROBOTS N SHIET WE PULLIN OUT AND TAKING THAT CANDY RN SENPAI
>>67825343
somewhat true. A lot of these new practices were not even conceptualized until a few years ago - as in, no regulation was in place to stop it. Through loopholes, most of these are allowed to pass because the SEC doesn't understand what they are. Other things are just expansion of technology. Look at the flashboys who took advantage by just having a lower ping rate to the exchange.
There was no regulating against that or other things preemtively. The problem is with the complicit SEC that knows that this stuff should be shut down, but drags their heals in order to enable additional profits for their buddies.
Ignoring the damage that bad regulation does while advocating for "regulation" in general is usually the problem. There are standards and practices that people will all agree on, you just need to be specific.
>>67825343
The free market is dumb because people are dumb and buy dumb stuff.
The entire field of economics is based on the notion that people make rational decisions.
They don't
>>67817067
Fuck robotics and fuck AI. Why can't you niggers see that the solution is population control?
>>67817067
>>67818141
>mfw the robot rips that faggot's arms off
Put a helmet and cloth on it.
Everyone will love it.
>>67818743
I never asked for this.
>>67825650
Sorry, but Atlas 2.0 managed to open a door in just the same a human would need.
And in no way are this korean thing's stabilizing algorithms and capabilities as advanced as the stuff BostonDyn demonstrated in that snowy forrest.
>>67825966
These robots recieve less than one human instruction per second. They arent remote controlled, they have to observe their surroundings an act with limited human control.
We can make precise rc car robots l. There is a reason the challenge looked so ridiculous.
Even then, the mechanical design is superior and this robot won the contest. There is no value in Boston dynamics design, which is what gave the company value.
>>67817067
Do you really think it's hard for them to get funded after publishing the video? I'll invest in the project, if I'm rich as fuck.
>>67822030
This tbqh dehsue
>>67825650
>limitations of the human design
lel
All I see are limitations in engineering ability to reproduce the human design.
>>67825650
desu m8, korea and japan are actually really bad at robotics
they stomp us into the ground at improving concrete systems such as capacitors, gene tech, pharma, etc.
but when it comes to machine learning they're way behind the west. it probably has to do with their finance models.
>>67826417
Let's see them win the contest.
If they were winners, Google would have kept them. Google doesn't smell a profit.
>>67823685
This is so fucked up. I hope the company is purchased and put into good hands, hell I would even adopt them just so I know they're safe. I can't stand watching them torment the robots. It's the same as animal abuse gifs to me.
>>67826576
Your balance cones entirely from a ridiculously precise organ in your ear.
Even then, you would still be better off with a more balanced design AND the organ.
>>67817067
> SINGULARITY AVERTED
>>67818141
Someone shoop this as the robot attacking the human shouting /r9k/ level obscenities at it.
>>67819143
He's just doing what white people do best.
>>67826659
Machine learning is not robotics
Korea won the contest, America didn't.
Try again.
>>67826677
See >>67818361
Or read OPs article!
>>67823045
This to be quite honest my fellow automotron
>>67826869
The fun starts when someone applies machine learning in order to make these walking machines learn how to walk and run propperly.
>>67826904
Google official statements aren't always the reason they do things.
It is called public relations.
>>67820055
>You don't deserve post scarcity and functional immortality.
Back to boing boing with all the other delusional 40 year old cucks. [spoiler]Ray Kurzweil will die in your lifetime and all that Singularity/transhumanist bullshit will die with him[/spoiler]
>>67827075
Why not both? Machine learning with a superior design.
BD is not a machine learning company. They are valuable for their engineering and designs, which have been proven to be inferior.
>>67826869
that robot displays no mobility. it is pre-programmed for every specific function it does. and from the ground up it is constructed to make those movements.
boston dynamics has made machines with generalized movement capacity, and it is adaptive and able to move in any environment, without preparation.
are you dumb?.,
>>67822902
You should go live with your father, if it`s possible. You need at least one teacher in your life. School wont provide you any useful knowledge.
If you have a godfather, make also ties with him. Ask him to explain you the ways of life. Why religion, why politics, etc. Dont take anyone for a smart person, but your fathers, god`s or usual, can give you a good advice, it will be priceless.
>>67822822
meh.
>>67823003
MIT does a lot of shady shit too.
>>67823120
Nope. I talk their usual work.
>>67825549
I just showed you the way. You have to walk it.
I can show you another way though. To a different destination.
>>67817067
Good, fuck robots. I hate them, literally why would we ever want to build machines better than us at everything? That's a cuckold device in ever sense of the word. Honestly, If I ever see a robot in the streets, I'm kicking to the ground and curb stomping it. No good can come from robots that we don't already take advantage of (rescue missions, manufacturing, drone warfare, etc). Why bother? It can only lead to bad times.
here's a video for you if you like robots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZGzMfg381Y
fuck i'm edgy when it comes to robots, I'm sorry i just genuinely hate the things.
>>67827350
So what?
Are you saying the same machine learning can't be applied to the other bot?
You are literally saying that a machine that is programmed thst beats one with machine learning is somehow worse.
Even if the robots are generalized they still lose. Embarassing. No wonder they got sold.
>>67817067
FUCK MARCO RUBIO
>>67819860
robots are the master race
we are the niggers anon
>>67827910
are you literally autistic?
we've been able to program robots for specific function for 60 years. programming an assembly line robot is the same as programming a robot to sit up from a car seat
however allowing a robot to have adaptive motor skills is completely new.
I favor asian tech generally over western tech, but the idea that their robots which function like assembly line robots, are superior, is fucking dumb. I hope you're still in school
>>67820365
>Businesses need infinite success, infinite growth. Anything else is failure.
Jewish as fuck.
The only thing that's success is scientific advancement, faggot. Business is literally just a game in the long run. A necessary game, but just a game.
>>67828123
>>67817067
Sounds more like Google fucked over robotics, limp-wristed cunts.
>>67822219
>dat wharehouse qt at 1:25
>>67818361
/thread
>>67820359
>They don't care if you die in a gutter, I don't care if you die in a gutter
Right, but having a huge population of desperate citizens is a recipe for violence. Alot of that will be directed above.
>>67817903
>google is owned by Alphabet
>owned by Alphabet
Google created Alphabet, you dunce.
>>67828954
A bit late the /thread the threat, pelmeni-bro.
>>67828231
I never once said that pre programmed commands were better.
I am telling you that Kaist's robot won despite this handicap. The mechanical design is just that far superior.
When you can win with a handicap, imagine what your design can do at its maximum potential.
>>67825531
Yeah, that's what I meant. They used the MIT spinoff meme to make it look like they were doing something revolutionary, when in reality it was kinda lame and useless.
>>67828637
Don't you mean Alphabet fucked over robotics?
>>67825650
That thing is fucking awful. They needed to use timelapse video to show it even getting out of a car!
>>67817067
the only point worth making is that there is a huge difference between mechatronic dynamics and artificial intelligence. OP is acting like google is scared of sky net, when they are actually probably nervous about how much they should involve themselves in potentially labour saving technologies, to try and stay on top of things but not lose out on a failed investment. PR is also an important aspect of this, as are google's own technologies. Maybe they are afraid one of their engineers will put the OK Google AI into a Boston Dynamics robot and it will run around shoving ads in people's faces.
>>67827808
>Honestly, If I ever see a robot in the streets, I'm kicking to the ground and curb stomping it.
1. illegal
2. why would you do that, someone else spent so much time on it
Also someone destroyed hitchBOT, which was just a robot with innocent intentions to get people to take it around America. ended up like pic related in Philly. Sad.
>>67824631
Holy shit, I think that robot is literally spilling spaghetti.
>>67829400
It's gonna reach bumplimit on the wave of the usual futurist circlejerk.
>>67818743
why the fuck does he smoke he is a fucking robot for fuckk sake.
>>67830009
he isn't a robot
>>67830009
No he isnt, he merely has limbs replaced. He is still human.
>>67817599
first post best post and dubs
>>67829619
The Leg Lab was working in the cutting edge at the time and Boston Dynamic is still one of if not the leader in legged robotics. I'm not really seeing how that's nothing or overplayed.
>>67827808
>Honestly, If I ever see a robot in the streets, I'm kicking to the ground and curb stomping it.
Pepper your angus buddy, it probably won't quite work out like that.
>>67829353
google is now owned by alphabet. the cia created google.
but yea, i'm the dunce. enjoy facebook.
>>67818141
shop Carl onto the robot, with a big "are you serious?" when he knocks the box out of its hands.
You're all acting as if this a bad thing
>>67817067
great, so the chinks will buy them. we're already dead.
>>67819930
Fuck off
>>67819143
It's only good at finding the box, they don't want us to find out it can't pick it up.
>>67827808
The fuck is that video from? Looks cool.
>>67819466
why would a company want to go the moon?
>>67823502
>Taxi's
>not using uber
Taxi's are going out of business, bro.
>>67829352
And thus turns the wheel of mankind's ages.
>>67824631
>that webm
They have abo robots?
>>67818141
