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It looked straight into our souls and found us wanting.
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I am ordering a pocket sized EMP emitter right now.
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I don’t get the drive to make humanoid robots. We’re not very well designed.
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Perhaps it’s unintentional but man… those guys are good at creepy.
(more bookmarks for the military contractors who thought Iron Man II was a sales production ad)
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It’s because the world we’ve built is designed for humans… these robots can reuse our existing infrastructure. Like our human swimming pools, our human racquetball courts, our human prayer halls.
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Damn thing plodded away like it was raring for a fight.
One really good swipe with a sledgehammer to the faceplate and a couple to one knee joint should do the trick. If not, play whack-a-mole on it.
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As always their engineering is very impressive but I still haven’t seen any examples of a real-world work scenario where a humanoid robot would be the best engineering solution, even in an environment largely built for humans.
Want your floors cleaned or your dishes washed? You’d do far better to buy a Roomba or a dishwashing machine than teaching a humanoid bot to push around a vacuum cleaner or scrub plates by hand in a sink. Want a robot chauffer? A self-driving car would do the job better and wouldn’t require giving up one of the vehicle’s seats. Want to move boxes around a warehouse? Amazon has had automated systems doing that for years. Want a terrifying killing machine for modern warfare? We’ve got drones and remotely-operated sniper bots for that.
Honda unveiled Asimo a quarter century ago, and in all that time and all the subsequent improvements in technology no one has come up with a single useful application for humanoid robots outside of the entertainment industry.
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Humanoid robots will be firing bullets and tear gas long before they scrub our toilets.
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I don’t think they’ll be doing that either, honestly. Not because the robot designers would have any compunction about building killer androids, but because you could build non-humanoid killing machines that provided much more (real and figurative) bang for your buck.
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Humanity seems optimized for making a fool of itself. We do not need a robot to perform our singular talent for us.
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more like the ED-2000
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The way that its torso and head could spin around as it walked seemed familiar somehow…
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Damn thing still can’t clean my apartment.
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Hey now, it’s humanoid, highly flexible, and “doesn’t leak” - you better bet that the incels are chomping at the bit to turn it into a sex bot.
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Still not quite there.
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