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[–] HorikBrun@kbin.earth 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And NOW you can honetly say that, yes, everybody was indeed kung fu fighting.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everything was kung fu fighting!

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[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile teslabots can't even pour a drink

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The first ever teslabot demonstration was an actual human in a costume, pretending to be a robot...

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 points 2 months ago

China out here with scripted robots that while not super useful can show off the limits of our technology in impressive ways.

America. Back to slavery but with a metal exterior

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[–] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

That's extremely impressive. As soon as these can do this stuff on random surfaces and with spatial awareness then we are probably past the event horizon for some significant, scary and futuristic shit.

[–] aeiou@piefed.social 24 points 2 months ago

Mechatronics engineers and scifi nerds from the 90s would salivate over what's on offer in robotics today.

[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Once receiving the signal Chinese household robots sold to the west gonna do project atomic heart, by kicking you in the nuts.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 months ago (11 children)
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[–] fum@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We really do live in the cyber punk dystopia predicted. It's just way less neon lights.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

only if you live in upper north america; western europe; or australia. lol

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's damn true. All of SE Asia is basically a neon (*actually LED) vortex

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

Sigh... I mean... I tried. And while there is much to be said for it, there is a lot to be said against it too. It's kind of a win some lose some deal. Depends on where you live. If I was in the USA I'd fuck right off to basically anywhere, and SE Asia wouldn't be a bad bet. Thing is, they don't just accept people willy nilly. Unless you want to endure a permanent border hopping enema, you need a work visa, student visa, or retirement visa, and those all come with their own hurdles.

Good luck tho, I can def vibe with the sentiment.

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[–] TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now that's what i call a flex of your technological power between tradition and modernity. Fantastic performance.

Random thought, I know it's still better to not have wars at all, but future wars would be nicer and more fair if losing meant receiving a knock-out kick in yo nuts from a martial art master robot instead of being killed by random boring drones.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Very nice

Also very scary as this is just the next step after what Boston dynamics has already shown. You can bet your ass that military leaders are jerking off over these things

Granted, their battery life will still be Abysmal but that too is being resolved over time.

I'm not afraid of self aware terminators. I'm afraid of sad dictators with tiny penis syndrome getting access to shit like this in, say, a decade from now.

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Looks nice. Not excited to be fighting to the death on some random hill surrounded by a thousand of these.

[–] Phunter@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, you're much more likely to be instantly annihilated by a tiny suicide drone.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Can i have it arrive before my next rent payment?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They probably won't splurge for the emp proof coating.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

We in the west don't even remember what a society can achieve without the bloodsucking billionaire parasites and shareholders siphoning off wealth. For us that would be "splurging", for less insane societies it would be common sense.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Truly impressive. Either I have been alive for a long time or the rate of progress is accelerating. I thought we were decades away from this.

[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah I treated all of the stated limitations of MIT robotics projects for the next 25 years as universal & wasn't aware of the progress in manufacturing + logistics until say 2019

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago

Whoa what the hell, that's insane!

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (13 children)
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[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

Better at humans at fighting AND better at break dancing too!

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

I should watch Real Steel again.

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