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Chinese robot tries to dance like Michael Jackson (i.imgur.com)
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[–] 46 points 5 months ago (13 children)

So many people are talking and so focused on AI that everyone's been missing the robotics.

My husband has been showing me videos every week of robots from Japan, China, etc. Robotics has advanced insanely fast last few years.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    Meh. Hard to feel excited about it. Humanoid robotics absolutely will not be beneficial for humanity in the current socioeconomic system. Best case is it spies on us and subverts democracy, worst case is it skullfucks people in impoverished nations to steal their land and resources.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Ultimately, no it won't be beneficial but late stage capitalism is going to fuck us one way or the other with or without robotics.

    Its still coming and where its at now is undeniably impressive.

    The most beneficial uses on a more micro level however which I agree with are jobs that are dangerous to humans. I mean we have used robots for space and deep sea exploration forever (super neat drive).

    Warehouse jobs are also dangerous due to risks of acute and chronic injuries. Humanoid robots are 100% going to make it there. In an ideal world our future would be Star Trek but to your point it will be more like Alien universe.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Are humanoid robots really the best choice? Seems like robot forklifts (exist), robot pallet jacks (exist), and some kind of box grabber arm would be more efficient. I've always thought that humanoid robots were being worked on just for thr challenge and the fun/spectacle factor (and I guess investor hype in the case of Musk).

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Humanoid robots are great at operating in existing environments that were built for humans. Like, your house or an office or our streets.

    Purpose built robots are almost always better at specific tasks, but if you want to drop in a robot in an existing environment or have it interact with existing products and equipment, humanoid is the way to go.

    Amazon for example has TONS of purpose built robots that are not humanoid, but their entire warehouse system was designed from the ground up for them.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I'm more worried about the global backslide into authoritarianism than capitalism.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    I'm more worried about the crater than the asteroid

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    That implies that only capitalism leads to a global backslide into authoritarianism which is historically very inaccurate. The rise of capitalism took power away from the crowns and the nobility like no other system ever has.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Sees an asteroid hurtling toward earth

    don't worry about that, the real problem is craters, which is caused by unicorns

    Asteroid getting closer

    Fucking unicorns creating disinfo about the cause of craters. Asteroids are indifferent and couldn't be responsible for catastrophe, proving craters are caused by unicorns

    Society becomes divided into two camps, an asteroid cult and people trying to stop the asteroid

    the asteroid cult are a bunch of loons but the anti asteroid people are falling for unicorn propaganda, therefore are themselves morally equivalent to malicious unicorns

    Asteroid hits earth, leaving a giant crater

    Fucking anti asteroiders and their shitty craters.

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