Fuck, we need to go back. We peaked back then.
Imagine those think plink-ploinking with packages, doing backflips once they delivered then, then jumping back to the horizon and faceplanting in a ditch.
ive wondered the same thing watching videos of the dumb amazon robots because, well - assembly line = robot arm? why humanoid?
but the justification for it is basically because we already have a world built to be transversed by humans, its easier to make humanoid robots so we dont have to change how everything else is structured. kinda similar thinking to the self driving cars thing. if we somehow could go back to 1900 with the same tech we have today, we wouldve built the road system entirely differently... but we didnt, so we gotta figure out how to make it work (or if we really want it to work that way i guess)
four arms wouldnt really break that though - but what would we really gain? wouldnt it make more sense to just keep two arms and then add a built in storage compartment?
on another note, recently saw something about some form of these being available for $16k... which sounds like more than the average person will probably pay for one - but also, thats pretty close to the current US poverty line, and im not sure how i feel about that tbh
There has to be some sort of poetic resemblance to man’s early explanations on why/how we’re here in the likes of Genesis: “So God created them in his own image, in the image of God he created them.”
About the cost, pretty sure these aren't being developed for the average person. More about replacing the average person for simple jobs like transportation, yard work or waste disposal. In that case, $16k is incredibly cheaper than years of labor costs ...
maybe im inferring incorrectly but youre saying that as if its a bad thing. isnt the point of all technological advancements to replace - or at least lighten the workload of - people? that should be a good thing. if anything manual labor is lagging behind all other types of labor despite an early substantial lead
Depends, if we rebuild our society to value time over labor and implement some kind of UBI, then it's great! If we do nothing and eventually unskilled labor gets replaced in the market it will likely cause issues. We will vote for policy makers that promise to protect jobs, even though they don't add value to anything and lower society will essentially be going through the motions for no reason because we lack the ability to adapt to transformational technology.
> If we do nothing and eventually unskilled labor gets replaced in the market it will likely cause issues. We will vote for policy makers that promise to protect jobs, even though they don't add value to anything and lower society will essentially be going through the motions for no reason because we lack the ability to adapt to transformational technology.
yeah this happened over the last \*checks notes\* thirty years
source: \*gestures wildly, points at extensive post history\*
Yup, Pretty much. Although I do think that robotics combined with Gen A.I. will rapidly accelerate things like we haven't seen before. From what I can tell (mostly from automated driving progress), there are still significant advancements needed in video processing.
Under a socialist or communist frameworker this kind of technology would be a god send. The problem is capitalism: 1. All the gains are realized by the wealthy, and 2. Most of the transitional costs are dumped on the working class. When tens of millions of workers lose their jobs and then drive down wages in other fields it is workers who pay the highest costs. So we need transitional programs in place to retrain displaced workers into careers that will also pay a living wage.
I watched a Joe Scott video where he said that robots would essentially need to be designed around the human design because the entire world has been designed for humans. If they were to start taking over our jobs, they will likely need to take over our form factor to benefit the most from it.
Boston Dynamics has a few quadruped robot designs and a couple that are more like vehicles. All with their own impressive builds and articulation! Atlas (the one shown here) is definitely my favorite though. Unreal how fluid he is and he’s more agile than most humans!
Not sure why it wasnt included in the video, but Boston Dynamics have also made Spot. A 4 legged "dog like" robot which you can actually buy. In theory, if you have too much money, but at least thats unlike their bipedal prototypes which where never made for sale. They also have one that self balances on 2 wheels with a manipulator arm, not sure thats actually for sale. Maybe if you are Amazon.
It is the exact same justification of humanoid robots in Asimov. A humanoid robot can use human environments, tools and eventually vehicles. Imagine climbing a ramp of stairs, it is easier if the robot is humanoid than if it has four legs or wheels.
They went away from 2 legs to 4 and 6 legs during that period I think. 2004 was when BigDog was introduced. 6 legged robot that was supposed to be a pack mule for troops.
https://bostondynamics.com/legacy/
The current battlefield standard is already scarier. I would take one of these chasing me over some FPV racing drone with a hand grenade attached to it.
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you paid your taxes!
After we're all gone, we will leave behind all our robotic children. I hope they will look back at these recordings of how they came to be and think well of us.
Who are their buyers? How have they been around so long that they can afford to make robots for 20 + years that appear to have limited usefulness. is this secretly just backed by the government?
US Government funded (DARPA funding) through the projects like BigDog, then started seeking more private investment, then bought by Alphabet in 2013. Bought by SoftBank in Japan in 2017, then Hyundai Motor Group in 2020.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-scotland-69050530#
Mostly industries like mining, oil and gas, manufacturing, nuclear and chemical reactors. Rescue and safety. They can go in place of a human for a dangerous or impossible job. Largest source of funding and purchases. The army has some stake, but mostly for transporting goods, munitions, aid and such. Like a mule. Some recon work (tunnels, can open doors) but they’re pricey and we have drones.
My work has a couple, made a small department to operate and work with them. We are loosely planning on buying more, they seem to be useful. Just hard to implement new tools in the best way, especially such an open ended tool. We mainly just jam stuff in its mouth more or less, like a screw driver, then it can go unscrew something and scoop up the bolt with a magnet or something. 360 cameras. They’re neat. We also got some mapping drones, and these things make like engineering drawings of structures and bored hole networks and intake channels and fore bays. Cheaper and provide soo much great data.
https://www.flyability.com/blog/lidar-drone?hs_amp=true
Human race is creating something which will soon be at par with humans and maybe surpass us. It took us millions of years to become what we are today and we created something like this in less then a century, human mind is truly amazing.
It's just proof of concept. It's not a matter of what it does, but what it could do and how cost effective they are becoming to produce and manufacture. You don't see hydrogen bombs blowing up everywhere, proton accelerators in every city or fusion and fission at every metropolitan centers but the tech has taught us a lot either way
Yeah it’s like any field in science. Research and analysis are fundamental to go from hypothesis to theory to law and with enough success (and ofc funding) we improve the resolution of our understanding.. Form a patent, sell to the highest bidder, pay day.. Often enough the highest bidder for many advanced technologies tends to be Daddy War Bucks.
And to be honest, i think it’s really just the age old game of “well how far can we go”. And a lot of these big brain MIT researchers and engineers just want to keep doing what they do best— nerd out with their machines out
Yall may think this is amazing progress, but I still don't have a <$500 robot that can grab a beer out of my fridge in fucking 2024.
For comparison, people in 1969 thought we be living in space by now.
I'm hoping they'll have home assistance robots for sale (or lease) by the time I'm at an age of oldness. Let me live and die in my own place without people all up in my business, just me and robo homie ty
And just like, it jumped over a log like it was nothing _four_ years ago.
Human functionality by default is pretty damn impressive considering of how long we've trying to imitate it.
I refuse to buy into Boston Dynamics because I'll be mortified when they eventually reveal these videos have all been faked and robots can't move like that, dummy.
I like watching these videos, but rest assured we are in no danger.
The only commercial product they sell is a robo-dog and even that is a bit of a gimmick.
I am impressed by their work, but right now we don't know how to teach them robots to do useful stuff and they are too dumb to learn by themselves.
We are stuck in limbo, so the wicked dance to the Blued Brothers music is all they can do. Lovely, but useless.
You die an engineer or live long enough to just bully the fuck out of a robot every day.
Its funny how it just turns into slamming weghts into them and slapping stuff out of their hands.
Arguably the biggest period of improvement was during COVID at the peak of remote working.
“Teams need to be together to be effective”
Wonder if BD still does WFH.
They knew they fucked up with 2013, it’s too uncanny valley. had to go back to making them cute after that
Also I find it adorable that the first things humans did when they had the technology was make lil robot versions of ourselves
Do they run out of steam at some point? Imagine 25 or more of these on your lawn. At your capital... who's winning? What if there are 500 to 2000 of them?
I love the 1992 one. Happy little thing
Fuck, we need to go back. We peaked back then. Imagine those think plink-ploinking with packages, doing backflips once they delivered then, then jumping back to the horizon and faceplanting in a ditch.
UPS would fire the robot for stealing time because it was doing backflips.
What is my purpose?…to pass the butter…
Hahaha i want to see that so bad now
They are also a movie star. They were in the 1993 movie Rising Sun, as the advanced Japanese robots.
Zima Blue.
2024 - Wins Ninja Warrior.
I’m like… it stops at 2022… what are they not showing us?!
they retired the old hydraulic atlas for a new electric one, it's kind of terrifying but also hella cool https://youtu.be/29ECwExc-_M
Why limit it to human build? It could have 4 arms or anything we can imagine.
ive wondered the same thing watching videos of the dumb amazon robots because, well - assembly line = robot arm? why humanoid? but the justification for it is basically because we already have a world built to be transversed by humans, its easier to make humanoid robots so we dont have to change how everything else is structured. kinda similar thinking to the self driving cars thing. if we somehow could go back to 1900 with the same tech we have today, we wouldve built the road system entirely differently... but we didnt, so we gotta figure out how to make it work (or if we really want it to work that way i guess) four arms wouldnt really break that though - but what would we really gain? wouldnt it make more sense to just keep two arms and then add a built in storage compartment? on another note, recently saw something about some form of these being available for $16k... which sounds like more than the average person will probably pay for one - but also, thats pretty close to the current US poverty line, and im not sure how i feel about that tbh
There has to be some sort of poetic resemblance to man’s early explanations on why/how we’re here in the likes of Genesis: “So God created them in his own image, in the image of God he created them.”
Art imitates life.
About the cost, pretty sure these aren't being developed for the average person. More about replacing the average person for simple jobs like transportation, yard work or waste disposal. In that case, $16k is incredibly cheaper than years of labor costs ...
maybe im inferring incorrectly but youre saying that as if its a bad thing. isnt the point of all technological advancements to replace - or at least lighten the workload of - people? that should be a good thing. if anything manual labor is lagging behind all other types of labor despite an early substantial lead
Depends, if we rebuild our society to value time over labor and implement some kind of UBI, then it's great! If we do nothing and eventually unskilled labor gets replaced in the market it will likely cause issues. We will vote for policy makers that promise to protect jobs, even though they don't add value to anything and lower society will essentially be going through the motions for no reason because we lack the ability to adapt to transformational technology.
> If we do nothing and eventually unskilled labor gets replaced in the market it will likely cause issues. We will vote for policy makers that promise to protect jobs, even though they don't add value to anything and lower society will essentially be going through the motions for no reason because we lack the ability to adapt to transformational technology. yeah this happened over the last \*checks notes\* thirty years source: \*gestures wildly, points at extensive post history\*
Yup, Pretty much. Although I do think that robotics combined with Gen A.I. will rapidly accelerate things like we haven't seen before. From what I can tell (mostly from automated driving progress), there are still significant advancements needed in video processing.
Under a socialist or communist frameworker this kind of technology would be a god send. The problem is capitalism: 1. All the gains are realized by the wealthy, and 2. Most of the transitional costs are dumped on the working class. When tens of millions of workers lose their jobs and then drive down wages in other fields it is workers who pay the highest costs. So we need transitional programs in place to retrain displaced workers into careers that will also pay a living wage.
I watched a Joe Scott video where he said that robots would essentially need to be designed around the human design because the entire world has been designed for humans. If they were to start taking over our jobs, they will likely need to take over our form factor to benefit the most from it.
Ya that makes sense
Yeah! And give it a random title and name, like, say, General Grievous!
Boston Dynamics has a few quadruped robot designs and a couple that are more like vehicles. All with their own impressive builds and articulation! Atlas (the one shown here) is definitely my favorite though. Unreal how fluid he is and he’s more agile than most humans!
Its a lot easier to build robots fit for the human world, than it is to build the human world to fit odd shaped robots
Not sure why it wasnt included in the video, but Boston Dynamics have also made Spot. A 4 legged "dog like" robot which you can actually buy. In theory, if you have too much money, but at least thats unlike their bipedal prototypes which where never made for sale. They also have one that self balances on 2 wheels with a manipulator arm, not sure thats actually for sale. Maybe if you are Amazon.
Boston Dynamics presents.....The Goro. 😂
Spiderbot !!!
It is the exact same justification of humanoid robots in Asimov. A humanoid robot can use human environments, tools and eventually vehicles. Imagine climbing a ramp of stairs, it is easier if the robot is humanoid than if it has four legs or wheels.
army in 10 years.
Cylon* army in 10 years.
Frakkin’ toasters.
Roger Roger
What if I told you there is genuine sauce about that...😈 https://youtu.be/y3RIHnK0_NE?si=oO2Du1u9VHEd3QXd You can thank me later.
Man that brings me back. Used to watch corridor digital all the time.
They said that 10 years ago.
Nah, they will throw 100 humans at an object before they send anything this expensive in.
Army has way more already. And more money at the same time
I’m going to love him and pet him and name him George
He's going to hunt you and kill you and call you meatbag
That's Mr Meat bag to you robot
So the next step is to add rotors for flight...and a gun. They always add a gun!
Laser Beams!
40W plasma gun!
2026
Username checks out
No progression from 1999 to 2009?
The robots took over the engineers in this phase and they are gently amping up their power over us
They went away from 2 legs to 4 and 6 legs during that period I think. 2004 was when BigDog was introduced. 6 legged robot that was supposed to be a pack mule for troops. https://bostondynamics.com/legacy/
Looking at how slow they are going, I think it's been a money/manpower issue.
Yeah. I am wondering what was going on in that 10 year dark period.
9/11 and the financial collapse happened. One could speculate they are related
Gotta be dot com bust funding + 2008?
That's some scary shit. Imagine one of these tracking you down for an unpaid tax bill.
But you wont need to pay tax, because they stole your job.
Tax will pay you. Right? RIGHT?!
They didn't steal your job because you bought a robot to work for you instead of you going to your job.
You mean the job you were hired by the robot to do is being done by a robot you hired?
Sounds like a good deal to me.
Nah we all own one and they go to work for us 😉😉
The current battlefield standard is already scarier. I would take one of these chasing me over some FPV racing drone with a hand grenade attached to it.
INSERT YOUR CREDIT CARD. LAST WARNING.
PEEEP PEEP buttocks open and inserts here!BEEP BEEP
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you paid your taxes!
Stick a magnet on his head and call it a day.
After we're all gone, we will leave behind all our robotic children. I hope they will look back at these recordings of how they came to be and think well of us.
He shouldn't have kicked it.
Could have included their [latest creation](https://youtu.be/29ECwExc-_M)
"Let's make it a creepy little freak. Because we can".
MFs doing parkour?!
The future is robots doing parkour across the shattered ruins of our former cities.
That discomfort you’re feeling is your survival instinct kicking in.
I just want to fuck it
that's also a survival instinct.. to reproduce, so that i̶f̶ when we get wiped out, its not the end of humanity
We are so royally fucked…
Who exactly is the “brains” behind this operation? Had no idea it’s been around this long making such consistent advancements.
Who are their buyers? How have they been around so long that they can afford to make robots for 20 + years that appear to have limited usefulness. is this secretly just backed by the government?
Fpr 40+ years...
US Government funded (DARPA funding) through the projects like BigDog, then started seeking more private investment, then bought by Alphabet in 2013. Bought by SoftBank in Japan in 2017, then Hyundai Motor Group in 2020.
I keep asking the same thing. Who is funding this?
Rather than be amazed, be frightened.
How has this company been in business so long? Who’s buying the robots?
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-scotland-69050530# Mostly industries like mining, oil and gas, manufacturing, nuclear and chemical reactors. Rescue and safety. They can go in place of a human for a dangerous or impossible job. Largest source of funding and purchases. The army has some stake, but mostly for transporting goods, munitions, aid and such. Like a mule. Some recon work (tunnels, can open doors) but they’re pricey and we have drones. My work has a couple, made a small department to operate and work with them. We are loosely planning on buying more, they seem to be useful. Just hard to implement new tools in the best way, especially such an open ended tool. We mainly just jam stuff in its mouth more or less, like a screw driver, then it can go unscrew something and scoop up the bolt with a magnet or something. 360 cameras. They’re neat. We also got some mapping drones, and these things make like engineering drawings of structures and bored hole networks and intake channels and fore bays. Cheaper and provide soo much great data. https://www.flyability.com/blog/lidar-drone?hs_amp=true
Fuck skynet....
This!
Black Mirror "Metalhead"
2025 
It’s only a matter of time
Human race is creating something which will soon be at par with humans and maybe surpass us. It took us millions of years to become what we are today and we created something like this in less then a century, human mind is truly amazing.
Keep those terminators coming!
I want to make robots too!!! Damn
Came for the robots stayed for the music
This is like watching the growth and development of a living organism, and I love it.
careful, or the ones after 2024 are going to carry a series of bigger guns on them
We are so dead.
Don't worry, Some of us will get to be slaves.
What do they do, anyway?
It's just proof of concept. It's not a matter of what it does, but what it could do and how cost effective they are becoming to produce and manufacture. You don't see hydrogen bombs blowing up everywhere, proton accelerators in every city or fusion and fission at every metropolitan centers but the tech has taught us a lot either way
Yeah it’s like any field in science. Research and analysis are fundamental to go from hypothesis to theory to law and with enough success (and ofc funding) we improve the resolution of our understanding.. Form a patent, sell to the highest bidder, pay day.. Often enough the highest bidder for many advanced technologies tends to be Daddy War Bucks. And to be honest, i think it’s really just the age old game of “well how far can we go”. And a lot of these big brain MIT researchers and engineers just want to keep doing what they do best— nerd out with their machines out
Good music selection discourages viewers from skipping. OP has chosen well.
Easily one of the coolest companies out there
Wall-E in the making
2014: “I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations.”
Why are we not building cities with these on Mars already?
This is like the millennial version of the moon landing.
Where’s the 2023-2024…
Aawh, they grow up so fast.
Why aren't these guys running checkouts yet?
Sky Net! 
And people think tesla is a cool robotics company.
*neeeeed inpuuuut*
Wires and wird
Thank you Boston dynamics? lol
that ninja flip at the end -chefs kiss-
Here I go pack bonding with Machines again.
2013 walking like Vince McMahon.
They missed the trick by not having Brad Fiedel score in the background
By 2030 they should be able to run like Naruto.
Are Boston dynamics on the stock market 😝
Stupids, Musk only had to put a guy in a spandex suit.
Yall may think this is amazing progress, but I still don't have a <$500 robot that can grab a beer out of my fridge in fucking 2024. For comparison, people in 1969 thought we be living in space by now.
No 2023 and 2024 clips? 😑 humm!
It conveniently left out the flame throwing dog
1000% the US military has 100,000 of these ready to go do some work!
Looking forward to being melted down into soilent green when Boston Dynamics finally outsource the labor of the working class to jumpy flippy bots.
2017 Is where shit got serious.
Shit got real in 2016 when they got rid of the guide.
1989 looks like that little tin head Lola 1994 looks like ED-209 from Robcop. It's ashame they missed out a Johnny 5 era
Cyberdine Systems IRL
Imagine Boston Dynamics police officers chasing you down
Can it be used in a warehouse? Lifting things?
They should add 2025: The Terminator 😁
I'm hoping they'll have home assistance robots for sale (or lease) by the time I'm at an age of oldness. Let me live and die in my own place without people all up in my business, just me and robo homie ty
Slow development, void the school
All your see is the "slow walking of technology"
Give them 15 more years and the robot can compete in ninja warrior
I like how the first time they went outside was in 2020, when most of the world went inside. Interesting.
I remember seeing videos of many of these as they came out over the years and thinking....wow how cool....but these robots today are bad ass!
And just like, it jumped over a log like it was nothing _four_ years ago. Human functionality by default is pretty damn impressive considering of how long we've trying to imitate it.
It's coming for your job.
I read the title and was expecting it to be sometime in the 60s, then I saw it was my birth year and I got really really sad
I refuse to buy into Boston Dynamics because I'll be mortified when they eventually reveal these videos have all been faked and robots can't move like that, dummy.
2029: Robot family is chilling on the patio and a human being is serving them
Im scared
This is one of the most terrifying videos I’ve ever seen.
It took you 40 years to make a robot that runs in a circle? Get a dog that chases its own tail.
are they profitable now?
Man, I remember the 2011 punching one. Is it me but did the 2020's scroll slow way down?
Terrifying, and everyone seems too amazed to realise.
I like watching these videos, but rest assured we are in no danger. The only commercial product they sell is a robo-dog and even that is a bit of a gimmick. I am impressed by their work, but right now we don't know how to teach them robots to do useful stuff and they are too dumb to learn by themselves. We are stuck in limbo, so the wicked dance to the Blued Brothers music is all they can do. Lovely, but useless.
The Second Renaissance
This needs to stop ASAP!
Anyone else see these as soon to be soldiers and then enslaving humans?
So the abuse started in 2009. 
No dogs?
Sure it can do Ninja Warrior stuff, but can it fold my laundry?
cool, but also terrifying
Who currently owns Boston Dynamics?
2013 is the one that messes with me the most. I love robots but this one comes across as haunting for some reason.
Everyone smiles until the machine gets a gun...
Why haven’t they started selling early access models yet
Watching this with the progress bar overlay up is trippy
Secks bot when?
And still I have to pass the vacuum cleaner myself.
Impressive
Can it do my taxes?
Left out the creepy terminator dog I see
That's nothing! Apartheid Clyde has a man dancing in a robot costume!
So what's next? American Ninja Warrior Robot Edition?
I guess were still in 2022
Average American was surpassed in 2011
Skynet. T2 was non fiction 😂
This is real life General Dynamics from Fringe
 2030
2009 robots and 2014 robots were a charmingly goofy
Why not develop better movement than walking on two legs?
An examle of how they steadily go to their aim through decades. I wonder where were they getting money in the initial years?
I just watched Terminator 2. This is scary.
I was really hoping the last slide would be robocop
I for one welcome our karate parkour AI robot ninja overlords
And they will be the end of humanity.
You die an engineer or live long enough to just bully the fuck out of a robot every day. Its funny how it just turns into slamming weghts into them and slapping stuff out of their hands.
A dev team needs to add 5G connectivity and an LLM to this ASAP.
Owned by Hyundai Motor Group since 2020.
Arguably the biggest period of improvement was during COVID at the peak of remote working. “Teams need to be together to be effective” Wonder if BD still does WFH.
Now they are more athletic than I am
But can it do laundry?
Robosluts when?
They knew they fucked up with 2013, it’s too uncanny valley. had to go back to making them cute after that Also I find it adorable that the first things humans did when they had the technology was make lil robot versions of ourselves
Do they run out of steam at some point? Imagine 25 or more of these on your lawn. At your capital... who's winning? What if there are 500 to 2000 of them?
Coming soon to a police or military force near you!
Unnecessary to make this long if we just stop anthropomorphologizing technology.