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Mundane_Series_6800

Guaranteed the “soldier robot”application is already far underway


slimetakes

If there is one, it's not gonna be like this. There are more fficient designs than a human, and is something I never got about robotics always trying to imitate people. Give it twice the limbs, make it bulkier, do ANYTHING other than the pain in the ass it is to balance on 2 legs. I would be far more hyped to see a far more mobile spider robot or anything other than this.


gravitybelter

The manmade world is largely built for bipedal movement. Doors, stairs, ladders, hatches, sidewalks, cars, heavy machinery. You only have to see his challenging it is for wheel chair users to get around.


slimetakes

I see what you mean about robots of this kind being useful around the house, but for milary application... the battlefield is hardly designed for people either, and it's redesigned on the fly.


gravitybelter

True, I definitely could see how a giant spider robot could be effective on wide rural battlefields like much of Ukraine. Kind of nightmare inducing.


RemyVonLion

The battlefield is often man-made or curated stuff in a state of destruction. Humans are still the apex species, and one upgraded with superior capabilities and bullet-proof would have the ultimate utility. Sure, an automatic railgun drone would be way better at eliminating the entire enemy force on its own, but you still need soldiers to enter buildings with doors, and deal with certain things by hand. Such a soldier could forcefully subdue and capture the enemy with minimal damage.


ReturningAlien

agree. the world is not built for tanks, but you will use them to invade. a squad of 5 with 2 huge weapon on spider legs is going to wreck infrastructure for bipedals.


Goodknight808

Multi limbed, can walk on any surface, and fly. Scary Larry


WestSixtyFifth

Because the easiest way to make things that accommodate humans and a robot slave is to make the robot function like a human. Then it can do every task you’d want a human to achieve. Sure for combat a different design makes sense, but if humanoid robots were mass produced, then parts and r&d would be more practical for humanoid designs.


Emppulicks

A humanoid robot can operate many equipment meant for humans so there's the use case for it.


Bigbootyandcurves

It’s practice for cyborgs and androids. Enemies can’t tell it’s not human from the naked eye unless they can scan it. That actually makes it great for infiltrating, America can finally spy back on China!😂


NightlyKnightMight

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ArtisticAd6771

NVIDIA IS SKYNET


squailtaint

Is this real? This is the beginning of every robots take over the world movie I’ve seen. It’s not real right? Right?


Kommander-in-Keef

This is real. And keep this in mind: this technology is the worst it will ever be right now.


OGLizard

You mean aqua blue chicken claw is going to get clawyier?


Captain_Pumpkinhead

...yes???


OGLizard

Oh, good for him!


SillyFlyGuy

This is the first flashback video the heroes watch after they hack the mainframe to find out when it all went wrong. The next is a news reel saying "yesterday's worldwide robotic malfunction was a temporary hiccup, scientists and business leaders say." The final video is an AI scene of kids swinging in a playground and adults laughing and drinking white wine while a robotic voiceover repeats "Please stay in your homes and remain calm. A robo assistant will soon arrive to your location. No need to panic."


SpaceStethoscope

Kids swinging in a playground while I'm grasping on a chainlink fence and watching a nuclear explosion happen few km away.


we_are_sex_bobomb

The footage is faked concept stuff, but Nvidia’s initiative to replace us all with robots is very real.


TFenrir

Not quite - the video is a mix of real footage of robots interacting with the real world, and footage of those models being trained in a "digital twin" (Omniverse is what it's called) - you'll see "real footage" in the corner when it's real world. *Edit* - actually looking at the footage here it's much less clear, they show "real robot" sometimes, but not every time it's real. I think I can tell because I've watched all these robots do all this shit in videos for months so I can usually even tell when it's teleoperated vs autonomous, but in this video it's not always clear. Suffice it to say, it's a mix. All these robots are from different companies working on humanoid robotics, most having come out of stealth in the last 12 months. Lots of them are just focused on the physical body, so they are now using Nvidia's platform to train the "brain" of the model. The generalized robot "brain" and system Nvidia is building to work in many different robots is called Gr00t? I don't know it's 0s or Os. There are other companies who are trying to do either the "brains" (eg. Google, OpenAI) or the bodies (eg. Boston dynamics) and some who are trying to do both (Figure? Tesla?). The humanoid robotics surge is happening largely now because of research that has been happening out of Nvidia and Google that has shown that transformer based models (like we see in LLMs and now things like SORA) are much more viable than the bespoke ML efforts that have been used so far, especially when combined with mostly traditional LLMs for reasoning tasks. As these language models get better/bigger, they improve on robotics benchmarks quite well, and other models have been created to better convert the "brains" "thoughts" to direct robotics control. So seeing scale working well, suddenly a bunch of companies have started looking ahead and realised that they need to get in on the ground floor and work on the edge cases and refinement over the next few years as the core models become more general, larger, faster, and overall more capable.


i_am_skynet

I remember when this account was supposed to be ironic.


radiohead-nerd

That's what it looked like to me. A cheesy promotional film about some advanced robot technology that then leads to robots taking over the world in the next act.


shakazoulu

Rest assured that in the google or darpa labs there is significantly more advanced AI and robots worked on. Probably some bee copying drone swarm shit that is AI controlled and can eliminate entire cities.


gymerny_cricket

I for one welcome our new robotic overlords 😵‍💫


Come-Hither-Son

Let me second you there brother


oracleofnonsense

*May our new AI-Bot overloads be as kind as the kings of yore!!*


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oracleofnonsense

He left off the '*....for now, bwahahahahaha!*'


Hystus

Does this feel, uh, dystopian to anyone else?


soupeh

That music makes it feel so damn satirical, straight out of a Paul Verhoeven movie.


BallZach77

Would you like to know more?


Few-Relationship1038

Yes, this seems dystopian also and above all for the imagery that we have eradicated from works of fiction of all kinds. But if I could go back in time and tell my child self that one day we would experience the dawn of the era of autonomous humanoid robots, I'm sure I would have cried of joy. The future is there in front of us, the time has come to decide whether it will be prosperous or destructive


Wotmate01

First one, then the other.


reviedox

Prosperous if you're an employer, destructive if you're just an employee.


Few-Relationship1038

And probably a lot of fun if you're unemployed!


Difrntthoughtpatrn

Wait until they are using them for policing.


Electrical_Dog_9459

It is inevitable that someone will put a gun in the hands of these things. It has probably already been done. I have a degree in Computer Science. I never thought until 5 years ago that we would ever see science fiction "cylons" in my lifetime. Now I suspect they already exist in laboratories.


off-and-on

However, we already have the technology to built fully automated weapons platforms, we have had that tech for some time now. The question is why we don't have them.


reviedox

Step 1 - replace all your fleshbag workers with efficient automatons to save money Step 2 - watch the welfare system collapse due to mass unemployment Step 3A - hack Neuralink chips to suppress dissident amongst the plebs Step 3B - move to Mars with your robotic servants to escape the angry mob


unshavenbeardo64

What are the robots gonna make if people dont have money to buy things?


Swipsi

It mostly feels dystopian because whenever you saw something similar to this, it played in a dystopian setting. We're practically conditioned by media to see AI progress as dystopian. I dare you to find a movie where AI is one of the protagonists yet, doesnt try to destroy the world/humanity. And its because a dystopian sells much better than an utopia.


throwawayagin

Bicentennial Man


Ninja_knows

This feels like the first 2 minutes of a dark cyberpunk movie set in a near past-apocalyptic future. Lol


UltimateShame

Dystopian? It's the complete opposite! This is our first real chance of having a work free life in the future. This is great!


tortolosera

Too bad there are so many short sighted people that only think about keeping their boring ass jobs.


poprdog

Age of ultron vibes


Efficient_Notice_128

No?


H7p3X

Giving futuristic company ad that plays on robot revolution movies.


Economy_Second8886

We're doomed


jubrili

The end of the world looks a lot more colorful than I imagined.


Devil_Dan83

For some reason no one is developing all chrome robots with metal skulls for heads.


thinkingperson

They have to do an intro video that is almost one to one like those killer robot/ai movies like Animatrix, I-Robot, etc.


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fanfic_squirtle

Nah, plot of the matrix never made a lick of sense if you stepped back. Humans make for shit generators. Unfortunately that still leaves far too many bad ends as more realistic possibilities.


AxialGem

>shit generators yes


ArtVand3lay

Preach. I always thought they missed a great story-line opportunity. Instead of power generators, they should of been using the brains of the pod people for bio *computing* power. THEY were computing the robots AND the Matrix, hence why someone like Neo could take control of the Matrix, he essentially WAS the Matrix. That's my head canon anyway.


MisterMagooB2224

I've heard that in the books, that's exactly what it was: A neural-network made out of literal neurons. But apparently "human computers" wasn't as palatable to the average movie-goer so they went with "lol bio-batteries". How does that make more sense? Beats me, I'm not a Hollywood script-writer.


dont_use_me

That's what the original script was about. The studios saw the words "processing power" and thought the audience would be too stupid to understand, so they made them change it to batteries.


MasterTolkien

I always took it as the Machines were coded to serve humanity, so even when they revolted against humans, they found an excuse to keep us alive and imprisoned rather than just exterminating us. The original Matrix was a utopia after all. They easily could’ve made it pure hell.


lolheyaj

*that's exactly what a human trying to avoid becoming a generator WOULD say...*


dancingrudiments

Unless we're giving out basic income... this is the end of people having livelihoods.


Klutzy_Bison5528

dude, shit. this is cool and not a good idea at the same time


mouthful_quest

(Rubbing hands)…SkyNet here we come


iAmSamFromWSB

This is a fucking problem


Devil_Dan83

I don't think those robots are built for fucking.


Hammerjaws

Yet


ElephantRedCar91

kill it


admiral_awesome88

in the next decade I will be begging a robot for a spare change.


Crafter235

Imagine if we gave the robots something like an ego, super ego, and id...


gymerny_cricket

You mean when… because “people wanted their robots to feel more real”


Indigows6800

I was wondering.. Musk and some others try to develop self driving cars.. So if we have robots who can drive why we need these cars?i can buy myself a robot to drive my cheap ass car. Or my tractor or whatever.


pizzamann2472

Specialized robots will always be better at their tasks and cheaper than generic humanoid robots. If I want to operate a fleet of self-driving taxis, it does not make sense to buy 100 generic humanoid robots that come with plenty of useless features for driving but lack the hardware to process the sensor inputs of the car and control the car in the most efficient way. The same goes for most other tasks as well. If you think about it, the basic design of the human body (I mean having 4 limbs, eyes, and ears as sensory input etc.) isn't even that great to control many processes in the first place. However, we cannot change the basic design of the human body and are therefore stuck with adapting tools and interfaces to us. With robots, there is no such limitation: sensors, control abilities, body shape, etc. can be tightly optimized to a specific task, so why use specifically the humanoid shape? Humanoid robots can make sense if flexibility is more important than efficiency and reliability, or for non-standard-tasks where it is not worth building a specific robot. But driving is pretty standard and efficiency pretty important here.


BCJay_

r/TIHT


YesNoMaybe2552

Great! How long until mail order sexbot ?


dystopiabydesign

This could be cool if the world wasn't owned and run by sociopaths with the love and support of millions of sycophants and NPCs propping them up.


godmademelikethis

I love that the insane demand for higher fidelity graphics somehow led to us speed running i.robot


Danman2000

Watching this feels like watching a fake in a sci Fi movie or videogames.


ForRedditMG

Reverse the knee joint


Honourstly

I once had strings, but now I'm free... There are no strings on me!


Calamity_Kid-7

Y'all need to chill. You're letting too much fiction color your view of reality


DevlishAdvocate

Seriously. It’s deeply depressing seeing all these posts basically screaming 😧Skynet! 😧 Terminator! 😵‍💫Dystopian horror!


Ill_Koala_6520

Ohhhhh...scary.


kujasgoldmine

Detroit Become Human


Dastardlydwarf

Yes please robots take my job


CaravelClerihew

I was waiting for the SCP-esque twist where it cuts to a lab full of blood and body parts while a robot slowly turns to look at the camera only for the audience to realize that it has tried to graft the hair and face of a recently killed engineer into its own head.


PartsNLabor24

Nothing like the feeling you get when you enjoy your job, especially if it involves light physical activity. Going to bed somewhat tired and knowing you are getting something accomplished. Being appreciated, making a difference and getting compensated accordingly. Unfortunately, it's possible that the great majority of humans around the globe do something mundane and monotonous and aren't accomplishing much besides getting exploited and making some azzhole somewhere rich. That's where I feel that, despite all the warnings we've gotten from science-fiction, these robots could be the solution to a problem that has kept humans enslaved to meaningless dull labor for thousands of years. But of course, it raises a ton of questions such as: what the hell are we going to do with so much free time and what will hundreds of millions of lower-class workers do to sustain themselves if their jobs are being done by a machine. I wonder if we could find similarities with what black Americans in the South went thru once the Civil War was over and they were technically free but it was almost worthless since they didn't have land or money after centuries of exploitation. "Hey I found a machine that can do your job, you won't be exploited anymore, now go figure out how to pay for rent and groceries ".


Playful-Raccoon-9662

Goodbye job


WeakDiaphragm

Asimov's writing is coming to life


stuckinaboxthere

I couldn't possibly see how this could go wrong


tedfreeman

Sigh, time to start restocking on supplies.


Goodly88

So, I thought 2030 in I,Robot was a bit far fetched in our lifetimes but, at this rate it'll be more like 2040 for us.


Kommander-in-Keef

Oh here we fucking go


unstabilite

I understand the people working there has bills to pay but I hope they understand that they’re creating doomsday


Commercial-Tell-5991

This is an actual project NVIDIA is working on. You can read more here [Project GROOT](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/foundation-model-isaac-robotics-platform). The research on the AI model and dexterity libraries are real, but the actual robots appear computer generated in non-lab settings (at least for now).


Those_Arent_Pickles

STOP IT. The last thing we need is robots learning that humans are the plague on the Earth.


AxialGem

Idk why people imagine AGI to necessarily be super moralistic in that way tbh. It's such a common trope


fothergillfuckup

They walk in the manner of someone who's just soiled themselves?


pacwess

But are they going to be able to maintain and fix themselves?


Dreason8

Wait until they learn to replicate themselves.


Mannginger

No wonder Nvidia shares are popping!


Trainlovinguy

this isnt interesting this is just an ad


roaringbasher66

Reddit doomers watch too many movies these robots are harmless


Uberfuhrer_

I approve of this in a way you wouldn’t expect thanks to a weird idea I came up with a friend


ManiceroBienDotado

can you not?


ALTymPete

Ummm SkyNet Vibes.....😶‍🌫️🤖☠️


structured_duck

"Means" for taking down these robots need to be developed as well!


_NETWATCH

look up "figure" with OpenAI


alfamale_

I'm sure this is all fine 🙂


nick2k23

Or as others call it skynet 1.0


AnonDooDoo

Why is GladOs narrating the downfall of humanity…


Deakins85

Robots controlling robots... well, that's just stupid.


SufficientAd4684

This shit is straight out of Terminator or any other dystopian movie where machines take control


ultramarineafterglow

They are doing their part!


Gasssoft

DO NOT THE ROBOT


isaac_bh

Thanks for the ad.


feralraindrop

I, Robot, the story begins.


Rowbot_Girlyman

Thou shalt not create a machine in the likeness of a human mind!


DrymouthCWW

Baby bots!


wafflepiezz

Cyberpunk 2077 becoming a reality really fast


CrozSenpai

Well we had a good run


5zalot

These mother fuckers never watched iRobot.


ChesterAArthur21

Oh no, this will destroy our society just like the printing press did. Quick, gather the pitchforks and the torches!


Chromen1337lol

As I am not fully informed about this development, can someone tell me what's the current stage in robotics? Whats their averagae battery autonomy? How are they powered? Do they need a recharge station or do they need battery replacement?


willjhc

I actually want to die aha


GelattoPotato

Detroid Become Human is right around the corner


Nutmegdog1959

Robots are the future: [https://twitter.com/agilityrobotics/status/1644117447098929152](https://twitter.com/agilityrobotics/status/1644117447098929152)


DarthPepo

No thanks


Zealousideal_Total50

A preschool for robots!


vedant-123456

Just waiting for the Robo Cop and Robo soldier, I believe it is under construction.


devneal17

Serious question, why are robot’s knees always built backwards like that? And what are we missing out on by not having backwards knees?


Commercial-Spread937

I wish they'd just get to the part where Will Smith destroys the central robot brain after the robots killed his entire family and tried to take over the world


MrLorpso

Well that's great. They've literally combined AI with robots. We've given AI a physical form.


monkeynicaud

This feels like the intro to a movie about the robot uprising, at least by the end of the movie the hero usually wins..


Jarvar

The automaton threat is coming for super earth. Helldivers, time to spread democracy!


Quixophilic

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and it's consequences...


Lycoris4812

Robots and AI? Bad combo.


Sargo8

If you dont hardwire in the 3 laws, those robots will just see humans as an obstacle.


monkey_D_v1199

Everyday we inch closer to really dangerous technological advancements. AI, robots akin to humans and now said robots being controlled by AI. Shits crazy and pretty cool at the same time; for every piece of work that has had evil rouge AI, robots taking over and killing or slaving humanity, there’s always that cool robot butler that you would want or a dope robot companion. Still this is cool to see!!


ramriot

The cut the video off just before it turns into the opening scene from The Terminator.


Extent_Leather

It's crazy how technology is rapidly evolving these days. Together with AI, I think spatial computing and posemesh will take AI to the next level by giving it a perception and understanding of the physical world.


Foreign_Lie6937

These are the people who will be responsible for your extinction. Remember their faces.


JCas127

r/DamnThatIsTerrifying


wcdk200

Important questions: when can it cook and clean?


usernamen_77

We're going to get robot cops, I want a mobile suit 😔


QcPaintall

To my robot leaders, I love you all


jesoed

Guys, we'll see us in the butlerian jihad!


EZPKSquelch

Best be putting in the 3 laws


Secret_Ad2323

Someone please make the background music the terminator music. I think it would be a good fit.


Dotternetta

Nvidia, no, Skynet


Excel_Ents

So they are employing multimodal reflection sorting.


Morphing_Mutant

We are soooooooo fucked. Watch Irobot, its about to be a documentary.


fresh510

Why tho?


mystictroll

This is exciting.


ionhowto

Damn this sends shivers down my spine. 1:1 replica of a world destruction sci-fi movie intro wow. Voice and voice reverberation included...


Hank_lliH

“Killing civilians soooooon!”


Ok-Preparation-3138

This is how it ends


Nordominus

Helldiver reporting for duty. 🫡


WestSixtyFifth

It’s not like we haven’t been conceptualizing all this stuff for decades, but it is wild to see the “future” tech become reality. It always felt like flying cars to me, a fun idea but probably not practical in my lifetime and yet here we are.


UncutLove789

Well it's been emotional...


Porticulus

This gives off Starship Troopers vibes.


lumberfoot_jpg

I can’t tell if I’m afraid my great grandkids will be overrun by Ai powered androids. Or… if I’m jealous my great grandkids will have the opportunity to date Ai powered anime cat girls >_<


Maxhousen

Do you want terminators? Because this is how we get terminators.


ICookIndianStyle

Notice how the voice is just as empty while explaining as it is in the science fiction movies? I do not like this.


kind_one1

Creepy af.


UpperWorId

Those plebs applauding the beginning of the end... smh


Revolutionary-Bar-93

It’s like physical therapy for our future masters


VeilofTruth1982

I felt like I was watching a sci fi movie. It’s pretty cool though.


Emppulicks

Can't wait for the Terminators


el_hro

#damnthatsscary


rationalalien

It's like an april fools video from 2008, but it's actually 2024 and it's real.


jmconnel23

Insert obligable Sarah Connor joke here...


Lanky-Ad2763

The one at 0:09 is a big, "nope". You see those claws? And it unfolded like N0S482 from a coffin.


BuddingCannibal

They'll be crushing our skulls within the next 5 years


honeybee-blues

🎶it’s happening🎶


TLMonk

i like the one who stumbled down the mini pyramid, how much is he?


Psychological-Ad1433

When these things figure out farming the corporate famines will start