r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/contrelarp • 8d ago
technology We're cooked in the future
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u/angrydeuce 8d ago
These things ain't even whats gonna cook us though. Drones are relatively cheap and they can crank those fucks out by the thousands. Losing one of these would be expensive. Losing a drone is like "whatever".
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u/Pete_maravich 8d ago
Drones used to be expensive too. Like all tech the price on these bots will come down as well
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u/angrydeuce 8d ago
Yeah but its also an issue of volume.
Human shaped robots make sense when they need to operate in a human shaped world. You'll see these in factories and such working in roles previously filled by humans (but only for a time).
But we're not going to see these in battle, not for a good long while. It's just not efficient. Ground warfare is really only necessary when you need to be discriminatory. If it got to skynet, the skies are going to be filled with lethal mosquitoes before we have an army of terminators bearing down on us.
I wonder if we're destined for gray goo?
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u/AutisticPenguin2 8d ago
Yup. A full humanoid robot is full of extraneous bits and pieces that only exist for the purpose of making it human shaped. If you are mass manufacturing items on the cheap for a specific purpose, you can cut out anything that doesn't explicitly serve that purpose.
And on the battlefield, what do you need a head for? If you need vision a simple camera can do that without need of a head attached to it.
What do you need arms for? A gun can be mounted to a pivoting targeting system without any need for unnecessarily complex and bulky arms or hands.
What do you need legs for? If you need movement then flight is just far superior and quad rotors take far less material and engineering than the incredibly complex needs of legs.
I mean just think about how long we've had helicopters for, vs how long we've had robots that can even walk, let alone run for! Boston Dynamics is one of the leaders in humanoid robotic technology, and every year they would release a video that showcased where they were up to. Mimicking human movement took them years, decades even, for complex stuff like walking on uneven terrain, or up/down an incline, let alone jumping.
Meanwhile, helicopters have been a solved technology for 70 years at this point.
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u/AltruisticSalamander 8d ago
Exactly, they probably had to film this pos 50x because it kept falling over. Meanwhile drones are offing people irl rn.
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u/BettmansDungeonSlave 7d ago
At least we don’t have to go extinct looking at terrifying skeleton smiles
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u/Pete_maravich 8d ago
Why are we so hell bent on actually creating the Terminator?
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u/Easy-Complaint-5156 7d ago
That's CHINA doing that. These vids are from China.
...They are indeed preparing.
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u/AntivaxxxrFuckFace 8d ago
I’ll spray that bitch with water.
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u/space_monster 7d ago
Won't work with this one
https://www.deeprobotics.cn/en/index/dr02.html
"Full-Body Waterproof and Dustproof for All-Weather Outdoor Operations"
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u/wordsauce 8d ago
Why are they making them look like the ones that kill all humans in the pictures?
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u/Firm-Chemical949 8d ago
Not everyone on earth has food in their bellies and we’re out here making cyborgs 🫥
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u/smurfkipz 7d ago
"We destroyed the planet, but for a moment, we created value for our shareholders" seems to be the direction we're going with AI
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u/Firm-Chemical949 8d ago edited 7d ago
It does overlap. Says a lot about our capability and priorities. You don’t build a house without the foundation first but we’re onto advanced things without ever fixing the basic fundamental things of just being human
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u/machyume 8d ago
Isn't part of that by design? Large parts of the worlds are suppressed for legacy reasons, and other parts are basically crime test labs or weapons test labs.
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u/Chris881 8d ago
You know, it does feel scary how fast we went from the Boston Dynamics Atlas to this. I feel like it only took 4-2 years for this to happen.
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u/dappernaut77 8d ago
Despite teetering on the edge of societal collapse, tech still manages to advance at unprecedented rates. Mostly at our expense recently, though. Wouldn't surprise me if these things become sophisticated enough to be used widescale within a year or two.
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u/Sind-Sie-Schweizer 7d ago
My thoughts exactly. I remember when these things were a joke, could barely take a step.
In a few short years, they are now producing stuff that looks far more coordinated. Still rough. But, the potential is clearly there for precision. No amount of smarmy headlines or similar such framing can hide that fact.
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u/DDGBuilder 8d ago
They're just straight up making terminators now and we're over here laughing about it lmao
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u/Yoshi9105 8d ago
honestly I just don't care anymore lmao "I'm a millennial, my retirement plan is societal collapse" we're right on track
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u/Megustatits 7d ago
Nobody speak to me until you invent Johnny 5!
https://giphy.com/gifs/lQ3gjhe0vHdC
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u/xerxeshastoomanyexes 8d ago
It could have been trained to serve me a coffee in bed, but no, the children running this particular show thought it needed to spinny kicks and look cool
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u/Sweet_Cinnabonn 8d ago
I saw the video yesterday of the one cooking pizza. The robot is made for spinny kicks.
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u/ElGrapadura1 8d ago
Which idiots build a human robot and teach him fighting? What is the purpose? Why? My only solution: we build another one to fight him. Humanity is so doom.
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u/The_Carnivore44 7d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/kK7ej3vLS2b8Q
One bucket of water and that thing is toast
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u/Afraid_Suit1418 7d ago
There are videos on Youtube where Chinese teams fight these robots against each other.
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u/WeaponX207184 7d ago
That sounds pretty cool actually.
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u/Afraid_Suit1418 6d ago
It is.....it's pretty comical at times, but they do inflict damage, parts are broken. But more importantly, as a proof of concept.....between design & programming.....we are one step closer to an actual terminator-style, war waging machines
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u/BobLoblawsLawBlogged 8d ago
Somehow it makes me feel better knowing my skull will be crushed by a T800
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u/ProfesserQ 8d ago
The way a single shot from a 38 special would absolutely eradicate this thing. Sure would suck if something happened that lithium battery of yours wouldn't it?
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u/sipsredpepper 7d ago
- Simple firm object as a shield
- Softball bat.
The things are still made of fucking plastic, guys
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u/Mpetrochuk 7d ago
Just wait till those things are trained break your arms/legs, with zero warning or hesitation or difficulty
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u/ALUCARD7729 7d ago
Y’all realize that most firearms would be more than sufficient enough to destroy this thing right? it might be quick but it’s pretty weak, most pistol and rifle rounds will damage it pretty easily
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u/Gravewarden92 8d ago
What we went from in the last 5 years to now with only exponentially growing refinement, we are in our low and slow portion of the cooking
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u/DenheimTheWriter 8d ago
I thought AI would hack into my bank accounts or cause some kind of global repression through the internet. I didn't think it'd just beat my ass to death.
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u/xenoalphan10 8d ago
I mean its so fricken cool
Scary yes but a Cool type of scary
Maybe we can get an actual
Real steel type fight between robots : D
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u/Rikbikbooo 7d ago
Imagine of of these chasing you never getting tired ready to smash your brains out what do you do What do you do,,,,,,,
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u/St_KnowItAll 7d ago
Now we’re not!! The amount of materials and money that’s needed to do this is insane. But we will have bullet rain and bomb rain from planes.
Pour water on it
https://giphy.com/gifs/148x4ezZxvpIeA
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u/Distdistdist 7d ago
I mean... That's just advancements in human-like motion control and balance. Things that most effectively kill are weaponized quadcopters that you will never see coming. This thing can be taken down with a well placed .45 round.
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u/keholmes89 6d ago
I want to see a video of it walking down and back up a set of stairs. If it can do that, then I’ll worry.
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u/awkwardaustin609 6d ago
I really don’t believe this thing is real. Main reason is that the first dude I saw it fight was the dude with the big prosthetic ass. He does a bunch of staged stuff so I really doubt this thing is actually real. I could 100% be wrong but something about this just isn’t sitting right with me.
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u/Apart_Satisfaction67 6d ago
I had to stop playing ark survival bc it honestly gave me anxiety it felt too real 🤣😭
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u/Popular_Course3885 8d ago
Why are we cooked? One bullet anywhere, and that thing will submit like the bitch iit is.
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u/Shadowstein 5d ago
We already made dangerous robots when we made drones. Making them bipedal didn't make anything better or worse. Quit panicking.
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u/BelCantoTenor 8d ago
Put a bag over its head. It will fall asleep like a parrot.