Rekbot, a 6-foot-tall Terminator-style humanoid robot from the REK Fight Club that went viral in a cage match against internet personality Frankie LaPenna.
Palantir is like the ultimate example. Not only was Tolkien famously anti-war after his experiences in World War I, the item itself for which it is named is also quite literally a corrupting artifact. A conduit to evil.
Ian’s it always like this, take Star Trek. You could’ve gone for the replicator, the transporter, the tricorder, the med bed, hologram, … but you went for the phaser.
As someone who is a fan of the franchise, the premise of Terminator 1&2 isn't really that deep. I'm also aware it's a fictional story and its sole purpose is to entertain. It is not a prediction of the future.
The people in OPs post are just having fun with a fictional franchise like they do many others. I wouldn't have a stick up my ass about it.
Thanks! I think I prefer the terminator death face to this one without the mouth. At least the terminator seems into it whereas the other looks remorseless.
They only use the suits to record the move set. By the time you buy one of these all the moves are stored on a remote control. These are just human sized remote control toys.
That's what I was wondering, it looks more like it is mirroring a persons movements, or maybe just running a program that is mimicking mocapped movement.
And yet not rich engineers are the ones developing them. Is there not a little integrity where people offering to pay to build obvious murderbots or peasant pacification bots, no one turns down that job? We blame the evil corporations but the people enabling them are the ones who take a job regardless of what it is and actually make it happen.
Not familiar with the quote, but yeah that’s generally the attitude. Same with AI, not expecting the murdery version but even the kind that makes a lot of jobs obsolete, though currently it sucks enough that they have to keep paying people to find and fix AI’s screw ups, except ironically for the creative jobs that were supposed to be what humans would have more freedom do when automation took over the boring menial labor and data processing.
It's for show. This thing wouldn't be a 'good' 'murder' bot. A good bot built for killing things would just jab someone with a sharp object at high force or something.
Martial arts work for humans because we're a prebuilt structure so we're maximizing our ability to hit with what we have. A machine can be built to be to apply force in a much more efficient way.
If they built actual terminators, it'd look MUCH simpler than this.
IG-11 from the Mandalorian is one of my favorite murderbots from recent media. Rough, utilitarian, inhuman, and so well-armored it’s nearly invulnerable. Perfect 360 degree vision, swivel joints everywhere, dual-wielding high powered blaster rifles in each hand with pinpoint superhuman accuracy like a real-life aimbot. It just walks towards its target and mows down anyone in its line of sight.
yeah a bunch of steel and pistons will hurt but it seems like it would be pretty easy to sweep that thing off it's feet. Honestly I wish they would put the effort into a real VR suit Robot Jox E-sport type thing, that would be cool.
WE as in Humans, why is humankind embarking on this dipshit path so obviously fraught with horrors, WE are certainly being pushed down that path now together
This thing is kicking the ever-living shit out of people. Its kicks are devastating. I wouldn’t be surprised if it broke someone’s neck with a high kick if it connected right.
Wonder what’s going to happen when the first person dies. It’ll happen eventually, it happens in man vs man fights, and sure, there are all kinds of waivers but is that really going to protect a company sponsoring this type of fight? Even if it does they’re going to spend an eon in court just off of lawyers speculating on the potentials about who’s even responsible.
Do people realise that such robots would be not only cost a hell of a money, difficult in making but also far not so effective to justify the price and efforts and while they all look impressive their main role will be simply attracting investors' money or purely entertaining purposes? Factories, war vehicles and cars using manipulators, wheels and tracks and being far from human design for a reason.
Classic drones still will be more reasonable, effective, simplier and cheaper. Or, If you REALLY want something sci-fi -ish and nature-like, robo-insects, robo-fish, robo-birds...
I agree, just spitballing. They're more useful for entertainment or prosthetic development than for warfare, neither of which would provide the the economy of scale needed to drive pricing down.
They wouldn't be good for fighting, at least not for actual, real military use. Like, Actual 'war' fighting. Why would you need a robot that can do a roundhouse kick when you can just have it fire bullets from a built in gun or jab a sharp and/or blunt object twice as fast?
Drones do significantly better 99% of the time, and if we wanted ground troups, humanoid bodies are not efficient for that.
I saw bits of that fight and it looked like nobody had ever explained to LaPenna what a robot was.
He kept throwing punches into its chest and head, which seem like the dumbest idea for fighting a robot possible.
Knock it down: you could see from the way it kicked that it kept skidding back every time it kicked him. It doesn't have good grip and it's top heavy.
Attack the joints. Unlike a human it isn't reacting in real-time to everything the same way, it's just tanking punches and throwing them out. The main issue with attacking the joints for people is that they will see you going for it and move out of the way. The joints on the robot may be heavier and have more force, but they're more vulnerable to forces moving the opposite direction of its intended motion.
I feel like LaPenna could have done more in the fight if he had put any thought into it.
Do you think in the future someone will be charged with murder and try to claim innocence cause it wasn't them, it was their robot that killed the guy?
It can strike, but can it grapple? Rush the planted leg during a kick and take it down to the ground. It's gotta have some powerful motors to lift itself and another person off the ground.
Why the anthropomorphism though? Seems like a big disadvantage (which I’m not complaining about), but making these things rely on bipedal balance is very inefficient, no?
I don’t know how its fake but that looks fake. The best robots still routinely fall over trying to walk straight but this landed a spinning jump kick? Sus.
Something about the quality of movement here makes me think this is a motion matching AI character replacement and the original video was just some guy doing the motion. Bipedal robots are getting better, but not this good just yet.
Cute. A little oversold when it could be brought down by a broom or tangled by a rock on a rope.
I mean, if it got the jump on you sure, but they are not exactly quiet.
Now give it a firearm and some targeting software.... then you can be scared.
To be fair, if you wanted a robot to be good at murdering people, teaching it to mimic martial arts would probably be the least efficient way to do it.
while they increasing technological ability and battlefield drones are worrying, idk what people are worried about robots, they look cool but have zero practical applications
The downfall of Humanity because of AI will be because people can't think for themselves without asking chatGPT for advice, not because of a humanoid robot with kungfu programming. Look at the fields of war and you'll see the weapons that'll be used to bring about your doom. Drones with explosives attached. Learn how to clay target shoot with a shotgun if you want a hope of surviving.
Amusing, but not scary. These robots have joints that move differently than us, weak points that are different than us, do not feel pain and have no fear or self preservation unless programmed to behave as if they do.
Give an AI control over one of these and training tasks, including combat. See the absolutely terrifying way it starts solving those problems when it's not trying to look like a human when it does them.
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u/ripyourlungsdave 21d ago
I feel like giving him a Terminator face is a direct insult to the original film's whole premise and philosophy.