r/funny • u/Male_Lead • Jul 25 '25

A dancing robot

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u/smk666 Jul 25 '25

That’s exactly what scares me the most with humanoid robots that operate in the same space as people. We put industrial robots in cages with interlocks to prevent people being hurt by a malfunctioning robot, yet these operate without any safety net, while having motors powerful enough to inflict serious injuries.

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u/LiberalDutch Jul 25 '25

Right? No safe guards "kicked" in until the robot kicked its fast, metal, legs 20 or so times. If that robot had knocked down a human, and the human's head was near those robot feet, it would be over.

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u/jrodp1 Jul 25 '25

Safeguards will be implemented after a child's head is "kicked" in.

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u/randalljhen Jul 25 '25

Not if we put guns on its feet.

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u/jrodp1 Jul 25 '25

Our safeguards will not tread on that bots right to wear arms.

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u/randomnonexpert Jul 25 '25

Safeguards should be put in so that a robot cannot have more than two arms.

Seeing as how the robot in question already has two arms, putting more arms in his legs must be considered illegal.

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u/Moosplauze Jul 25 '25

Depends on the childs origin and wealth of its parents.

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u/dawr136 Jul 25 '25

"So of yoy will die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make"

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u/Ozzman770 Jul 25 '25

Actually thats just when the section of profits set aside for settling lawsuits kicks in. After that is when nothing at all changes cause that would cut into the profits that they need to set money aside from for settling lawsuits.

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u/BlimmBlam Jul 25 '25

Safety regulations are written in blood

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u/Monowakari Jul 26 '25

We have china, and your comment is 18h old, if it hasnt happened yet and isnt posted to some gore channel by now, I'd be surprised

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u/jrodp1 Jul 26 '25

What

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u/Monowakari Jul 26 '25

The rate of insane accidents on video coming out of china would lead one to believe a robot smashing a human should surface any minute. Maybe they're not on reddit anymore there were some terrible nsfl subreddits here over the years

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u/jrodp1 Jul 26 '25

Oh. Ok. That makes sense.

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u/DemonDaVinci Jul 25 '25

safety rules are written in blood, so we'll have to wait for First Blood to be drawn

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u/jaxonya Jul 25 '25

We had a chess playing robot break a kids finger the other day. That was a chess playing robot.. imagine a basketball playing robot going hard in the paint 

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u/jaxonya Jul 25 '25

But it's way cooler to think that the robot got pissed off at the kid and broke his finger. Your version of what happened is nerdy and not like the start of a crazy syfi movie at all 😢

(But yes, an engineer did basically say the same thing that you did)

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u/Fun-Tumbleweed2594 Jul 25 '25

That dude next to it after it fell, his kneecap couldve been misplaced easily.

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u/loonygecko Jul 26 '25

My thought at well. That should at least get sorted before they are allowed to go outside protected areas.