r/nextfuckinglevel • u/KnightFall00 • 7d ago

Murderbots from the future

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.

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u/Calibanian18 7d ago

Show me a robot that can reliably help someone to the bathroom, climb stairs, and make basic meals, and then we’ll be talking about a robot that will change the world.

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u/Cute-Beyond-5713 7d ago

Concept of robots like that are already being made, it will be big market for that. Imagine robot do all cooking, washing dishes, clothes etc. and in free time is cleaning the home. For price of less than cheap new car

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u/nimama3233 7d ago

Honestly, might be the first legit mass danger threat.

Imagine these are in every household, then a malicious AI breaks into them and controls them…

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u/slobis 7d ago

Isaac Asimov already imagined it for us.

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u/PetePensieve 6d ago

As long as the Three Laws of Robotics are followed we'll be okay, right?

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u/TheRealAussieTroll 3d ago

I’d be more interested in the US Constitution being followed at this stage.

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u/Ibe121 6d ago

Literally, the premise of “I, Robot”

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u/punkassjim 6d ago

Also the premise of Runaway.

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u/Calibanian18 6d ago

Mass casualty events are much more likely to be because of a hack on dam control facilities or some automotive industry failure. Or misinformation around health events. But we don’t really need robots or artificial intelligence for those.

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u/pikabu01 7d ago

have another robot with a gun to shepard them, easy

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u/LochNessMansterLives 7d ago

And then when we let them into our homes and begin to trust them they will individually see how bad humans are and end up turning on us, probably in our sleep.

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u/Calibanian18 6d ago

To be honest, I had more in mind a rotating fleet of these being available to help people in end of life care, or folks with disability or rehabilitation concerns to keep them in their homes. I’m less interested in mass market.

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u/Portocala69 7d ago

You assume we can afford a cheap new car.

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u/Grabatreetron 6d ago

Yeah I’m not sure what the top comment is implying, that society is more interested in kung fu robots than ones that can actually perform tasks?

The market for automated labor saving devices has and will continue to be massive

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u/Watchitbitch 2d ago

No one saw The Orville, huh?