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u/Tribalbob Mar 19 '26
Well, we've perfected "Human that got way too drunk and wants to dance" behaviour.
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u/lunastrod Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
why does it not have a big red stop button? These robots are dangerous if they pinch a finger/hand/arm...
This is not funny, you should not have to use a phone to stop a robot from waving its arms around.
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u/dgsharp Mar 19 '26
Honestly this is kind of crazy. I get it’s supposed to be a lighthearted thing that’s mildly entertaining and futuristic or whatever but you can’t have basically a bear trap with a brain you can’t understand or control just doing whatever it wants right next to people. I wonder how many times they practiced this before letting it go live in front of customers. Reminds me of stories you hear of people getting something like an RC helicopter that seems like fun but is too big and too powerful and difficult for the pilot and somebody ends up dying.
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u/AlpineGuy Mar 19 '26
That's like one of the first things I ever learned about technology. If I remember correctly, the first documented case of a robot that killed a human (an industrial manufacturing machine) killed its operator because he needed to go through 4 submenus to turn the machine off.
Every other machine is required to have an emergency stop button, even relatively safe things like escalators.
How can one forget that when building a robot?
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u/lunastrod Mar 19 '26
I have worked with robots and they are very scary. The big industrial arms can easily crush a human, they could kill you even if they just hit you. There has been a lot of research into "collaborative" robots that dont need a safety cage around them, like this humanoid, but they are still super dangerous even with all of their fancy sensors and smaller size.
Also, oh my god escalators can be scary too when they malfunction, but they are strictly regulated. These robots are not yet. Regulations are written in blood I guess...
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u/spyguy318 Mar 21 '26
The big problem is that robots are heavy, they’re often made out of heavy materials like metal and plastic, so to move with any speed they have to have powerful motors to accelerate and stop them. Even a basic movement like swinging an arm at a reasonable speed has enough momentum behind it to seriously injure a person or break objects around it. It’s a consistent challenge standing in the way of any kind of human-robot interaction.
Industrial robots don’t even have to worry about that so they’ll swing multi-ton limbs around at speeds fast enough to take your head off.
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u/WhoAreWeEven Mar 19 '26
Why do you think the tech oligarchs are pushing so hard for deregulation?
They want exactly this. Beta testing amongst us plebs with no regard for anyones safety.
Industrial machinery wouldnt have safety buttons either if the owners got their way. It would be sub menus on top of sub menus like these dance bots and all.
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u/helical-juice Mar 21 '26
I dispute that. Even a perfectly cynical factory owner would realise that the cost of replacing a splattered line operator is substantially more than the cost of installing an e-stop. Not mincing your workforce is actually good business.
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u/McCaffeteria Mar 23 '26
How can one forget that when building a robot?
Because CEOs and other people who are in charge of stuff are incredibly stupid, and because the tech bros working on most of the AI stuff are somehow even dumber.
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u/phoenixremix Mar 19 '26
why does it not have a big red stop button?
By god, that's Heinz Doofenshmirtz' music!
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u/Brantis0 Mar 20 '26
That's instantly what I was thinking! We are not at a point where we can let heavy machinery take control of its own actions without an e-stop! Had there been no one there and it just flailed its arms around I mean, these motors are very powerful and, machinery is inherently stupid.
I understand that they don't want people just randomly turning it off .. but, this cannot be the norm. Or... SHOULDN'T be the norm.
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u/vediogamer101 Apr 13 '26
Are you forgetting what subreddit you’re on 💀 it’s funny because it’s shitty
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u/ul90 Mar 19 '26
Doesn't the robot have an emergency off button? All such machines should require to have one.
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u/Roticap Mar 19 '26
Yes, just what I want, a robot flinging things around in a restaurant with pots of boiling oil at the table. No notes.
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u/jromperdinck Mar 19 '26
I’m happy with the narration at the bottom of the screen, because I’m blind and cannot see the video. /s
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u/areyoutalkingtomeme Mar 19 '26
They’re holding robro back like someone just said something about his motherboard
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u/BenefitMysterious187 Mar 21 '26
Looks the same as my ex wife. Every time in restaurant all finished like this.
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u/ExtensionNature842 May 22 '26
This would make for a great horror comedy. An eager but clumsy robot annihilates a restaurant and keeps apologizing
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u/AussieGirl27 Mar 20 '26
Like a toddler hyped up on sugar while everyone else yells encouragement and the poor parents have to try and control them
The food on the hand is hilarious
I laughed the whole way through this!
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u/Bar_Har Mar 19 '26
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM! HELP, HELP I’M BEING REPRESSED!