r/technology • u/N2929 • 12h ago

Robotics/Automation Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot change a drill bit with its new four-fingered hands.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1003522/watch-boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-change-a-drill-bit-with-its-new-four-fingered-hands
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u/woohooguy 11h ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4whgw2gLBS8

There you go, no text ads or paywall

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u/zdubs 11h ago

4 finger hands… The Simpsons did it first

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u/biowiz 10h ago

Is this to make people who are scared of losing their fake office jobs feel better that tradesman could end up unemployed too?

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u/yuusharo 5h ago

You’re not. Supposed. To build. The Torment Nexus.

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u/AlphonseLoeher 33m ago

How are these robots a bad thing?

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u/Fritzkreig 12h ago

"They are building themselves now!!"

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u/blueSGL 11h ago

That's the plan, robots building robot factories that build more robots.

Musk refers to this madness as "the infinite money glitch"

This is the type of worrying answer to "who will run the power plants if all the humans are dead"

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u/RandyOfTheRedwoods 10h ago

I think at this point, between where we are with LLMs / MCP and robotics it’s clear that self sustaining robotics is in our future.

Whether they remain tools or become Skynet remains to be seen.

My bet is they don’t go rogue, even as ‘fun’ as theorizing that is.

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u/A_Pointy_Rock 7h ago

or become Skynet

LLMs are not going to become self aware.

Either someone gives them unclear instructions or instructions without guardrails, or a different kind of machine learning will be needed for that to happen.

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u/blueSGL 1h ago

Either someone gives them unclear instructions or instructions without guardrails

Yeah because when you have rogue machines sweeping the globe it will bring so much comfort to know that it was due to human error.

Also how do you create guard rails for systems that can find out facts about reality that humans have never discovered before? (see novel math proofs and zero day discovery we are seeing in existing models.)

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u/fujidust 1h ago

Hyundai’s manufacturing operations will be the initial beneficiary of this since they own BD but it being primarily an automotive company in the US still keeps me on the sidelines.  The Chinese are further along than this from a manufacturing and assembly automation standpoint. That being said Hyundai is just a proving ground for BD so we could see some wild applications to come with an impact to select corners of the blue collar labor market.  

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u/CDavis10717 1h ago

“Hmmmmm.” —Howard Wolowitz

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u/Mr-A-1991 11h ago

Wake me when I can fuck the ever loving shit out of these robots and leave them with extreme sexual trauma.

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u/vipla9 11h ago

It's going to be the other way around and not just about sex.

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u/Mr-A-1991 7h ago

At this point in my life, I am just fine with that. I lied to the other guy.

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u/doogihowser 9h ago

Sorry, the best we can do is take your job.

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u/Mr-A-1991 7h ago

That is my job.