Terminator: Right Here, Right Now!

[Jon]

I came across an extraordinary video yesterday which just goes to show how fast robotics is advancing. The robot in the video is a T800, and it looks scary! Give it another 5 years, slap on some super intelligence and who knows what it will do.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

DAMN!!! Jon, that video means you're gonna get a dry-cleaning bill for my pants.

The "shadow mode" demonstration brings back the movie Real Steel - which wasn't the greatest movie in the world but it was a reasonably enjoyable Rocky rip-off.

But I can see police versions of this with serious armor as a way to quell a riot or flush out an armed perpetrator. A heat-resistant version of this could become a supplement to fire departments because it won't need breathing apparatus to look for trapped victims.

 

[Jon]

Great idea, riot police!

 

[Isaac]

if true, that looks like a VERY advanced robot. my son mastered in robotics engineering, and in many cases I was surprised at how primitive the robots they worked with were. Maybe the really expensive stuff was something the University just couldn't get its hands on for $

 

[RonPaii]

The video is an interesting animation but unrealistic. A living being has sensory organs on every part of the body. Move your hand, it can sense the movement of air past your fingers. A robot has non of that. It may have gyros to provide it better balance than a human but it can't match all the other senses.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

The video CLAIMS to have no special effects. I would understand if you are skeptical, but if you are, you wouldn't be bothered by my skepticism either. Please note also that you can look up EngineAI on the web and see news articles. If it is a fake, it has fooled a lot of people.

 

[Jon]

At first I thought it could be AI generated, but they are supposed to be a respected robotics company, and there is a video showing parts of them making the video. The Chinese manufacturers are really getting a move on with their innovation. Having said that, there is always a small possibility that eeven the outtakes are AI generated, but if I had to put my money on it, I would say it is real. Robots really have come a long way in the last 2 years.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996165785056919634

 

[Jon]

Also, check out Unitree, who are one of the leading robotics labs. They are all doing the Kung Fu stuff.

 

[Jon]

For context, this is a Unitree video from 2 years ago. You can see how far they have come in very little time.

 

[Jon]

This is the boss getting kicked by the T800. It makes me wonder what the robots will be able to do when AGI and super intelligence starts designing them.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

If EVER we needed to assure the application of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, this is the time.

1. A robot must never harm a human being, nor though inaction allow a human being to be harmed.
2. A robot must obey all commands given to it, except when doing so would conflict with the 1st law.
3. A robot must preserve its existence, except when doing so would conflict with the 1st or 2nd laws.

And we have to watch out for the loophole reasoned by Viki in I, Robot