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Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut (www.euronews.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I love this so much. I'd love to find one with sound. In the meantime I'm just watching this over and over humming the Rocky theme.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Frankly, if the thing is that untested, I'm not sure that I'd want to have the developers or the audience that close to it without shielding. And it should have a remote E-stop switch (though maybe it did here, and that's why it froze up).

You know those Boston Dynamics videos? Unless the stuff is pretty mature, they've got those protective walls or are interacting with the robots with hockey sticks.

Ex:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYwekersccY

EDIT: Actually, looking at the Russian video again, I think that the AIdol people don't have a remote E-stop button and were instead fumbling around with one built onto its back there, since that's when it stopped moving.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Security? This is Russia, they sent 1000+ people to die every day for no reason lol

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean, yeah, but that's wartime policy. Like, most countries are willing to take more risks and accept more costs if they consider is necessary to fight a war.

But as far as I know, doing this demo successfully isn't something that Russia needs for any kind of war purposes.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, using it for military purposes probably hasn't crossed their minds. 🙄

[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

they keep bullying him in your example video ;=;

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's some company that has done some CGI videos making fun of the Boston Dynamics use of a hockey stick for separation, do videos that have humans pretending to be Boston Dynamics people abusing a CGI robot.

kagis

Corridor Digital, as "Bosstown Dynamics":

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22bosstown+dynamics%22

e.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjCWfuvYxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RIHnK0_NE