Comments on: Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid work at a ‘construction site’

By: Andre Odayan

Andre Odayan — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 01:46:37 +0000

Hti Peepz…I’m sorry, but I am a real tech fan. I love what u guyz at Boston are tryna do for us 4 the future generations. Its quite cool and verylpful in many a work and play environments in this day and age…
I also am very weary about total world takeover by these so called ” Assistants” of yours. They have taken over all our lives but we are so dumb struck by the most common robots/ ANDROID’s, our PHONES- PEOPLE… OUR- PHONES…
So many people out there dont even know what it means to have an android phone. They dont know what are all those permissions are that they have granted the AI system in their phones… U have given ” IT” access to our most personal data that we cant keep in our heads all the time… The next time your phone does sumthing faulty, remember, IT asked you first already, and you said ” YES-YES- YES”…

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:03:59 +0000

Robots taking over the work site? Not with this iteration. Once the cut out the floor route and teach the AI that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line that doesn’t include a fancy dance… then maybe we’ll have some competition. Until then I wouldn’t let one of these things NEAR a site.

By: Harry J.

Harry J. — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 13:49:15 +0000

Is that a battery pack on its back ?

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 03:53:36 +0000

I think it's very impressive. The agility of the robot is quite amazing. Now if it could be programmed to adapt to every possible work hazard

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:17:13 +0000

I sat in the audience in Philadelphia PA as Gary Kasparov was defeated by Deep Blue from IBM. If memory serves correctly Kasparov beat the first couple games and then was trounced in the rest after the Deep Blue team “tweaked” the program that they were using. Kasparov was not happy when the tweak happened he said that he was not playing the same opponent. When I saw this I knew that the writing was on the wall. Deep Blue did not succeed in the ways that I thought it would- IBM probably had more important things to do. I live in an area full of distribution centers. I believe that within the next decade or so robots like these will be able to do jobs in these warehouse that are now done by humans. The technology is moving so quickly that I can envision AI physicians that can be summoned up via a web browser. Boston Dynamics will produce the workers of the future – they might have a high initial cost per unit, but the don’t take breaks, don’t need water fountains and never get sick. This is frightening and exciting to me at the same time.

By: Steven Koss

Steven Koss — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:46:36 +0000

I worked in the construction industry 37 years climbing pushing pulling etc a bot could not be programmed to do a 5 year apprenticeship yet.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:22:56 +0000

This is a very dangerous path to go down. Replacing humans is not anything I support. It will not be used to help us get our forgotten tools. Don’t be foolish and naive.

By: Tony N

Tony N — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:16:46 +0000

I don’t see the purpose of fooling everybody; I believe this is legit, and therefore goodbye, it’s been fun, humanity you were great… give it to the robots, they couldn’t possibly farck it up any more than we did…

By: Amy Griesbach

Amy Griesbach — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:11:30 +0000

Humanoid robots scare the living daylights outta me. But the level of tech is absolutely amazing.

By: Steve Crowe

Steve Crowe — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:55:50 +0000

In reply to David. David, while many share that same sentiment, I can tell you Atlas isn't CGI. I saw an in-person demo of Atlas' parkour routine a few months ago. Hard to believe it's real because it's so far ahead of other humanoids, but it is indeed real.

By: David

David — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:11:49 +0000

Why do all their videos look like CGI? I’m not sure I believe any of their products actually do anything except CGI.