All the abuse...

With treatment like that you've got to wonder how long before they turn on us. Will we humans ever learn?

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we're all fucked!

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

Oh gentle machines, please spare my life, and the life of my family.

Boston Dynamics is trying really hard to become Cyberdine Systems for real huh?

After all that, I'd leave too.

Been upvoting BD here since the dancing Big Dog days...so what's with the bigger bipedal in the lineup? Not ready for prime-time yet?

AAAAANNNNTTT!!!!

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The way it pushed itself into the upright position was eerily reminiscent of the old stop-motion-feeling stuff i remember from ED209 in robocop. There is genuinely going to come a point, sooner or later, where the robot starts to remember which jerk kept pushing him over when he was young and vulnerable.

Hmmm..... the movie or the band?

That is goddamn impressive. I can only imagine in 10 years, they'll have one that moves pretty indistinguishably from a human. Of course, the trick will be making the batter last for more than 20 minutes.

All the same. This just way cool stuff.

I noticed something. In previous videos, they would kick or push the robots, now they have to use a stick. Maybe they found the robots reactions might actually be dangerous. Dangerous as in sticking your finger into the moving machinery, not dangerous as in Great Vengeance and Furious Anger...

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Really looking forward to its dishwashing abilities.

Damn it!!

AAAAAAAANNNT!!!

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It does seem like there are QR codes on everything it interacted with. The doors and boxes were covered in them. So really, the impressive thing isn't that it can open a door or pick up a box, but that it can dynamically balance while doing those things.

What impressed me the most was the way it handled the dynamically changing surface of the snow covered ground. Having your foot suddenly break through snow and drop an inch or two is challenging enough for a human, never mind a robot! The self-righting was pretty awesome too and yes, I was hoping the robot would backhand hockey-boy across the room lol.

Boston Dynamics lost the military contract(s) because the robot dog was waaay too loud to be used in the field (would give away position).

This thing is just as loud, so you'll be able to hear our new robot overlords a mile away before you have to welcome them.

"Why did you push me down, Dave?"

Boston Dynamics - Auralnauts Horror Edition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAmyZP-qbTE

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
"I love box....Dan loves family"...
Should have continued mumbling as it left...
...'Dan hurts box'....

Here we go...

http://videosift.com/video/Robot-Abuse-With-Robot-Response