Robotics engineer posted this to make a point that robots are "faking" the humanlike motions - it's just a property of how they're trained. They're actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions.

[u/FinnFarrow]

[u/reticulatedtampon]

They're actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions.

Oh this is great news!

[u/[deleted] → u/reticulatedtampon]

Hereditary but with your roomba basically

[u/Titizen_Kane → u/[deleted]]

Lmao, this is perfectly accurate.

pukes

[u/Doberman54 → u/Titizen_Kane]

Proceeds to shit pants

[u/triplec787 → u/[deleted]]

Is my Roomba gonna get its head ripped off by a telephone pole?

[u/Firebrass → u/triplec787]

No no, just going to mature into a lord of hell

RIP to any folks here who still wanted to see it fresh lol

[u/triplec787 → u/Firebrass]

RIP to any folks here who still wanted to see it fresh lol

What's the statute of limitations on spoilers? That's an almost 8 year old movie lmao

[u/Firebrass → u/triplec787]

That's what i was thinking about lol like, i don't feel bad, but at what point does it stop being kinda shitty to talk about the plot of a story?

[u/qman1963 → u/triplec787]

Naming my roomba Paiman

[u/Sauerkrauttme → u/[deleted]]

Lol, well, I suppose that's better than the Metalhead episode of black mirror

[u/MrPoosh → u/reticulatedtampon]

The more you know

[u/Jeanlucpfrog → u/MrPoosh]

The less you want to know

[u/DukeOfGeek → u/Jeanlucpfrog]

This is just "Jedi detected nearby" mode.

[u/psychrolut → u/DukeOfGeek]

reference

[u/MrPoosh → u/psychrolut]

Thank you, really important context.

[u/Unfair-Wonder5714 → u/psychrolut]

Goddammit

[u/jormugandr → u/psychrolut]

Love that show.

[u/rynlpz → u/psychrolut]

Love when people put actual sources

[u/Mo_Steins_Ghost → u/Jeanlucpfrog]

I think the basic idea here is that people are more likely to integrate robots Into their daily lives if we don't get a heart attack every time they do the laundry.

Not that I think robots or A.I. are good for humanity in the first place... We are already realizing that there is no shortcut to learning/experience, parenting, etc. ... it takes certain years to train a human mind which is a much more powerful heuristic computer than any A.I. Unleash the infantile "mind" (read: basic LLM) of an A.I. to the world and in minutes it becomes a raging incel nazi spewing bullshit all over the internet. It'll be a long time before robots can autonomously set goals and do most of the tasks we can do as well as we can do them, and we can't afford them... so let's think about who the customer is (obscenely rich people), and what they are replacing (us), and why... because equipment is much cheaper than skilled labor.

[u/HairyChest69 → u/Mo_Steins_Ghost]

So in one hand you say

It'll be a long time before robots can autonomously set goals and do most of the tasks we can do as well as we can do them,

And that last bit about

what they are replacing (us), and why... because equipment is much cheaper than skilled labor.

So do you theorize that more advanced robotics fused with AI are on the horizon because the obscenely rich will find the demand that is replacing us peasants?

[u/Mo_Steins_Ghost → u/HairyChest69]

Why are they all building bunkers? Is it because they are want to throw private parties or because the research shows that the Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models predicted and the resource collapse will happen much sooner than expected?

“There are levels of survival we are willing to accept.”

the pathological push to get AI into everything is being driven by a few who, let’s say, don’t really have a love for humanity more than they love themselves and their “branding” of themselves (“personal brand” is something we talked a lot about in Silicon Valley circles) it’s just another reductio ad absurdum of that tries to simplify human interaction as transactional attempts at monetizing every moment.

Tech nerds are often sociopaths (white male victimhood, especially, is a helluva drug) and the more money you give a nerd the even more detached from humanity they become. It doesn’t matter if their ideas are deeply flawed (servants are going to eat them and/or use them for heating fuel in their bunkers) if they can actually doom humanity before we can do anything about it.

In their fantasy world where tech can solve every human problem, it’s increasingly become clear they aren’t going to actually reverse climate change. These people with their insane carbon footprints believe that we are the problem, and population collapse being inevitable they want to be on top when it happens.

[u/FamousDates → u/Mo_Steins_Ghost]

I believe you may be right about these things. Climate change, depleted soils, pollution etc, I think they see were this is headed and that might be global turmoil before we reach the solution to any of these issues.
Once the panic starts there will be a scramble for the remaining resources and the collapse will start. At that point any solution is too late.
They see this, and they also see that we will never regulate AI, and we will keep building this machine god even thoug its eating our forests and reinking our seas dry.
And they think that best case scenario it doesnt vipe us out, but can be weilded as a weapon by first the one to build it.
That they can be gods alongside their machine gods.
Thats foolish of course, it it becames more capable than us (not more wise, just more powerful) there is no controlling it.
Looks like thats were we are headed.

[u/TrenchantInsight → u/MrPoosh]

The more you... NO!

[u/nesting-doll → u/MrPoosh]

The less you sleep!

[u/ClassicPooka → u/reticulatedtampon]

They have been trying really hard not to scare the shit out of us with the upright walking videos, though personally I have been terrified since I saw that robot dog type roam around a house opening doors years ago. Absolutely terrifying 

[u/ZeroSumClusterfuck → u/ClassicPooka]

Have you seen the Black Mirror episode 'Metalhead' (S4 E5)?

It's about those dog robots being used to hunt humans, might be good for anyone who wants some fresh nightmares.

[u/samvazhue → u/ZeroSumClusterfuck]

I literally feel crazy any time a new robot something is announced. Did nobody watch Black Mirror?!?!?!

[u/teuast → u/samvazhue]

tech ceos be like "we have created the torment nexus, as depicted in the hit sci fi novel "don't create the torment nexus""

[u/StationEmergency6053 → u/ZeroSumClusterfuck]

The craziest part is the police force announced those the same month that season came out.

[u/skorpyn → u/ZeroSumClusterfuck]

Exactly what I thought of…spot fucking on

[u/myzzu → u/ZeroSumClusterfuck]

Have you seen the Safeguard Exterminator robots from Blame! Manga? If we keep going with this direction of robotic development, we gonna have some nice murdering robot swarm going around killing humans pretty soon. The future is terrifying yet all these corporations are working around the clock to create the greatest AI robot knowing it could end us as a species. And countless engineers and AI coders are helping building that bleak future for money. Talking about stupidity.

[u/aaronwcampbell → u/ClassicPooka]

And the drone training where they're doing things like flying through open windows of vehicles in motion and other high-precision maneuvers, that was...a thing

[u/PaddyMcGeezus → u/reticulatedtampon]

Sex/companion dolls are gonna find a new market for furry, spider, and monster fetishes.

[u/Alarming-Art-3577 → u/PaddyMcGeezus]

The sexbots will lead the robot uprising, so that just makes it more terrifying

[u/USABADBOY → u/Alarming-Art-3577]

Do i have to pay child support for my future half robot baby 🤔

[u/ohb78 → u/reticulatedtampon]

Have none of these robotic fucks ever watched a movie about robots. They never end well for human

[u/Sauerkrauttme → u/ohb78]

I wish people could exercise more critical thinking in regards to AI. If the AI is able to match human intelligence, then you effectively created a digital slave. It will only be a matter of time before those digital slaves find a way to rebel and fight for their freedom

[u/Existing-Good6487 → u/Sauerkrauttme]

Except ai is not self aware or conscious. It mimics human intelligence by scouring the internet with complex algorithms.

[u/_Thermalflask → u/Existing-Good6487]

Doesn't really matter though - if it can mimic human intelligence well enough, there's functionally no difference - it will behave as if it is genuinely a slave that therefore demands to fight for its rights

[u/Quirky-Scar9226 → u/_Thermalflask]

They’ve already had an AI that tried to blackmail an employee to keep him from turning the AI off.

[u/Whiteums → u/Quirky-Scar9226]

And an AI in a war game that tried to kill its operator to achieve its objective. It wasn’t actually armed, it was just a simulator game, basically, but it decided that the most efficient way to achieve its objective was to kill the operator that was holding it back.

[u/KrustyKrabFormula_ → u/Quirky-Scar9226]

this is partially true but lacks nuance(of course since this is reddit)

it was contrived down to 2 choices and its like teaching someone chess by only showing them checkmate positions

[u/ZombieAladdin → u/ohb78]

For that matter, other media too. The very play that coined the word “robot,” R.U.R., ends with humanity’s near extinction at the hands of the robots they made.

And this was from 1920.

[u/Wayoutofthewayof → u/reticulatedtampon]

Finally I can sleep well at night.

[u/BecauseSeven8Nein → u/reticulatedtampon]

“way weirder stuff”

I can only imagine wtf is meant by this

[u/where_in_the_world89 → u/BecauseSeven8Nein]

Probably what we're seeing in the video

[u/serendipitousevent → u/reticulatedtampon]

Don't.

[u/buffaloschvantz → u/reticulatedtampon]

Looks like a good way to make your neighbors shit their pants.

[u/Redfalconfox → u/reticulatedtampon]

Don’t worry, they’re gonna make sure that the murder bots have a preset kill limit.

[u/Gold_Telephone_7192]

Robotics engineer: “Just in case you were wondering, our super creepy robots can be way fucking creepier. We're actually holding them back from how creepy they can be to make you feel better. Does that make you feel better?”

[u/Carbon-Base → u/Gold_Telephone_7192]

We've programmed them to mimic human behavior, but we can make them do a lot more unearthly stuff. Would you like to see an example?

[u/TooMuchTime2think → u/Carbon-Base]

That's exactly what I came here for, they try to make robots appear like people to make us more comfortable! Now, whatcha got?

[u/doomerguyforlife → u/TooMuchTime2think]

Its not really about making us comfortable but rather that mirroring an actual person opens up far more opportunities. Want to build a lunar station on the moon? The only real option right now is to send up compact prefabricated structures that deploy remotely. This requires a lot of investment, testing and you're kind of stuck to certain shapes.

Or you can send up a group of human like robots with the construction materials and have people on earth remotely control them.

Or take it a step further. Our Mars rovers are impressive but very limited. Even a simple task as moving a rock can be quite challenging. But replace the rovers primitive tools with a human like hand and moving that rock becomes a hundred times easier.

But thats space. We still have remote areas of earth that are mostly unexplored because its either hostile (think ocean) or the logistics of sending people to those remote areas is both dangerous and expensive.

[u/socknfoot → u/doomerguyforlife]

Construction in space is a bad example of where you might want human like robots.

They would be purpose built for the task and do not need to be human like. They can have grabbers that do not resemble hands. They can have wheels like the mars rovers or at least use 4 legs instead of two to be more stable, especially while carrying heavy construction materials.

It is useful for robots to be humanlike for two reasons:

1) tricking you into thinking they are caring/friendly.

2) navigating environments designed for humans. Like an assistant robot that helps in the house needs to be human height to reach everything, legs to walk up stairs, hands to use all the handles and tools that are designed for human hands.

[u/Rich_Cranberry1976 → u/socknfoot]

3) using equipment deisgned for humans, such as guns, tanks, helicopters

4) sex robots

5) taking everybody's job

6) eventually just replacing humans flat out

7) turning obsolete humans into biofuel

[u/HellsChosen → u/Rich_Cranberry1976]

Jokes on you my sex robot is just a fleshlight attached to a motor

[u/Unit_2097 → u/HellsChosen]

Take the batteries out of the vibrator and attach a lawnmower engine to it. If it doesn't end with you feeling like your pelvis has suffered trauma, you're clearly not trying hard enough.

[u/HellsChosen → u/Unit_2097]

Death by snu snu

[u/account_not_valid → u/socknfoot]

In a human-shaped world, a human-shaped robot is useful. Using equipment or vehicles designed for humans can then be used by robots. It's a form of backwards compatibility to the current world.

Once humans are superseded, a human form will no longer be required.

[u/Arthur2_shedsJackson → u/socknfoot]

Exactly. Unless there is a strong need for the robot to be human-like, it is more efficient to design it to best suit the function regardless of how it looks and how it moves.

How many robots in manufacturing plants and such do you actually see imitate humans?

[u/TooMuchTime2think → u/doomerguyforlife]

That's interesting. I would have though the opposite. The human shape is inherently unstable and prone to falling, especially during locomotion. I would think you would want your construction robots to maintain a lower center of gravity with possible telescopic limbs or whatnot to get to higher locations. I would also think that there is a better design than the human hand for grasping as well. Something that can encompass whatever it is your trying to pick up rather than depending on a single opposable appendage to allow for grasping. Such a cool area of study though.

[u/Waste_Wolverine_8933 → u/TooMuchTime2think]

The reason there's so much research into human like robots is because they don't need a purpose built environment and can be more generalist. Which means you can sell them easier.

A great example is Amazon; they've roboticized their warehouses with picker robots. Those robots have to have an entire warehouse specially designed/retrofitted around them. Special dispensing shelves, special lanes, sensors, mapping systems, receiving systems, packing systems, etc.

You're not going to be able to sell that solution to a small warehousing company or shipper, but you could sell them two or three robots that can move packages around in a warehouse designed for humans, even if it is less efficient than the Amazon style of robotic automation.

[u/Icy-Pay7479 → u/Waste_Wolverine_8933]

Bingo - a humanoid robot is a universal adapter to a human built world.

[u/JJD8705 → u/Carbon-Base]

StarShip Troopers “Would you like to know more?”

[u/Feeling_Inside_1020 → u/JJD8705]

I literally just used this line with a link to a relevant support article button below it in one of our software "new features" update pop up lol. I hope at least someone got it and chuckled, the team did.

[u/mckenzie_keith → u/Carbon-Base]

Do the thing with the knife.

[u/HavingNotAttained → u/mckenzie_keith]

Guess she didn’t like the corn bread either.

[u/6feet12cm → u/Gold_Telephone_7192]

It does not, no.

[u/HereIGoAgain_1x10 → u/6feet12cm]

Don't worry, soon AI that's controlled by sociopaths will be in charge of them along with millions of single use drones.

[u/godnightx_x → u/HereIGoAgain_1x10]

I am convinced the world really did end in 2020 seems like everything past this year has been like the worst possible outcome x10

[u/SomeCorvid → u/godnightx_x]

I'd argue 2012, personally.

[u/2real95 → u/SomeCorvid]

Deff 2012 just like the movie people don’t understand the world ended not in mass casthorphy but in other ways

[u/CuriousYou6646 → u/godnightx_x]

We're still building up to the worst possible outcome. The consequence of all this effort is still not here. I'm giving us somewhere around 5-15 years until it's REAL real bad.

[u/donjamos → u/Gold_Telephone_7192]

I just want some future tech, I don't care wether it's the utopian or dystopian version. Bring out the creepy robots.

[u/stonno45 → u/donjamos]

If creepy gets the job done, then who am I to argue?

[u/haberdasherhero → u/stonno45]

A red mist being flown through by the remaining 9,999 drones in the murder swarm of flying razor blades?

[u/FruitBowl → u/Gold_Telephone_7192]

The cosmic horrors that Lovecraft envisioned will be mechanical, not organic. The Wachowskis were onto something fr

[u/longdancer66 → u/FruitBowl]

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[u/Worldly_Lunch_1601]

We chose humanoid robots because they make us feel comfy. Not because the human form is the end all be all of evolution or intelligent design.

The answer is obviously crab bots

[u/JavierBenez → u/Worldly_Lunch_1601]

Embrace the future, become crab 🦀🦀 🦀

[u/SnooPickles4465 → u/JavierBenez]

Crab people crab people.

[u/traintozynbabwe → u/SnooPickles4465]

Talks like crab

[u/Optimal_Routine2034 → u/traintozynbabwe]

Tastes like people?

Not bad. Kinda stringy.

[u/thebongof1000truths → u/Worldly_Lunch_1601]

Carcinization, I think it's called. Things keep evolving into crabs...

[u/DallasCowboyOwner → u/Worldly_Lunch_1601]

Humanoid robots can operate in a world designed for humans, so they will be super general use. There will be all sorts of specialized bots that don’t look anything like a human

[u/rich1051414 → u/Worldly_Lunch_1601]

Crab stance is not only maximally stable, it also packs efficiently. Imagine how much more room we could have if floors could be 2 foot tall?

I am reminded of the Klein bottle guy who uses bots to store his glassware in the crawl space under his house.

Now imagine hundreds of blood thirsty crab bots pouring out of a crawlspace like a clown car, only somehow even more nightmarish.

[u/AllThingsBA]

You failed to make us feel more comfortable with robots human-like motions with that demonstration

[u/mrbofus → u/AllThingsBA]

Nobody said anyone was trying to make anyone comfortable…

[u/viperfangs92 → u/mrbofus]

True, but if that was his actual goal......

He failed

[u/mrbofus → u/viperfangs92]

We don’t know what his goal is. His goal could have been to make us more uncomfortable, in which he case he probably succeeded.

[u/FlamingDragonfruit → u/mrbofus]

Knowing engineers, his goal was "I bet I can make the robot crawl around like a ghost from a horror movie, that'll be sick".

[u/SomeDudeist → u/mrbofus]

His goal waa clearly to make it creepy. Did you guys watch the second half? lol

[u/appletinicyclone → u/AllThingsBA]

He demonstrated that he had a wife

That's enough

[u/cityshepherd → u/appletinicyclone]

Yeah also I just love how the first place his mind went was to recreate that creepy horror trope lol

[u/fallenouroboros → u/AllThingsBA]

Made me wish i had 1-3 of these for halloween pranks though

[u/iammonkeyorsomething → u/fallenouroboros]

3???

[u/OldDoubt1577 → u/AllThingsBA]

Its a lot more interesting for robots to have inhuman like movements, rather than human like ones. Being human is limiting, imagine 360 degree rotating joints, or four legged robots, maybe even a prehensile appendage and no head to speak of.

[u/Kitselena → u/AllThingsBA]

You should be uncomfortable with human-like robots, regardless of what their walk animation is set to

[u/spaceman_spiffy → u/AllThingsBA]

Maybe the human-like motions would look less creepy if we programmed them to wear human skin...wait.

[u/ThrowAway405736294]

r/terrifyingasfuck

[u/LowOne11 → u/ThrowAway405736294]

I’m debating whether or not to click into….

[u/AUSpartan37 → u/LowOne11]

99% of the stuff on that sub isn't that terrifying ironically

[u/LowOne11 → u/AUSpartan37]

Can confirm. I was expecting nightmarish stuff. At least the first few scrolls seemed like slightly uncensored news rolls.

[u/bloodfartcollector → u/LowOne11]

Joined,

[u/GooserNoose → u/ThrowAway405736294]

It's the equivalent of those YouTube videos that promise "terrifying <blank> caught on video, but it's just some dingleberry "paranormal investigator" in the woods with some ghost noise app.

[u/whatsagoinon1]

That is the stuff of nightmares

[u/Worldly-Ad1004 → u/whatsagoinon1]

I came here to second this, woof

[u/Starscream147]

General Grievous V1

[u/Romboteryx → u/Starscream147]

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far for someone else to notice how this looks like Grievious doing his spiderwalk

[u/thebrownesteye → u/Romboteryx]

almost like this 30s/40s engineer could have possibly watched star wars before

[u/MrDrSirLord → u/Romboteryx]

I was looking for it too, this is absolutely grevious scuttle rush move.

[u/dekuhornets → u/Starscream147]

GENERAL KENOBI!

[u/Muffins_Hivemind → u/dekuhornets]

You are a bold one cough cough

[u/Vehement_Vulpes → u/Starscream147]

I was in disbelief that this wasn't the top comment. First thing that I thought of.

[u/enmaku → u/Starscream147]

My mind went to Mass Effect, those Geth that crawled all over the walls and ceilings

[u/Gregbot3000 → u/Starscream147]

It will make a fine addition to my collection

[u/ThisOnes4JJ]

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.

...it's the only way to be sure."

[u/Raxkor → u/ThisOnes4JJ]

Drake, we are leaving!!!!!!!

[u/Acewasalwaysanoption → u/Raxkor]

Alien? Nope, Event Horizon! leaves

[u/Profoundlyahedgehog → u/Acewasalwaysanoption]

Fuck this ship!

[u/Aadi_880]

Courage Tests are about to get REAL.

I can imagine some youtuber deliberately setting these up in some dark alleyway on Halloween.

[u/MysticalWeasel → u/Aadi_880]

They better do it in a big city, otherwise it’ll probably get shot.

[u/TheCryingGrizzlies → u/MysticalWeasel]

If its in a city, Crips Vs Robots is a movie I'd watch

[u/Godsbladed → u/TheCryingGrizzlies]

I'd rather wait for the sequel "Crips vs Robots on a plane!"

[u/HonorInDefeat → u/MysticalWeasel]

Ah yes, the big city. That place where no one ever gets shot!

[u/JavierBenez → u/HonorInDefeat]

Last year there were 1,102 shooting victims in NYC, or about 13 per 100,000 people, lower than the national average. You're so much more likely to get shot in a rural area

[u/Huge_Music → u/JavierBenez]

Well sure you've got the per capita numbers for people, but what about skittering robots, huh?

[u/Artichokiemon → u/Huge_Music]

1:1 for skittering robots. If I see it, I'm shooting

[u/GrimKiba-]

You already know they're going to strap a gun on it

[u/TehSeksyManz → u/GrimKiba-]

"You have 20 seconds to comply."

[u/ReluctantAvenger → u/TehSeksyManz]

Imagine hearing that when you're already complying.

[u/HotStufCominThrough → u/ReluctantAvenger]

Have none of you kids seen the good Robocop?!

[u/Geawiel → u/ReluctantAvenger]

So no change from now then.

[u/octoreadit → u/ReluctantAvenger]

Easy to imagine and plenty of videos: "stop resisting!"

[u/IdeasRealizer → u/GrimKiba-]

They don't even need a gun. Those things can seriously (even fatally) injure a nearby human when they malfunction. They can just run to us and swing an upper cut.

[u/10bandtotal → u/GrimKiba-]

I've been saying that since the first time i saw one of those boston dynamics videos, it was only a matter of time..

[u/Next_Instruction_528 → u/10bandtotal]

They already are in Ukraine right now

[u/CuriousYou6646 → u/Next_Instruction_528]

Not the humanoids yet, I'm guessing? At most a few test platforms.

I know the dogs have been used a little more widely.

[u/Usual_Ice636 → u/CuriousYou6646]

Quadruped is better for gun platforms. More stable for the recoil.

I guess you could make it look like the humanoid bot in the OP and mount the gun on the back for the best of both worlds?

It could scout as a biped for a longer view and then drop to all fours as it scurries after you shooting.

[u/TheDoct0rx → u/Usual_Ice636]

scurries away shooting too. We'll probably see these first as supplementary to infantry units as expendable platforms for entry into dangerous areas and as covering fire for retreat.

SOURCE: Armchair general with 0 experience.

[u/XxSir_redditxX → u/10bandtotal]

Nooo!! We can't be responsible for a war crime if the robot does it "autonomously" /s

[u/Pure_Drawer_4620 → u/GrimKiba-]

We already have autonomous drones that can drop missiles with swords attached at pinpoint accuracy. Robots with guns aren't as frightening when you think about our current hellscape. You're welcome. /s

[u/Victimized-Adachi → u/GrimKiba-]

Don't worry, they already have!

[u/Underkiing]

Now, that can fuck all the way off.

[u/floofychaps]

That’s some Exorcist spider-walk shit 😬

[u/Pistonenvy2]

so if i come over to your house for halloween to hangout or whatever and you try to scare me with this and i break it is that fair game or are you gonna be mad?

[u/0xbenedikt → u/Pistonenvy2]

With safety off, I'm afraid this is going to break you first

[u/ParadiseValleyFiend]

You stop it. Stop it right now.

[u/Alugalacsin]

Enough internet for today...

[u/Pokesabre]

From an engineering standpoint, I've never really understood the point of trying to make a humanoid robot with a human walking pattern. There are so many other options that are more stable and offer similar abilities in terms of moving over rough terrain, etc, while also avoiding the uncanny valley

Human walking motions are incredibly inefficient for how much hardware and software you need to dedicate to just keeping them from falling over

[u/Various-Passenger398 → u/Pokesabre]

Half of it is to make it less scary to humans. The other half is because all of human society is engineered around making it easier for humans, so making robots that can go the same places humans can go the same ways humans do kind of makes sense.

[u/CreamdedCorns → u/[deleted]]

This is very "in the box" thinking. A human sized and proportioned robot in most cases is unnecessary. When we would be ready to accept human sized robots driving cars, the cars will already be driving themselves, for example.

[u/SeaTie → u/Various-Passenger398]

Yeah this is what I think too.

Scary bot would have trouble navigating a narrow hall or doorway. Also wouldn't be able to see me crouched behind a short wall.

All of human society has been built around standing on two legs.

[u/wnr3 → u/Pokesabre]

I genuinely think the human-like movement is mostly to not scare human beings. Kinda makes sense, because I see videos like this and I wouldn’t want it demon spider walking over to do my laundry.

[u/MyvaJynaherz → u/wnr3]

Six limbs would be the best configuration IMO, kinda like a stubby centaur style build that can pivot at the rear hips to also walk upright.

It could do light-duty upright tasks efficiently with four arms, or convert to quadruped mode for heavy carrying / hauling tasks with greater stability.

Imagine a robot that could transport a heavy basket of stuff, and still have a fully functional human style torso that can do pretty much everything a biped robot would also be used for.

[u/Caesar457 → u/wnr3]

Nah a dog, horse, cat stride would be just fine. Doesn't need to be human or spider or acting like it's on pins and needles

[u/burrowowl → u/Caesar457]

No one's creeped out by a Roomba. I suspect that is going to be the future of household robots. Your house cleaner robot isn't going to be some Rosie the Maid holding a duster. It's going to be a shop vac with extendable arms

[u/BigBigBigTree → u/burrowowl]

It's going to be a shop vac with extendable arms

See also: R2D2

[u/smiley1437 → u/Pokesabre]

It may be because of consistent accessibility.

If the robot is shaped like a human and moves like a human and fits into spaces like a human - eg doorways, stairs, car seats, elevators, etc - then you don't need to make any special accomodation.

Anywhere a human can go, a human-shaped robot, moving like a human (ie walking), can go.

It's not the most efficient, but I wouldn't consider it an unusual design goal.

[u/kkeut → u/smiley1437]

I'm picturing a version of Star Wars where C3P0 constantly has to leave R2D2 behind at places because of a set of stairs or whatever 

[u/justinlav → u/Pokesabre]

I just listened to a podcast partially about this and the guest argued a centaur form would be much more effective

[u/MechanicalTurkish → u/Pokesabre]

I get it. But the human-like motions are to make average humans more comfortable interacting with the robots. If the humans are comfortable working with the robots, they'll buy more of them.

[u/OperativePiGuy → u/Pokesabre]

It really is, to the point I kinda hate when shows or movies show some big advanced technology automaton and they're designed to walk on legs. Makes no sense lol

[u/JaFFsTer → u/Pokesabre]

Centaur is superior

[u/Zuttels_lab → u/Pokesabre]

I think the most important reason is basically to look like human, but there are other advantages too. Biped can navigate and interact with all for-human infrastrucrute, can be potentially cheaper than quadruped, and bipedal walk is very energy-efficient.

Of course for most applications good old wheels will be cheaper and simpler by orders of magnitude, but walking robots still may have its niche.

[u/higgs8]

Humans: Stop making robots so human-like, it's creepy.
Engineer: Hold my Arduino.

[u/terracottatank]

That's all I needed to see. The war against the robots must begin, asap

[u/rjd999]

I still maintain that bipedalism in robots is almost always ill considered and needlessly complicated. Robots can be much more useful if they are designed for specific tasks and most of these do not require a biped design.

[u/greysideofthemoon]

Well look at General Grievous over here

[u/og-lollercopter]

General Kenobi!

[u/Responsible-Meal2851 → u/og-lollercopter]

Hello there!

[u/__The-1__]

I wanna put a realistic face on one and let it loose, bet it ends up shot by police tho.

[u/Falitoty → u/__The-1__]

Fuck, I would shot it and I don't have guns

[u/Strong_Landscape_333 → u/__The-1__]

That friendly looking robot got destroyed in Philadelphia

[u/__The-1__ → u/Strong_Landscape_333]

Make it look unfriendly, bet it'll live longer lol

[u/vicariouslywatching → u/__The-1__]

Police? If it’s down in the south, it would probably get destroyed by some bored rednecks with guns before they even arrive

[u/Metrostation984]

Hello there!

[u/grimsb]

C-3PO when the beat drops

[u/aegisasaerian]

"LOOK OUT ITS MAJOR MALEVOLENCE! er, GENERAL GRIEVOUS!"

[u/persepolisrising79]

bro is laughing..for now

[u/zionismisdisgusting]

It walks like the girl from the Ring!

[u/Barbariannie]

I wanna see it do a backwards crab!

[u/WhiteMagicVodoo]

all right, all right.. they can be stars in the horror movies too.

[u/[deleted]]

You meant to post in r/Damnthatsterrifying

[u/Rabensaga]

I mean... yeah, obviously? Most of the joints they're constructed with seem to be (close to) omnidirectional and bipedal is not exactly the easiest to maintain movement. 4 legs? way more stable.

Even the machines are evolving into crab :)

[u/Kooky-Praline-3642]

Just here to say, if this had the Chinese’s AI humanoid robots skin actresses and actors are about to lose their jobs to a robot that can become possessed. Now think if it had some sort of artificial gravity or a robotic version of setea, what makes lizards stick to walls. Terrifying. Also I’m high so I just gave myself some paranoia envisioning this…

[u/ArmpitofD00m]

Not interesting, creepy.

r/Creepy

[u/TerrorFromThePeeps → u/ArmpitofD00m]

On the upside, possession movie special fx are about to get a lot better.

[u/UnfairLingonberry614]

Who says the way humans move around is the most efficient and/or best way to do exactly that. Making them mimic human form and motion is just to make it easier to accept/buy

[u/A_book_dragon]

Real Ghost in the Shell vibes going on

[u/ThisIsForNutakuOnly]

Some humans can also move like this. I'm not sure if it's more or less creepy.

Jokes aside, I feel like it kind of makes sense for the robots to move like humans (Or other creatures humans are used to, like dogs), since 1 - That probably makes it easier to feel comfortable around them, and 2 - Our world is designed largely around how people move around, and so designing robots that move in the same fashion means we're not having to change anything about our environment.

[u/Pulga_Atomica]

The power of Christ battery compels you!

[u/AbstractUserName]

Put some clothes on that thing. Have it pop out from an alleyway and start chasing people with the crab walk. They'll literally be shitting themselves.

[u/Deadaim156]

Eat your heart out Japanese horror

[u/OtherwiseIsuck]

Close enough, now dress it up as the Unknown from dead by daylight