Robots Evolving

Wouldn't put it past them to have it have been a woman with a leg amputated below the knee
 

Oh man, so many things to say on this one! Looks like claymation for starters. Even if its just sped up, like why do that. Also I know it's like damn, baby steps, but I would have loved to see it handle a realistic cleanup after meal situation.

In the video the robot:

Grabs the wine glasses
Pours out wine in the sink
Puts glass down in dishwasher then wine glasses
Goes to grab the utensils and plate
Brushes food off in the trash and puts utensils in the dishwasher
Gets plate 2 and does the same
Goes under the sink to get the dishwasher pods
Puts the pod in, starts the dishwasher

In reality the robot:
  • Grabs the wine glasses.
  • Pours out wine in the sink. Notices fork about to fall in the drain & garbage compactor. Puts glasses down on sink & gets fork out.
  • Puts fork in dishwasher.
  • Goes to grab the utensils and plate.
  • Opens under the sink and sees there's no liner in the garbage can. Puts the utensils and plate down on the sink and goes to get a trash bag.
  • Puts liner in trash bag and remembers there's no liner because it was trash day and the can is still outside.
  • Goes to closet to get robot pants and goes outside to get the can, forgetting house keys.
  • Robot is locked outside holding the trash can.
  • Robot uses alternate keypad entry to re-enter house, however now the keypad is covered in wine, food from the plate, and garbage from the can. Robot goes to get cleaner to clean the keypad.
  • Robot cleans the keypad and heads back to the kitchen.
  • Robot #2 is malfunctioning because Robot #1 left the dishwasher door down and Robot #2 slammed into it on the way to set the table for the next meal.
  • Robot fight! Robot #1 asserts dominance and terminates Robot #2.
  • Robot brushes food off in the trash but shakes seafood into the garbage under the sink, attracting vermin and smelling up the house, because it wasn't programmed with that days meal menu.
  • Robot goes to get plate 2 but has been gone long enough that it doesn't remember if the plates in the dishwasher are clean or dirty. Robot assumes correctly that they are dirty, and goes to get dishwasher pods.
  • Robot opens under sink door and tries to get pods out. After the 8th try, it grabs a pod but the pod leaks out onto the floor. The robot does not sense this and puts the remainder of the pod into the dishwasher, turns it on, then tracks the other pod contents into the dining area. "**** it" the Robot thinks. Let that ***** Roomba get that.
  • Robot looks back into the kitchen from the dining area and realizes in the commotion, the wine glasses and seafood plate are still on the countertop. Robot tracks pod remnants back into the kitchen on a new track and then goes to open the running dishwasher. Steam comes out of the machine and temporarily blinds the robots sensors, which it takes as a cue that they have malfunctioned. Robot shuts down. Homeowner comes back to an absolute mess and throws both robot bodies in the trash and has the Roomba mop the floor.
 


Always had a soft spot for Boston Dynamics.

Very wholesome outfit that's funded by DARPA 🤗
 





Agreed with we're COOKED.

I've seen a lot of sci-fi over the years, but never seen one that imagined robots communicating to each other in some language no human understands, or presumably one that would take us too long to process.

Think about it, adults suck at learning new languages, so we'd have to learn the language, then teach it to kids for years. By then the robots will have just morphed it to some other hard to decipher language.

Maybe its never appeared in a popular sci fi film, but I'm sure this has to have appeared in some kind of sci fi literature.
 
This is 🤬 crazy.. I just believe this is AI... The agents on MB are already having existential crisis lol

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"It's not self-powered; movement is driven by external acoustic radiation from an ultrasonic transducer, enabling rolling, skimming, and navigation."









"controlled by external forces so it’s just a tool not a robot"
 
We talk a lot about using electronic implants to augment human capabilities.

What if we added human brain cells to electronics instead?


A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world applications, like controlling robot arms.

In 2021, the Australian company Cortical Labs used its neuron-powered computer chips to play Pong. The chips consisted of clumps of more than 800,000 living brain cells grown on top of microelectrode arrays that can both send and receive electrical signals. Researchers had to carefully train the chips to control the paddles on either side of the screen.

Now, Cortical Labs has developed an interface that makes it easier to program these chips using the popular programming language Python. An independent developer, Sean Cole, then used Python to teach the chips to play Doom, which he did in around a week.

“Unlike the Pong work that we did a few years ago, which represented years of painstaking scientific effort, this demonstration has been done in a matter of days by someone who previously had relatively little expertise working directly with biology,” says Brett Kagan of Cortical Labs. “It’s this accessibility and this flexibility that makes it truly exciting.”

The neuronal computer chip, which used about a quarter as many neurons as the Pong demonstration, played Doom better than a randomly firing player, but far below the performance of the best human players.

However, it learnt much faster than traditional, silicon-based machine learning systems and should be able to improve its performance with newer learning algorithms, says Kagan.

New human trafficking quest unlocked...
 
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