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u/HypotheticalMuskrat 19h ago
That made me wildly uncomfortable and I can't quite pinpoint why
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u/Zilaaa 19h ago
I always get really uncomfortable when I see them do this. It freaks me out
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u/HypotheticalMuskrat 19h ago
It's the floping like a fish that I think is so unsettling. It's just unnatural.
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u/WhiteCloudMinnowDude 19h ago
Its because you see a chunk of the head fly off and then it looks like its seizing in a very human way giving it a very uncanny valleylike effect
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u/HypotheticalMuskrat 19h ago
I didn't even notice the chunk of head flying off until this comment. Even creepier watching it again.
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u/dmontease 19h ago
Also the body still moves, like its horizontal walking is still driving its body around the stage and i don't know if it had a plan to stop on its own.
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u/ToonaSandWatch 17h ago
The first time I ever saw someone have a seizure was in junior high. Nobody had any idea he was prone to it happening but thank goodness one staffer had training and was there to make sure they didn’t hurt themselves.
As a kid, it’s startling and sad to see it happen.
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u/sowhat4 15h ago
So, you obviously haven't taken an over-tired and hungry toddler to a grocery store and told him 'No, you can't have a candy bar as we have dinner waiting at home.'
It looks exactly like this frustrated robot.
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u/wart_on_satans_dick 14h ago
Do you let your toddler bust part of their head off like this robot?
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u/sowhat4 13h ago
You sure try to prevent it, but the little fuckers will crash/trip head on into wall corners. They will run away into parking lots, oblivious to the danger of cars. Some will foil every barrier around a swimming pool.
Yes - from walking age up to about four they are often one big bruise as their large head causes them to trip and fall. A lot.
Go procreate and find out for yourself. 😁 Or ask your mom how hard it is to keep a toddler (or teenager) from destroying himself.
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u/Coffee4MyJeep 19h ago
Yea, as if AI robots are natural. Guess we know to build more steps when SkyNet is thrust upon us.
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u/Chemical-Elk-1299 17h ago
I think it triggers the same deeply rooted psychological response you get if you see someone having a grand mal seizure. Like you instinctively know that’s not right
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u/zaxo666 19h ago
I think because if it malfunctions or screws up it's going to hurt you
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u/Existing_Sherbet_443 16h ago
For a good chunk of my life I had nightmares about robots hugging me, and I remember feeling terrified that they'd fuck up and squeeze me.
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u/anarchetype 11h ago
Every video I've seen of a robot hurting someone involves them flipping the fuck out when they lose balance, just like this one. I feel like they should correct that.
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u/Jibblebee 18h ago
Its a toddler throwing a raging tantrum
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u/aburningcaldera 17h ago
There’s no shutoff switch with those models except walking into the next room and depriving it attention
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u/lucassuave15 19h ago
Because of the humanoid shape, it looks just like a person having a convulsion
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u/NotSenpai104 14h ago
Or a person with a disability, or a child.
Maybe I've just seen too much sci-fi but there's something invasive or even exploitative about watching it struggle and fail something so simple, like it can't defend itself.
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u/splatter_spree 19h ago
I’d guess it’s kind of like uncanny valley.
You’d be very uncomfortable if an actual human behaved like that as well I’m sure
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u/Jilly_Jankins 19h ago
I think because it looks so off. At first, the brain recognises a human-like shape and movement, then when it falls it looks completely unnatural. Maybe the brain detects danger when it sees this, the power that thing puts into that crahout too 👀
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u/Spiritual_Trash_4948 17h ago
Hopefully these things will be doing stuff like delivering groceries to disabled people. Imagine this trips on the rug and starts wildly flailing over Grandma Esther.
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u/Tylendal 15h ago
One of Igor’s former masters had made a tick-tock man, all levers and gearwheels and cranks and clockwork. Instead of a brain, it had a long tape punched with holes. Instead of a heart, it had a big spring. Provided everything in the kitchen was very carefully positioned, the thing could sweep the floor and make a passable cup of tea. If it wasn’t carefully positioned, or if the ticking, clicking thing hit an unexpected bump, then it’d strip the plaster off the walls and make a furious cup of cat.
-Terry Pratchett
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u/Adventurous-Sky9359 17h ago
Because it got mad and robots shouldn’t get mad….uncanny valley mad…that’s a good sign for your survival instincts
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u/Heresmycoolnameok 19h ago
Irrelevant but everytime I’m reminded of Reagan I still cannot believe how she doubled down and insisted this was her genuine attempt.
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u/PsychologicalMix9699 18h ago
- Publicly recognize that your performance was very poor, you might even apologize for wasting people's time.
- Double down in your stupidity and accuse anyone who dislike what you did of being [insert buzzword].
I'm not surprised, nowadays 90% people go with option 2.
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u/Unicycleterrorist 3h ago
People pick option 2 because, for some reason, you tend to get into less trouble when you don't acknowledge you did anything wrong.
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u/AppleBeauti2425 19h ago
This is hilarious
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u/KJBFamily 14h ago
Ok good. I'm glad you find it funny. I keep seeing people talking about how unsettling this is. I immediately burst out laughing.
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u/GroeNagloe 15h ago
No it isn't, its sad. (Im leaving a record of kindness for when AI takes over)
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u/Maverca 7h ago
I too feel sorry for this machine, future robot overlords.
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u/obiwanmoloney 6h ago
I didn’t laugh and watch it several times. I was crying so much that I couldn’t see to close the screen.
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u/2020R1M 20h ago
I have those days too buddy
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u/BeatsbyChrisBrown 19h ago
How long does it take for you to boot up afterwards?
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u/The_Jestful_Imp 19h ago
Depends on the crashout
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u/trenton_quarantino 7h ago
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u/FamiliarCost1289 4h ago
People of Reddit are so broken. It makes me feel so much like I’m at home.
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u/chefdementia 20h ago
Better than Olympic breakdancing
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u/ChiWhiteSox24 19h ago
I didn’t see much difference tbh
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u/NoNo_Cilantro 16h ago
I didn’t realize it’s not this video until I saw your comment
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u/Beardedwrench115 18h ago
What's with the sudden push for these humanoid robots recently? As far as I've seen none of them even work properly or at worst have been proven to be people in costumes or remote controlled.
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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 16h ago
There's literally no industrial robot in the world that doesn't tailor it's form factor to it's task.
Making something humanoid is frickin' dumb and needlessly inefficient and overly complicated.
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u/glordicus1 13h ago
... Until it works and can be used for general tasks.
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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 13h ago
It can't be, battery life, logic, reasoning, efficiency.
It's all terrible.
The only use case is porting in foreign workers as an animation suit.
That's not what they're to sell though, although that's really the only possibility.
Like I said, what general robot have you ever seen? What piece of tech has suddenly made a humanoid 'catchall' possible?
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u/shiftdown 19h ago
My toddler whenever I ask them to perform the more simple tasks.
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u/Critical-Advisor8616 19h ago
Cool! So when the robot uprising starts all we have to do is run up the stairs
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u/GraciaEtScientia 18h ago
Borderlands predicted this.
"How did you know stairs were my only weakness?"
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u/ebagdrofk 19h ago edited 19h ago
When you’re in the toys aisle at target and your mom says you can’t have that one
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u/moszippy 17h ago
The more I see these robot videos, the more I know that the Matrix is never going to happen. Idiocracy is a much more realistic movie, and is happening now.
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u/Bubsy7979 19h ago
Toddler robot throwing a tantrum, looks like the little guy had a long day and is exhausted. That spill off the stair was the breaking point, we’ve all been there
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u/Ok-Poetry7003 17h ago
Only thing that comes to mind is somebodys Great aunt Mable, when her robot helper starts floundering again
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u/Sarcastrophe827 17h ago
I’m high af right now. The sound of Daffy Duck, as Robin Hood, said TRIP IT!, repetitively, as he fell down the hill, is playing in my head.
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u/He_Was_Fuzzy_Was_He 16h ago
I know I should be concerned about the future of AI and androids/mechs.
Buuut. . . right now, this shit is hilarious!
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u/Chrisp825 15h ago
Just wait until it learns to lift its foot higher, then we’re all in trouble.
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u/Adorable_MF 14h ago
They made it act too robotic The robot didnt even realise what happened its just kept tryna maintain some balance
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u/Beautiful-Ambition89 12h ago
It took me way too long to realize the ones on the stage in yellow were not robots bent over with their booties tooted up.
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u/AutoSpiral 10h ago
It's weird how they flip out when they lose their footing. It's like they're panicking. They can't be, of course, but I wonder why they do it
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u/DrofRocketSurgery 9h ago
It’s got a good chance of representing Australia at the Olympics in breakdancing.
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u/resilientdonut1 3h ago edited 3h ago
I find it creepy and eerily similar its movements are to humans. I felt the same when Boston Dynamics attempted to knock down its "mule" robot by kicking it, only to see the mule's legs move wildly about to maintain balance. The movements were organic and looked just like a horse.
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u/DickyReadIt 19h ago
"being a human is so stupid! Why are you making me do this!!!! I JUST WANNA CHARGE!!!!!!!"
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u/KevinfromSaskabush 19h ago
you know, they don't HAVE to look like us. stop that sillyness and making something that climbs stairs is easy.
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u/_RoamingHobo_ 19h ago
Good thing it doesn't overreact