Chinese robot tries to dance like Michael Jackson
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FunnyI know i dont know shit about robotics but really the absolute first thing they need to do is have a robot that can stand up after falling down. It's how humans learn to walk and it's really a prequisite to walking in general. You just shouldn't walk if you can't get up, that's why babies crawl until they learn to stand up from the floor.
Almost assuredly it can, I think it broke or went into a failsafe or something.
penal! ahahaha
How amazing is that recovery after the first stumble?
Somewhere between more amazing than falling over and less amazing than being able to climb stairs.
I imagine it wasn't trained for these lighting conditions and a monotone grey floor. But funny nonetheless.
I’m imagining most robots like this will be goose-stepping instead of dancing, so the inability to dance is probably not a big deal.
Apparently we stop the impending robot army by just putting up some steps at the border.
Dances like my cousin after drinking tequila
It did better than I woulda.
I love that the guy who shame-drags the clanker out of there is giving hints of moonwalking himself.
I mean if he did this clip would be all over the place.
Honestly, there was a short time where I thought the prat fall might have been an intentional bit… then it just lay there and eventually the guy shows up to drag it off stage lol.
The comedic timing on the song is fantastic lol
If it was me falling over the steps in a dance performance, I'd stay down after the second time too.
Sometimes you just have to let gravity win
Gravity indeed.
Comedian Fred Berry, the guy who played Rerun from "What's Happening", came with headliner Pauly Shore at a stand-up show in my hometown back in like 2000. Famous for his high voice, high energy, and red beret - he accidentally walked right off the frontend of the stage mid-set. He was portly, so it wasn't graceful. He continues the rest of his set in the pit until he introduces Pauly on stage -- to which Pauly books it top speed and jumps in after him.
MC: Would you 2 fools get outta there!
Pauly: No. We like down here!
Rerun: We've accepted our fate. It's closer to hell down here.
Pauly: Trust me, I'd be easier if you just bring everyone into the pit.
The robot was once again defeated by its arch nemesis STAIRS
Around 12.000 people are killed by stairs each year in the US alone. And so many more injured. Stairs are a menace!
One day they will attach guns to stairs, and where will we be???!!!!
Cars say those are amateur numbers
This is perfect drunk dancing strategy. If some stairs sneak up on you while you're getting in your groove, retreat to safe ground and recover dignity, before taking on the stairs directly for the final victory. Magnificent.
You laugh now, but you'll remember these days fondly when the robot simply fell down instead of getting up and moonwalking while spraying bullets
"You know, I was Dancing Robot Michael Jackson once."
"Yes, I saw. You were doing well until you flopped around and died."
I dunno about Michael Jackson, but he's perfected the drunk uncle at a wedding.
Would that be druncle, or drunkle?
That's still pretty impressive, especially the first recovery.
Surprisingly well, yeah. And looks a lot more lightweight than I imagined.
Much better than musk's that couldn't even walk
Which makes the poor thing dying at the end very unsettling.
So many people are talking and so focused on AI that everyone's been missing the robotics.
My husband has been showing me videos every week of robots from Japan, China, etc. Robotics has advanced insanely fast last few years.
Meh. Hard to feel excited about it. Humanoid robotics absolutely will not be beneficial for humanity in the current socioeconomic system. Best case is it spies on us and subverts democracy, worst case is it skullfucks people in impoverished nations to steal their land and resources.
Ultimately, no it won't be beneficial but late stage capitalism is going to fuck us one way or the other with or without robotics.
Its still coming and where its at now is undeniably impressive.
The most beneficial uses on a more micro level however which I agree with are jobs that are dangerous to humans. I mean we have used robots for space and deep sea exploration forever (super neat drive).
Warehouse jobs are also dangerous due to risks of acute and chronic injuries. Humanoid robots are 100% going to make it there. In an ideal world our future would be Star Trek but to your point it will be more like Alien universe.
Are humanoid robots really the best choice? Seems like robot forklifts (exist), robot pallet jacks (exist), and some kind of box grabber arm would be more efficient. I've always thought that humanoid robots were being worked on just for thr challenge and the fun/spectacle factor (and I guess investor hype in the case of Musk).
I'm more worried about the global backslide into authoritarianism than capitalism.
Fair.
I'm more worried about the crater than the asteroid
That implies that only capitalism leads to a global backslide into authoritarianism which is historically very inaccurate. The rise of capitalism took power away from the crowns and the nobility like no other system ever has.
Sees an asteroid hurtling toward earth
don't worry about that, the real problem is craters, which is caused by unicorns
Asteroid getting closer
Fucking unicorns creating disinfo about the cause of craters. Asteroids are indifferent and couldn't be responsible for catastrophe, proving craters are caused by unicorns
Society becomes divided into two camps, an asteroid cult and people trying to stop the asteroid
the asteroid cult are a bunch of loons but the anti asteroid people are falling for unicorn propaganda, therefore are themselves morally equivalent to malicious unicorns
Asteroid hits earth, leaving a giant crater
Fucking anti asteroiders and their shitty craters.
Can’t annihilate the human race without Cylons.
That was my thought. Like actually very close to making it through the recovery
And then went full Ashley Simpson.
(I'm pretty sure I've seen you write a rather fascinating tirade about how Ashley was the victim in all this, and I'm frankly trying to trigger you so that I can read it again.)
LEAVE ASHLEY ALONE!!1! 🫠🙃🤪😭
Yeah, much more impressive than these choreographed performances.
You need to understand... regaining stability on a PERFECTLY FLAT AND PREDICTABLE surface is not new nor novel for robotics.
Oh gosh, you're absolutely right. That was in no way impressive at all, and I should never have brought it up. Can you ever forgive me?
Your sarcasm only proves how absolutely pathetic you and everyone else's understanding of robotics is.
So that's a "no" on forgiveness?
Sounds like something a robot would say 🤔
Considering I'm shitting on the robots, that only further proves my point that ya'll are brainless morons merely voting down that which you understand. Sad.
Holy fuck guys we found him. It's the guy that's been going around shitting on people's robots
ya'll are brainless morons merely voting down that which you understand.
Say again?
My dude, your username is literally "LurkingLuddite" and you're doing exactly what a luddite that is lurking would do. You might as well be a bot* at that point lol
Your inability to grasp reality is both pathetic and hilarious
Given the complexity of the performance, and a clear miscalculation, which it was initially able to recover from, would say you're not giving it enough credit.
No. It only recovered when it stumbled back into a flat area. That OBVIOUSLY demonstrates that it's too stupid to deal with dynamic terrain.
Ok, you disrespect it now, but if you put a couple of M-249 saws on its arms, would you respect it then?
No
On two legs? After stumbling? That was impressive few years back on four legs (the robodogs).
To be fair, Spot (which I assume is the kind of robodog you were talking about) is already a decade old
At first I was like "Oh shit, it didn't completely eat shit on the stairs" and then it ended up completely eating shit the second time it got near the stairs. 🤣
The guy missed the opportunity to moonwalk while dragging the robot out
The guy missed the opportunity to moonwalk while dragging the robot out
Witty comments like these belong to the few reasons I still log onto the Web from time to time.
The long pause where its just laying there with the lights still going and whatnot just sends me for some reason.
he ded
Ended up in the peter griffin fall pose.
That's going to be a very nice robot army. 🤣
Oh no, STAAAAAAAAAAAIRS -- Claptrap
Tripping.
The way its head tilts forward after the first stumble, it almost makes it look embarrassed. Very nearly made me feel bad for laughing as hard as I did.
Why did they let it dance so close to the steps? Was it supposed to walk up?
Nah, the routine was not supposed to veer in that direction. Everyone lauding this as a win do not understand how simple these robots are.
This was supposed to be nothing but a vapid PR event that sold an image that is still not possible by consumer-grade robotics.
That's a simplistic and reductive look at what's happening here. The speed with which they're improving is insane. How long before they can build themselves? The speed of improvement would assume only a few years. You're mocking it for failing a dance done by one of the best dancers in human history. It's like saying that AI can't compete with usain Bolt, Tom Hanks, Nolan Ryan, Tom Brady, George Patton, Leonardo devinci, etc. yeah it can't beat the best of the best yet, but it's not that far off.
That dancing robot is better than most people, even taking the fail. Robots beat runners on a recent marathon.
It's being mocked for its inability to deal with stairs.
Daleks have been able to do that since the late 1980s.
Pretty sure since the 60's
Iirc, it's Remembrance of the Daleks (1988) where we see one hover up some stairs for the first time.
How long before they can build themselves?
Centuries.
We have had robots in factories since the 70's putting one tiny part each on a large assembly. Getting a humanoid robot to build itself is a gargantuan task. Tasking one of these to do any kind of intricate assembly right now would see it freak out and smash everything in the room.
Improving is insane for what you have seen.
Not for what is possible or what has been done already.
I’m pretty sure the step was part of the original routine.
Robby are you ok, are you ok Robby!?
the comedic timing is simply impeccable
Well it danced like him on propofol...
Robo-bro died of embarrassment
where is the blanket of shame they used in a similar situation in Russia
You know Michel Jackson was good when even the Chinese can't make a knock-off of him.
Poor thing was staired to death.
I cannot wait for my boss to try to replace me with one of these.
/s
That was still impressive, I can't do it better.
Don't let it near the kids
Something about the way its shins clack with the music the first time is killing me
That is pure gold! Also way better than I can do, lol.
I'm reporting this because I'm in this video and I don't like it 🤣
Leave it to the Chinese to make such technological achievement seem cheap.
I've yet to see these things to something useful.
