I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

[AZRedhawk44]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3431444/Worlds-first-robot-marathon-begins.html

The one that picks itself back up after falling down scares me.

The one that does the Final Fantasy-style action poses at the end of the video TERRIFIES me.   

Video link:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/video/news/3417515/Robot-marathon.html

[Gowen]

The one that responds with "F___ you, A__hole!" worries me the most.

[Doggy Daddy]

As long as I see people with joysticks controlling the robots, I am not impressed.  When the robots become the ones holding the joysticks, THEN I'll be worried.


DD

[vaskidmark]

As long as I see people with joysticks controlling the robots, I am not impressed.  When the robots become the ones holding the joysticks, THEN I'll be worried.


DD

Make them bigger, able to deal with real-world obstacles, put laser packs on their shoulders, and merely having a joystick is no longer the greatest worry.  But when the robot has "Johnny 5" on his name tag I'm calling us all toast.

stay safe.

[AJ Dual]

As long as I see people with joysticks controlling the robots, I am not impressed.  When the robots become the ones holding the joysticks, THEN I'll be worried.


DD

You obviously missed the DARPA challenge a few years back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2AcMnfzpNg

Also, youtube videos for "Big Dog".

The Japanese seem to have a cultural fixation on visually appealing humanoid robots. (Although I admit there's a bit of pragmatism to it, for their overwhelming need for nursing/elder-care) TRULY autonomous operation and on-the-fly navigation through random uncontrolled environments is present in the Japanese efforts, but is always kind of on the periphery, or back-burner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoCJTYgYB0

Cutting edge American efforts seem to go for more pragmatic forms, and stress autonomy and hierarchies of reflexive behavior which start to provide emergent properties of self-determination.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-AGWq0k_Mo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOD5NF48byo&feature=relmfu

The CRUSHER has a fully autonomous mode, and a high degree of obstacle avoidance and navigation. And will try multiple paths with only general "goal oriented" inputs.

And while the Japanese tend to put cosmetic mecha-looking armor on some of their robots, the U.S. has a tendency to put guns, bombs, and Hellfire missiles on ours. 

[Perd Hapley]

The one that does the Final Fantasy-style action poses at the end of the video TERRIFIES me.   

You mean We Love Osaka? He was stretching, because it was a race. You fraidy-cat.