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04/11/2015 01:09:36 PM · #1 |
I Think I"m posting the link correctly, but if not, perhaps someone will help out.
This is our future, and it is "Spot"
Yes, this is our future |
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04/11/2015 01:40:50 PM · #2 |
| I found the kicking gratuitous. |
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04/11/2015 01:56:01 PM · #3 |
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04/11/2015 02:13:09 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by tnun:
I found the kicking gratuitous. |
Yes. "Spot" seemed so real, and the reaction was so, well, normal
for a kicked critter that I cringed too.
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04/11/2015 05:17:47 PM · #5 |
| There was something very amusing about the two of them running side by side in the car park that made me chuckle! |
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04/11/2015 05:24:08 PM · #6 |
| Wow, that's super cool. Something about the way it marches is just creepy. Near the end I presume that was a gas powered model? Imagine it with a big-block supercharged V8, and about 5 times as big??? The stuff of nightmares. |
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04/11/2015 05:58:52 PM · #7 |
| The kicking was indeed gratuitous, but think of it as a harbinger of its future endeavors on the battlefield of a fast-approaching tomorrow. |
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04/11/2015 07:57:21 PM · #8 |
more than gratuitous, the kicking. there was a time when men (yes, men) thought nature was pure mechanism, that is, that creatures other than man had no feelings, and they did bad (gratuitous) things to celebrate this feat (!) of reason. so for someone or anyone like me who attempts to plumb history for clues to our inhumanity, those kicks evoke a certain horror.
not that I am a Findhornian, but I do believe in at least respecting the possibility that some kind of force resides in a machine ... I remember talking to my bicycle when I had trouble re-attaching a loose chain in the middle of nowhere.
they are somehow beautiful those 4 legged creations, and slightly frightening to think about. no, I would not kick them. |
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04/11/2015 09:03:09 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by tnun:
more than gratuitous, the kicking. there was a time when men (yes, men) thought nature was pure mechanism, that is, that creatures other than man had no feelings, and they did bad (gratuitous) things to celebrate this feat (!) of reason. so for someone or anyone like me who attempts to plumb history for clues to our inhumanity, those kicks evoke a certain horror.
not that I am a Findhornian, but I do believe in at least respecting the possibility that some kind of force resides in a machine ... I remember talking to my bicycle when I had trouble re-attaching a loose chain in the middle of nowhere.
they are somehow beautiful those 4 legged creations, and slightly frightening to think about. no, I would not kick them. |
Now you've got me looking up another new word: Findhornian. And yes, I also have talked to various 'inanimate' objects on the way to an amicable agreement between us.
Boston Dynamics has just been purchased by Google, btw.
Soon, we should start a thread: "Google Gobbles" |
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04/11/2015 10:37:54 PM · #10 |
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04/12/2015 07:49:22 AM · #11 |
we're they're just one step closer...
i wonder if the video was shot by/from another bot, or by a person.
i wonder how long before they evolve from walking on all fours to walking on two legs.
i wonder how long before they start mating replicating themselves. |
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04/12/2015 08:46:32 AM · #12 |
The kicking was just a shove to show the stability programming, which is just amazing.
Message edited by author 2015-04-12 08:46:49. |
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04/12/2015 11:08:41 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by Mike:
The kicking was just a shove to show the stability programming, which is just amazing. |
That's the way I saw it also... |
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04/12/2015 01:34:44 PM · #14 |
surely they have better more sophisticated ways of measuring/testing stability?
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04/12/2015 02:36:30 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by Mike:
The kicking was just a shove to show the stability programming, which is just amazing. |
That's the way I saw it also... |
They go to some lengths to make the devices appear to be sentient, and then kick the daylights out of one of them.
Yup, amazing. |
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04/12/2015 09:19:43 PM · #16 |
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