Boston Dynamics robots dance better than you in unsettling music video

C-FOX.com ^ | December 30, 2020 | Josh K. Elliott

[Twotone]

Boston Dynamics robots can do a lot more than run these days: they can mash potato, they can do the twist and they can dance (hopefully not on our graves after the uprising).

The Massachusetts-based robotics company shot to the top of the YouTube charts this week with a spectacular — and slightly unsettling — new music video, which shows its highly mobile robots dancing to Do You Love Me by The Contours.

The video shows off the tech firm’s impressive achievements in artificial intelligence, including the ability to make a robot dance better than a drunk human at a wedding. The comparison isn’t even close.

“Our whole crew got together to celebrate the start of what we hope will be a happier year,” the Waltham, Mass.-based company wrote on YouTube.

The nearly three-minute video starts with a bipedal Atlas robot jumping, shuffling and hopping around to the music. Its movements are smooth, precise and on beat — just like Patrick Swayze’s in Dirty Dancing.

[FreedomPoster]

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

Seriously, when these things become sentient, we are screwed.

[Truthoverpower]

Here’s my famous quote about robots

Called “ let me know when a robot can do my job”

I’m just a regular old contractor guy , who gets up at seven , drive somewhere , do some work

Here’s a short list of things I Gotta do most days, and I’d love to see any robot do any of them. I know computers is smart ( southern joke ).

but they can’t really do what human beings can do

Like

1- Secure a 32 foot ladder onto the roof of a vehicle

2- Put said ladder off of the roof at jobsite ; and secure to building and roof search for safe travel up and down by employees

3- Manage employees ; keep them busy ; tell them what to do ; Keep them from fighting with each other or wasting time and keep an eye on them and their work

4- Figure out on your own who are the most valuable employees ; and work who can be trusted without you around

5- Take an electrical panel out of the wall - disconnect all of the circuits - figure out how you’re going to put the new one on the wall ; and look pretty !!!

6- put the new service on the wall ; seal it ; reconnect all of the circuits

7- Meet the inspector and pass inspection

So soon as Aruba can do any one of those seven things and I can come up with another 50 or 60 in about 10 minutes

for instance. swim across a pond

I’ll give computers that they’re very very smart

but agile? Not really

[hal ogen]

The government isn’t putting many tons of taxpayer money into developing these just for them to “dance”. Terminator in your future???

[proxy_user]

Ha! They had robots in the 50s who could dance better than me.

[mewzilla]

Hey, at least they don’t say “By your command”.

[Twotone]

A friend had posted this on Facebook. He noted: I don’t think this is what Skynet had in mind.

[PubliusMM]

Yeah, it’s all fun and games until Skynet becomes self-aware...

[dfwgator]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

TERMINATOR prototype from 1963...Twilight Zone “In His Image.”

https://d22blwhp6neszm.cloudfront.net/35/345395/image_400x300.png

[mewzilla]

I want a space ocelot.

[BeauBo]

“when these things become sentient, we are screwed”

Long before they are sentient, they will be covertly loaded with spyware, to monitor and manipulate us - like our smart phones and web browsers are already.

The people behind the scenes can be the real problem.

[antidemoncrat]

Yeah, that dancing isn’t far from the moves they would make having a weapon and attacking a person.

[Vendome]

Come with me if you want to live...

[Colorado Doug]

Did someone say having a weapon? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RIHnK0_NE

[LizzieD]

There’s a coffee mug for you:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N2PT5DP?ref=myi_title_dp

[SoCal Pubbie]

Ever hear the old story of John Henry the “steel-driving man?”There was a time when track was laid by hand because no machine could do it. Robots that do all the things you listed are coming. Robots that don’t take breaks or stop working after eight hours. Maybe not this year, or next, but it will happen.

[bgill]

They can’t hold a candle to cousin Patrick.

[fidelis]

If you ever saw me dance, “dancing better than me” isn’t exactly an impressive feat.

[CapnJack]

No, they were not created for dancing ... that is just a publicity stunt to "comfort the public".

Their real mission will be ...