Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”

• masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and a few thousand of these things come marching along.

  You do understand how expensive and impractical that would be, right? Training a thousand 18-year olds to handle anti-material rifles is going to be far, far cheaper than doing maintenance on a hundred of these robots.

  Or you’re protesting the party in power, so a few hundred of these automated

  You don’t need humanoid robots for that.

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  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also battery life, You can give a human a couple of sandwiches and they’ll go all day, the robot probably needs a 20kg battery and still won’t go more than 8 hours without charging. Its actually one of the kind of mindblowing things about organic systems, A whole human body runs on less power than just the control unit for one of these robots (assuming its similar to a mid range laptop) let alone the motors.

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    • masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have a very simple test for these things when it comes to military stuff - would this or that piece of tech have proved an obstacle to the NLF (you know… that organisation people insist on calling the "Viet Cong)?

      And the answer for this robot is… only if the objective was to provide them with lots of fancy scrap metal.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait how many Kcal does a laptop burn a day?

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      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Its based on a rough calculation, a humans energy consumption averages to about a 126w supply, a mid range laptop uses about 150w. Admitedly a humans energy consumption is going to change a lot moment to moment but then so is the robots.

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  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Expensive and impractical today, yes. But we would say the same of every man, woman, and child having a supercomputer with the entirety of human knowledge in their pocket fifty years ago.

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