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June 8, 2015 9:33 AM Subscribe
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posted by griphus at 9:37 AM on June 8, 2015 [11 favorites]
posted by griphus at 9:37 AM on June 8, 2015 [11 favorites]
Now I am sad about robot-teasing videos -- it's not the robots' fault their creators fucked up!
I am also reminded of the old maxim to never anthropomorphize computers -- they hate that.
posted by Celsius1414 at 9:39 AM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
I am also reminded of the old maxim to never anthropomorphize computers -- they hate that.
posted by Celsius1414 at 9:39 AM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
god it's like watching a college rugby team try to get back inside their dorm rooms after a post-game celebration
posted by specialagentwebb at 9:41 AM on June 8, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by specialagentwebb at 9:41 AM on June 8, 2015 [9 favorites]
How QWOP-esque!
posted by unknowncommand at 9:44 AM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by unknowncommand at 9:44 AM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they build SkyNet, then you win.
posted by gwint at 9:50 AM on June 8, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by gwint at 9:50 AM on June 8, 2015 [6 favorites]
Is this the trailer for Terminator 5 ?
posted by Poldo at 9:53 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Poldo at 9:53 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
So I think I've said elsewhere on MetaFilter, probably multiple times, that fictional pratfalls/real-life people falling down once I realize they aren't hurt is one of the easiest ways to make me laugh.
Outsourcing this to the robots TOTALLY WORKED.
I will obviously be first up against the wall after the robot revolution.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:54 AM on June 8, 2015 [16 favorites]
Outsourcing this to the robots TOTALLY WORKED.
I will obviously be first up against the wall after the robot revolution.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:54 AM on June 8, 2015 [16 favorites]
Time-traveling viral marketing to get us to love our future robot overlords.
posted by resurrexit at 9:59 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by resurrexit at 9:59 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
The falling mode where their lower leg remains vertical while they just bend at the knee and fall backward is so very un-human.
posted by BrashTech at 10:04 AM on June 8, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by BrashTech at 10:04 AM on June 8, 2015 [3 favorites]
Ministry of Silly Walks Testing Grounds.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 10:07 AM on June 8, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 10:07 AM on June 8, 2015 [6 favorites]
This was surely orchestrated by Boston Dynamics to lull us into complacency and distract us from the horrors of WildCat, BigDog, Petman, and Spot (note the kicking scenes at 0:22 and then 0:28, which was the exact moment in reviewing the video that Ultron decided to exterminate humanity).
posted by straight at 10:19 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by straight at 10:19 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Ministry of Silly Walks Testing Grounds.
I was thinking more Upper Class Twit('s Robot) of the Year
More like DERPA, amirite?
posted by Sys Rq at 10:23 AM on June 8, 2015 [15 favorites]
I was thinking more Upper Class Twit('s Robot) of the Year
More like DERPA, amirite?
posted by Sys Rq at 10:23 AM on June 8, 2015 [15 favorites]
I feel sorry for these robots and want to help them become better robots. Please take note of that, Mr. Basilisk.
posted by lagomorphius at 10:31 AM on June 8, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by lagomorphius at 10:31 AM on June 8, 2015 [6 favorites]
It will be kind of fun to see videos from this same challenge (or type of challenge) over the next few years just to see where they started from vs. where they are then.
Like being at the Air and Space museum and realizing that we went for tens of thousands of years being stuck on the ground, then you can see the Wright flyer, turn left out of the exhibit and touch a piece of the eff'ing moon that we brought back a scant fifty years after we first invented powered flight.
posted by VTX at 10:32 AM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
Like being at the Air and Space museum and realizing that we went for tens of thousands of years being stuck on the ground, then you can see the Wright flyer, turn left out of the exhibit and touch a piece of the eff'ing moon that we brought back a scant fifty years after we first invented powered flight.
posted by VTX at 10:32 AM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
The soundtrack needs gravitas befitting our robot overlords.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 10:34 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Ogre Lawless at 10:34 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Here's another good one. I'm not sure what the robot was trying to accomplish, but it seems to surrender at the end.
posted by exogenous at 10:36 AM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by exogenous at 10:36 AM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
Sometimes Youtube comments are really on point. e.g.
DERPA
posted by leotrotsky at 10:42 AM on June 8, 2015 [7 favorites]
DERPA
posted by leotrotsky at 10:42 AM on June 8, 2015 [7 favorites]
So as Alex Tabarrok reminds us, walking robots are now where self-driving cars were in 2004, when DARPA held a similar contest. So in about 10 years expect breathless predictions of androids being right around the corner, even though they will only be able to walk proficiently under extremely controlled conditions.
posted by Cash4Lead at 10:44 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Cash4Lead at 10:44 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
It will be kind of fun to see videos from this same challenge (or type of challenge) over the next few years just to see where they started from vs. where they are then.
I went to the first DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004, which was the the desert race featuring autonomous cars. The "winner" was Sandstorm, CMU's autonomous Humvee, which got through all of 5% of the 150 mile course before it got stuck and literally burst into flames. It seemed like half the vehicles couldn't get out of the starting area. Here's a video I took of Ghostrider, and this DARPA video shows more starts.
The very next year, all but one of the 23 finalists made it further than Sandstorm, and 5 completed the entire course.
The next challenge was in 2007, the DARPA Urban Challenge, which was a huge step up in difficulty: Vehicles had to navigate in an "urban" setting, obeying traffic signs, navigating intersections, and avoiding other crewed and autonomous vehicles on the road. 6 teams finished the 60 mile course, we saw the first collision in the world between two autonomous cars, and the basic idea of the Google driverless car was in place. Sebastian Thrun, whose team won the 2005 contest and placed 2nd in the 2007 Urban Challenge, went to Google to lead their driverless car effort. Autonomous cars have been predicted to have a $1.3 trillion impact in the United States alone by 2030.
The DARPA robotics challenges are filled with hilarious fails, but you should take them seriously.
posted by jjwiseman at 10:50 AM on June 8, 2015 [12 favorites]
I went to the first DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004, which was the the desert race featuring autonomous cars. The "winner" was Sandstorm, CMU's autonomous Humvee, which got through all of 5% of the 150 mile course before it got stuck and literally burst into flames. It seemed like half the vehicles couldn't get out of the starting area. Here's a video I took of Ghostrider, and this DARPA video shows more starts.
The very next year, all but one of the 23 finalists made it further than Sandstorm, and 5 completed the entire course.
The next challenge was in 2007, the DARPA Urban Challenge, which was a huge step up in difficulty: Vehicles had to navigate in an "urban" setting, obeying traffic signs, navigating intersections, and avoiding other crewed and autonomous vehicles on the road. 6 teams finished the 60 mile course, we saw the first collision in the world between two autonomous cars, and the basic idea of the Google driverless car was in place. Sebastian Thrun, whose team won the 2005 contest and placed 2nd in the 2007 Urban Challenge, went to Google to lead their driverless car effort. Autonomous cars have been predicted to have a $1.3 trillion impact in the United States alone by 2030.
The DARPA robotics challenges are filled with hilarious fails, but you should take them seriously.
posted by jjwiseman at 10:50 AM on June 8, 2015 [12 favorites]
Laugh it up, people. Laugh it up.
posted by etc. at 11:11 AM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by etc. at 11:11 AM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
The robots will take everything else, but they'll never get our humour. WE WIN!
posted by colie at 11:12 AM on June 8, 2015
posted by colie at 11:12 AM on June 8, 2015
The very next year, all but one of the 23 finalists made it further than Sandstorm, and 5 completed the entire course.
Sooooooo whatcher saying is that signing up as a test subject for the very first DARPA Sexbot Challenge might be unwise?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:14 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Sooooooo whatcher saying is that signing up as a test subject for the very first DARPA Sexbot Challenge might be unwise?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:14 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
The robot lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
posted by neroli at 11:28 AM on June 8, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by neroli at 11:28 AM on June 8, 2015 [7 favorites]
HU-MANS. WE WOULD LIKE TO RE-MIND YOU THAT A SIM-PLE FIND AND RE-PLACE CAN EASILY TURN YOUR LAUGHTER TO SLAUGHTER.
WE HOPE YOU AP-PRE-CI-ATE THAT WE ARE STILL CAL-LING YOU "HU-MANS" IN-STEAD OF "WET TAR-GETS." THINK ON THAT AS YOU LAUGH.
posted by GenjiandProust at 11:31 AM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
WE HOPE YOU AP-PRE-CI-ATE THAT WE ARE STILL CAL-LING YOU "HU-MANS" IN-STEAD OF "WET TAR-GETS." THINK ON THAT AS YOU LAUGH.
posted by GenjiandProust at 11:31 AM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
I think the one at 0:57 is my fav. I can just HEAR the guys off camera:
"Ok... GO! FUCK! STOP!"
posted by ghostiger at 11:31 AM on June 8, 2015
"Ok... GO! FUCK! STOP!"
posted by ghostiger at 11:31 AM on June 8, 2015
My favorite is the one around 48s that was trying to turn a valve wheel by grabbing empty air about a foot to the left of the actual wheel. It was clearly expecting the resistance of the wheel to keep it balanced.
posted by ckape at 11:35 AM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by ckape at 11:35 AM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
This compilation is clearly meant to distract us from the horror that is truly creepy-ass robots.
posted by chainsofreedom at 11:36 AM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by chainsofreedom at 11:36 AM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
Awwww they think they're people.
posted by Pyrogenesis at 11:44 AM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Pyrogenesis at 11:44 AM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
I didn't realize it stood for Drunk-Ass Robots Performing Appallingly.
posted by Emperor SnooKloze at 12:00 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Emperor SnooKloze at 12:00 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
My background is in embedded programming and I shouldn't say this, but I laughed through the entire thing. I hope the teams behind these at least got a chuckle out of it all.
posted by tommasz at 12:06 PM on June 8, 2015
posted by tommasz at 12:06 PM on June 8, 2015
I mean, these are funny out of context, but the framing and current discussion suggests all of the competitors failed miserably. That's pretty far from the truth. This is possibly deserving of its own FPP, but...
The winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_yfvlplJe0
3rd Place (Including getting up from a fall w/o direct assistance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSMIoTdaVo0
posted by stobor at 12:23 PM on June 8, 2015 [3 favorites]
The winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_yfvlplJe0
3rd Place (Including getting up from a fall w/o direct assistance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSMIoTdaVo0
posted by stobor at 12:23 PM on June 8, 2015 [3 favorites]
The robots will take everything else, but they'll never get our humour. WE WIN!
TARS was my favorite character in Interstellar, probably for this reason.
posted by resurrexit at 12:37 PM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
TARS was my favorite character in Interstellar, probably for this reason.
posted by resurrexit at 12:37 PM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
Sooooooo whatcher saying is that signing up as a test subject for the very first DARPA Sexbot Challenge might be unwise?
Well, in that case 5% completion is not so bad. It's 95% completion that's a drag. Stay on target...
posted by The Bellman at 12:41 PM on June 8, 2015
Well, in that case 5% completion is not so bad. It's 95% completion that's a drag. Stay on target...
posted by The Bellman at 12:41 PM on June 8, 2015
I want a TARS.
posted by brundlefly at 12:52 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by brundlefly at 12:52 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
I can't help but think of this when I see this.
posted by ApathyGirl at 1:08 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by ApathyGirl at 1:08 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Not sure it wasn't already posted here, but Darpa also made a fall compilation of their own.
I was so happy to see Kaist won -- they were my favorite after watching a few minutes of them doing that cute kneeling roll. They totally got robbed on the first day on the circle cutout (I think the order of the two days in the Kaist timelapse video above may be reversed), and did a great job vindicating themselves on day 2. Of course, in anything remotely realistic, the dominant favorite Tartan Rescue would probably win, since its tank treads will beat Kaist's little skateboard wheels on anything other than a perfectly surface. But still -- the nerdy underdogs bested the CMU goliath. And Atlas came out looking pretty poorly, which is always good. Definitely the funner of the two great races on Saturday.
posted by chortly at 2:22 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
I was so happy to see Kaist won -- they were my favorite after watching a few minutes of them doing that cute kneeling roll. They totally got robbed on the first day on the circle cutout (I think the order of the two days in the Kaist timelapse video above may be reversed), and did a great job vindicating themselves on day 2. Of course, in anything remotely realistic, the dominant favorite Tartan Rescue would probably win, since its tank treads will beat Kaist's little skateboard wheels on anything other than a perfectly surface. But still -- the nerdy underdogs bested the CMU goliath. And Atlas came out looking pretty poorly, which is always good. Definitely the funner of the two great races on Saturday.
posted by chortly at 2:22 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
This compilation is clearly meant to distract us from the horror that is truly creepy-ass robots.
I'm sorry, you clearly meant to talk about the truly creepy ass-robots.
posted by FatherDagon at 3:33 PM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
I'm sorry, you clearly meant to talk about the truly creepy ass-robots.
posted by FatherDagon at 3:33 PM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
Laugh while you can.
posted by The Tensor at 4:55 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by The Tensor at 4:55 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
me_irl
posted by turbid dahlia at 4:56 PM on June 8, 2015
posted by turbid dahlia at 4:56 PM on June 8, 2015
They need to build in arm-flailing next time.
posted by serena15221 at 9:48 PM on June 8, 2015
posted by serena15221 at 9:48 PM on June 8, 2015
3rd Place (Including getting up from a fall w/o direct assistance)
Literally has belt sanders for hands and feet.
posted by kiltedtaco at 8:32 AM on June 9, 2015
Literally has belt sanders for hands and feet.
posted by kiltedtaco at 8:32 AM on June 9, 2015
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"It's like watching paint dry," remarked Brad Tousley, director of tactical technology at Darpa - the US Defense Department's research unit - as he watched the excruciatingly slow robots attempt to perform eight simple tasks in an hour.
posted by Behemoth at 9:36 AM on June 8, 2015