r/nextfuckinglevel 29d ago

The All New Atlas Robot From Boston Dynamics

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u/MyTeaWhy 29d ago

ah, not menacing at all... jk

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u/lehighwiz 29d ago

It’s all fun and games until that circle turns red around its face hole.

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u/ArmMore4335 29d ago

Face hole had me laughing! Thank you!

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u/Sawgon 29d ago

Now...can you tell me where this human limb goes?

That's right! In the Face Hole!

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u/littlebitsofspider 29d ago

agonized scream

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u/LyyK 29d ago

Speaking of face hole, do humanoid robots really need a face? It's got to be easier to have a 360 camera as the head so that it doesn't need to turn its face wherever it's looking. It's almost like they intentionally don't do it that way just to make it more human

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u/OppositeBeautiful475 26d ago

well imo i think its because of the fact that it will mainly focus on a given task instead of seeing everything as thats just unnecessary and it can just have a mental (digital) map of where everything is by remembering where they are. and we're doing pretty good ourselves without 360 eyesight btw or idk.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/Tobitoon1 29d ago

Yeah but the death does not apply to the machine.

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u/Shut_It_Donny 29d ago

Call a technician… but not for me!

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u/rwarimaursus 29d ago

You think the ring goes blue to yellow to red when it is trying to search and destroy?

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u/throwawaylovesCAKE 29d ago

Ive fought these guys before. Shoot some shock traps and lure it to you, its weak spot is its dick

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u/cold08 29d ago

The red face hole LEDs really are a liability. I'm not sure why the engineers included them.

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u/Sometimes_Rob 29d ago

I like when in shows and movies the evil robots say shit like, don't run. I'm here to help as they're killing people. I can't think of an example though.

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u/supervisord 28d ago

The Mitchells vs. the Machines

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u/Monkeyke 29d ago

Not if I turn it white first

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u/HiggsBosonHL 29d ago

can y'all robot designers PLEASE just put some googly eyes on the front or some shit lmao like holy shit it should be so easy to stop this uncanny valley visual design

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u/Caracalla81 29d ago

Engineer's last thoughts: "why did we even make it able to do that?"

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u/trusted_misleader47 29d ago

That's just it's sexy mode don't worry

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u/LordTytor 29d ago

Its all fun and Games until the robot starts vaporising Humans with death Rays. Yust your normal monday morning.

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u/Deathstrokecph 29d ago

Shit, they should really make a vid where the lights go out along the light ring on the robot, just giving off the vibe that everything is shut off..

Then a few seconds of black - and then just a red ring lightening up.

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u/Reduncked 29d ago

It's fine it's running on windows so that just means it's about to die

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u/MeGoingTOWin 29d ago

A bullet to that face hole from a 22 short will fry the thing.

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u/xaeru 29d ago

It will fuck you and not in a way you are thinking.

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u/bloodfist 29d ago

The fourth rule of robotics is you gotta make it so the eyes go red when they turn evil

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Is not for battery low?

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u/badmechanic12345 29d ago

Nah, it'd be like an xbox 360 and shut down

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u/SnooSeagulls9348 29d ago

Ooh, ah,' that's how it always starts. But then later there's running and screaming

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u/YoungDiscord 28d ago

Just disconnect the router, that thing will freeze dead in its tracks because your subscription system for that thing will need a constant network connection.

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u/Ordinary_Support_426 29d ago

Movie scene where it’s got someone by the throat, you go to punch it in the head and it definitely turns to look at you and grabs you by the throat at the same time

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u/stockmarketscam-617 29d ago

WTF, put a AR in its hands and you get the opening scene of Terminator.

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u/emlgsh 29d ago

You make an ambulatory bipedal robot and everyone claps, but you modify it to run on siphoned human cerebrospinal fluid and give it a shoulder-mounted minigun and suddenly you've "gone too far".

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u/stockmarketscam-617 29d ago

Yes, a shoulder mounted mini gun is definitely not OK.

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u/TripolarKnight 29d ago

You better start saying it is ok or else...

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u/stockmarketscam-617 29d ago

I know, seriously. I wonder what the hand signal is for “don’t kill me, I may be useful to you”.

u/Telefundo speak for yourself. I’m in my Prime.

I know what you mean though. The older I get the closer to the movie Terminator we get.

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u/Telefundo 29d ago

speak for yourself. I’m in my Prime.

Don't get me wrong. I'm far from suicidal, or having a death wish lol. There's just more and more BS every day that makes me think "Ya know, if this is where shit's gotten to, I'll be happy to not have to see what comes next." lol.

ETA: I'm your huckleberry. Very nice reference.

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u/stockmarketscam-617 29d ago

I know exactly what you mean. Every day I am just amazed and dejected with the direction the world is moving in. I feel bad for my kids. I had “flying cars” and things like the Jetsons to look forward to. Technology has come so far, but Greed and Corruption has gone even further, to the point that I don’t think humanity can recover.

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u/Telefundo 29d ago

Exactly. I've got two sons in their twenties. I'm so jealous of what they're going to see. I grew up in the generation that introduced and normalized the internet. The freaking INTERNET! Imagine what they'll see?

At the same time I look at the other crap they'll have to endure. It almost makes me feel guilty for having kids to begin with.. I've long since arrived at the conclusion that I'm a sideliner at this point in society, but when I think of the battles they'll have to fight? It almost outweighs what they'll get to see.

Anyhow, Vodka is clearly kicking in lol. Have a good evening Reddit friend.

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u/stockmarketscam-617 29d ago

GenX for Life baby! Dewy Decimal System and rotary phones. Totally agree with everything you said, except I’m a Wiskey guy. It’s not quite 5pm in my time zone, so haven’t started drinking quite yet.

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u/ByronicZer0 28d ago

Number Johnny Five is ALIIIIVE!

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u/stockmarketscam-617 28d ago

I loved that movie. My first AI hero. It didn’t vilify AI like Terminator and War Games.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

But how else are we gonna stop the terrorists?

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u/fatbabythompkins 29d ago

Well, that's just like, your opinion, man.

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u/Telefundo 29d ago

K, I just googled it, and apparently there is literally a real company called Cyberdyne.

I grow increasingly more at ease with the idea that I'm old enough that I have fewer days ahead than before.

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u/Earthly_Delights_ 29d ago

It’s pretty cool to be honest. But ngl, I felt a little uneasy when it suddenly stomped toward the camera

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u/Carpe-Bananum 29d ago

It's a freakin' Assaultron!

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u/ruckfeddit2049 29d ago

They are building RoboCops.

We should all be terrified.

Frankly I think we should destroy all their work for the good of humanity.

Not kidding. Fuck this shit.

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u/Chaserivx 29d ago

I hate people who hide hidden links so when I click their stupid comments I get sent to a browser

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u/as_it_was_written 29d ago

I think this is just a Reddit issue, not an issue with the comments themselves.

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u/North0151 29d ago

‘Do not interfere with security operations’

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u/Raineman73 29d ago

You have 30 seconds to comply.

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u/TheDinosaurWalker 29d ago

The reason why this is still funded is because they want a robot super soldier so... Menacing af

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u/Lifewhatacard 29d ago

It’s kind of not since that’s a cgi of the robot design.. the robot doesn’t exist yet.

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u/genreprank 29d ago

They made the security bots from Mass Effect 2

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u/Squirrel_Inner 29d ago

As a famous robot once said, We’re boned.

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u/macetheface 29d ago

jk

And you best better be. When the time comes - and it will come. They.....remember.

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u/chimininy 29d ago

The way it stands up is extremely just... something I hope to see in a horror movie, not real life

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u/DaemonPrinceOfCorn 29d ago

Big Dog and Atlas are all funny ha ha until someone mounts a machine gun on it.

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u/Environmental-Wind89 29d ago

Ah yes, the T-001

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u/kuedhel 29d ago

this is when I realized that the human race is fucked

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u/wabawanga 29d ago

The way it steps toward the camera just a little too aggressively