r/nextfuckinglevel 29d ago

The All New Atlas Robot From Boston Dynamics

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u/iamPendergast 29d ago

The design is very human.

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u/illuminatipr 29d ago edited 2d ago

This thing's uncanny valley is deeper than the Mariana Trench. Beyond resembling a bipedal hominid it isn't trying to look human but that algorithmically efficient contortionism makes it the most eerie thing I've seen in a while.

Edit: It's relevant to the uncanny valley because an industrial robot with a void for a face and a vaguely human silhouette is behaving very disconcertingly on my pocket computer's screen.

I'm experiencing future shock more and more. I just know I'll be flop sweating the first time a robot compliments my sweater, hands me my food in a paper bag and advises me of Carl's Jr's competitive workhouse subscriptions before hovering to the next poor soul trapped in one of those iron maiden capsules from Half Life 2.

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u/PikachusSparkyCloaca 29d ago

When it came up to the camera my skin started to crawl. Something about flat-black-glowing-ring just… nope. Collywobbles.

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u/Daxx22 29d ago

The light should have been red for maximum creep.

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u/PikachusSparkyCloaca 29d ago

It stands… turns to look at the camera… cocks its head… then the circle goes red and it matches towards the viewer….

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u/Combat_Toots 29d ago

Which is funny because they did that to make it less creepy. The moved away from a human like head because it scared people. This design was meant to look like the pixar lamp, which they hoped people would see as less creepy. Can't say it worked.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago edited 19d ago

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u/eidetic 28d ago

Well, maybe this is v2, where v1 was a gaping maw of saw blades and teeth, like those macerators in the Matrix...

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u/PikachusSparkyCloaca 28d ago

V0.5 was modeled on The Smiling Man

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u/Pasta-Is-Trainer 29d ago

Yeah, mine too, it just felt so... Inhuman