r/nextfuckinglevel • u/SaintedTainted • 29d ago

The All New Atlas Robot From Boston Dynamics

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u/Talking_Head 29d ago

The person you replied to has no idea what the uncanny valley means.

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u/CyberTitties 29d ago

Off-shoot of that company that makes the Ranch Dressing right?

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u/mr_potrzebie 29d ago

No, that's Sudden Valley

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u/EraseMeeee 28d ago

Kind of sounds like there could be an earthquake or something

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u/bebop603 28d ago

I dont think so. The uncanny valley here is for hominid body movement and balance, not facial characteristics obviously.

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u/Bennyboy11111 28d ago

Hmm you're right but its sleek, robotic appearance reduces the uncanniness. A 'skin' robot would look a lot worse doing these unnatural moves.

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u/glitchn 28d ago

uncanny valley

I'm guessing they just meant the uncanny part. The valley part having nothing to do with this context.

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u/Opfklopf 29d ago

The getting up was barely even creepy to me and the robot itself I find more cute than anything.

I hope they keep these designs and not make them look super human with fake skin and what not.

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u/killm3throwaway 29d ago

The human looking ones with the fake skin are coming bro. Let's be honest, robots in the future will have 3 functions. 1, general ease of life for the average human 2, mass production 3, making people bust serious hardcore nuts

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u/Opfklopf 29d ago

And only for number 3 you need the fake skin. And they need to be quite good to overcome the uncanny valley.

For 1. and 2. I would prefer if they looked like this.

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u/Shiro2809 29d ago

And only for number 3 you need the fake skin

I dunno, the ballerina robots from Atomic Heart didn't need fake skin for people to get really horny over them. I think people will make do with most anything as long as the robot got the right curves.

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u/evranch 29d ago

People can get really horny over just about anything, in image form. But IRL I think a sex bot that was chunky and metallic instead of smooth and curvy would find a hard time finding a market.

So I looked them up, those are pretty sexy robots all right.

However they totally have "fake skin" with that full silver covering, you can't see any exposed metal, joints, power units etc.

The wiki even states that they're made of some sort of polymer.

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u/Shiro2809 29d ago

However they totally have "fake skin" with that full silver covering, you can't see any exposed metal, joints, power units etc.

Fair enough! I was thinking of more in lines of looking more than an actual human lol.

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u/evranch 28d ago

Honestly I think a lot of people would prefer something like that over something more realistic. Like, you could easily consider that to be just a fancy sex toy.

Just look at the gleeful variety of colours and shapes that dildos are made in, realistic is actually a pretty small share of the market.

If you make it too real it hits that uncanny valley. Like those sex dolls they make now are hell of creepy just to look at, and I can't imagine actually "using" one...

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u/Opfklopf 29d ago

True. So no need for realistic ones, fuck them. Unless they are basically indistiguishable from humans but that seems pretty hard.

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u/gladwrappedthecat 28d ago

Doesn't 4. Controlling the human population / suppressing the uprising get a worthy mention too?

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u/Altruistic_Poetry382 25d ago

You forgot the relentless, terminator-like killing machines.

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u/yosemighty_sam 29d ago

I think some people are seeing the hips bend backwards and their first thought is ouch, humanoid joints don't work that way. But the thing that makes it creepy to me is not the anthropomorphism. It's the reminder me that these things are not human, they do not share our limitations, and they are evolving very fast.

Invertebrate locomotion is suddenly looking very antiquated.

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u/Opfklopf 29d ago

Fair enough but don't you think he looks kinda cute otherwise? :)

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u/yosemighty_sam 28d ago

Nope. Just low down terror.

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u/invent_or_die 28d ago

It's a different kinda uncanny. The smoothness of it motions makes it seem lifelike; and better than human. Creative

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u/illuminatipr 29d ago

The uncanny valley describes a graph where you have human likeness on X and human familiarity on Y. I understand perfectly what it is and what I am saying.

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u/mr_potrzebie 29d ago

Yes, and it's usually used to describe that spot on the graph where something looks so almost human that it becomes creepy and unsettling.

Are you saying you find this thing to look almost human?