All New Atlas Boston Dynamics

They don't frighten me like a cage full of wild bears or something - despite all the safety interlocks and caged areas and all the safety stuff.... In the fictitious situaton, if your standing with your back to them, and it's in a kind of noisy workshop - like welding and griding and hammering etc.. And your standing there with your back to one of them, and there is a big of back ground noise etc., a BIG hydraulically driven welding can just start up swing around and put a hole right through you at jogging speed - partly the speed, partly the mass and mostly the intertia... "It's the coming to life" automatically bit that frightens me... ALL this AI controlled war technology just makes everything fucking worse.

It's hard to tell is this is CGI or real.... if it's real, I am cutious as to just how many turns of articulation there are, in all the different joints.... can they rotate 360* and either keep going, or they have a limit and have to spin back to their original position etc. And what are the "in system controllers" - in the what that the parts communicate, running power via non sparking slip rings and the cabling? What if the internal communications are like sort distance wireless / sort of bluetooth across the joints?

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: It's not CGI..

@clivemcd: But it could be.

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: Just look how fast CPU progression has been. If not now very soon.

@Councilof1: There is plenty of video around that is CGI and almost indistinguishable from reality. I gather that with really intense processing, that the imagery and audio can be glassy smooth, crystal clear and even better than this....

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: It could be fake that's always possible. I'm just saying never underestimate technological progression. After all digital cameras were invented in the early 1970's.

kill it before they give it an AI and teach it how to use weapons . then they put it on the battlefield . just a question of time before it turns on us . TERMINATE IT !

@Leader_Desslok: There are some dog like ones with guns on already. Current battery tech is the only reason why robot armies are not a reality yet but that will change eventually.

@clivemcd: With wareouses full of a million robot killer dogs, the fires should be great... : )