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Boston Dynamics · 42.4M views · 2020-12-29 · 2:55

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Boston Dynamics' New Year video shows its Atlas, Spot and Handle robots dancing to 'Do You Love Me?'. It showcases the company's progress in legged dynamic balance.

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Used as a benchmark for robot agility, with debate over how much was choreographed or real-time.

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avereveard · 2026-02 · Reference

Unfair reading bordering with propaganda. On one hand Boston Dynamics showed similar skill robot well before this demo, only without coreography, which is were most of the wow effect comes from here. [LINK] Heck check were they were 5 years ago [VIDEO] Things is american research is financed by outcome potential not for grandstanding, and free standing robot that can only do recorded coreography aren't that useful outside factory floors, and factory floors can use ceiling rails or wheels to better effect. So yeah video is suler cool, but there isn't much to it beyond that to read in terms of capabilities. You seem just to be projecting what the truth you want to be on top of a funny dance.

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kohsuke · 2025-08 · Reference

So they run 5 different experiments to test the hypothesis, and they were nothing like what I imagined. For example, in one study, they divide participants into two groups, have one group watch [VIDEO] (that highlights the high socio-emotional capabilities of a robot), while the other watches [LINK] (that highlights the low socio-emotional capabilities of a robot) They are then asked if they agree or disagree with a (presumably hypothetical?) company's proposal to reduce employees' welfare, such as replacing a meal with a shake. Two groups showed a different preference. This makes me think about that old question of whether you thank LLM or not. That is treating LLMs more like humans, so if what this paper found holds, maybe that'd nudge our brain subtly toward dehumanizing other real humans!? That's so counter intuitive...

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rglover · 2023-05 · Joke / meme

Not that you'll view it as valid but I'm using abductive logic. I shared the Boston Dynamics thing in jest, but I'd love to hear valid reasons for the existence of a bipedal robot that can run and scale over objects. Are these things being used to down dissidents a reality today? No, but it's a perfectly logical conclusion for what's down the pike. FWIW, too, the "tinfoil hat" thing doesn't work on me. I will smugly tighten mine as I look down upon the naive proletariat being manhandled as "Do You Love Me" [1] is played over the crowd control loudspeakers. [1] [VIDEO]

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