Related: Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks saw this coming: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/why-irobots-founder-wont-go-within-10-feet-of-todays-walking-robots/
Related: Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks saw this coming: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/why-irobots-founder-wont-go-within-10-feet-of-todays-walking-robots/
Probably hundreds of movies show all the ways making humanoid robots can go wrong. Why the hell does anyone think it’s still a good idea to make robots that are significantly stronger than humans?
The strongest wisdom I have learned in life is that if humans can do it, they will. Ethics can never prevent something from arising; only physics.
Got nothing to do with being humanoid.
Bipedal predators are a rounding error, probably the most effective hunter/killer robot would be dog shaped and medium dog sized, with a back mounted turret.
Give it pack tactics, with radio comms…
It doesn’t need comms if the pack is functioning as a multi part individual the way bees or ants do.
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Aka: radio comms, when talking about robots.
If you consider the mentality of fascist dictators, the concept of an ever obedient non thinking workforce/army is very appealing. That’s why.
Could it end badly even for them? Sure, but heck, if they don’t make the human race ending robots, someone else will.
I give it 6 months until they forget their password or something and their entire empire collapses until they can get someone out from IT to fix it, but first they have to log a ticket or else no work is being done.
So they can easily do tasks better than a human or that a human could not possibly do. Like moving heavy furniture unaided.
I’m much more interested in a robot that can cook. That’d be something.
They already have stir fry robots. They’re not humanoid though, because they’re built specifically for stir fry.
That’s definitely a step in the right direction.