Boston Dynamics: Atlas 2.0
April 18th, 2024Via: Daily Mail:
Boston Dynamics has unveiled a new version of its Atlas humanoid robot, showing its creepy movements that make it look like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.
The Massachusetts-based robotics company shared a video of the latest humanoid, showing it pulling its leg behind its heads to stand up – in a way that the public said ‘looked like something out of The Exorcist.’
This new version boasts joints that let the machine bend and move in ways that the human body can’t – unlike the original, rigid Atlas that was famous for dancing and doing parkour.
The company also plans to sell the latest humanoid robot, but the price has yet to be disclosed, and it is set to begin its first job at Hyundai’s factories next year.
Why are robots built in the shape of a human body? Even with this one’s flexibility, surely there are other configurations, such as having more legs for more speed and better balance, or tractor tread feet as well as flat ones, or legs/arms that have both a hand and a foot on the end for greater versatility? A spider body with a dome of eyes on top and bottom might function better. Why the anthropomorphism?
“anthropomorphism /?n?thr?-p?-môr?f?z??m/
noun
1. Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.
2. The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.
3. The ascription of human characteristics to things not human.”
I think it’s #2. It is the robot maker’s transference of his belief in and desire for transhumanism, (self-Chosen People becoming gods through engineering,) onto a machine that can do ‘miraculous’ things using the (his) knowledge and reasoning that he built into it.
It’s proof that men who seek to out-do Nature in any way possible are men who can’t or won’t restrain their lust for power over everything. I expect soon to see robots with weapons on every appendage, the little boy’s cowboy/soldier/transformer hero come to life. With real weapons, however, these adult fantasy toys will someday blow up the planet.
I wish these brilliant guys would invent a time machine so I can go back to 1800 and live in a world where God-wannabes can only fantasize.
I just watched yesterday’s Joe Rogan-Tucker Carlson discussion on this. At 0:28:50, Rogan talks about machines becoming gods. Then Carlson talks about how that may be a bad thing and we should stop it before it gets that far. This program started out being about UFO’s and where they come from and why they’re here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfTU5LA_kw8