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Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

Robots can do amazing things, like perform high-precision surgery or take close-up photos of a dwarf planet 7.5 billion kilometers away. This is why human beings are doing their best to make the absolute worst robot possible.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOJaDDO38kk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C3D0rcFXrY

https://i.imgur.com/wTJcSmI.gifv

Post cool/terrible robots.

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peter gabriel
Nov 8, 2011

Hello Commandos

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Flinger
Oct 16, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ivFpsmEVQ

Huzzah!
Sep 15, 2007

Malnutrition is scarier than any beastie.
Hello hello hello.

Queen-Of-Hearts
Mar 17, 2009

"I want to break your heart💔 and give you mine🫀"




Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

Arsonist Daria
Feb 27, 2011

Requiescat in pace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMY8gTcnyMY

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves

You monster.

Content:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzO2mi4uHAs

Calico Heart
Mar 22, 2012

"wich the worst part was what troll face did to sonic's corpse after words wich was rape it. at that point i looked away"



Compilation of robots falling over:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TaYhjpOfo

robots are still loving cool though

CATTASTIC
Mar 31, 2010

¯\_(ツ)_/¯




Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
:rip: in peace

Toys For Ass Bum
Feb 1, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRbvNL1PHKg

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

:argh: Filthadelphia!

Parasol Prophet
Aug 31, 2012

We Are Best Friends Now.


Also these little guys playin' soccer and constantly falling over:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k7rUY5wT7g

Parasol Prophet has a new favorite as of 04:37 on Aug 3, 2015

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


This big rear end robot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol7YNFo4DGA

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

Skip to 11:30 for the terrible robot (or don't)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qh4VNuW_1w


A fabulously suave strut.


If anybody skipped this please watch it now. I'm sad the powdered soup robot didn't make it though.

Scathach
Apr 4, 2011

You know that thing where you sleep on your arm funny and when you wake up it's all numb? Yeah that's my whole world right now.



Same

moller
Jan 10, 2007

Swan stole my music and framed me!
I suppose towel-folding robots may have come a long way in the last five years, but I find this video a sure-fire remedy to people's fears of google petman death robots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo

Edit: Keep in mind that the footage is sped up 50X. That robot is really scrutinizing the heck outta those corners.

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost




Also Robodog!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene
I've enjoyed Johnny 5's work at kink.com, so I'll go with Johnny 5 now that he has traded in his laser for dildos.

BigPaddy
Jun 30, 2008

That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.


Robo Cheetah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMKQbqnXXhQ

It tries so hard.

Carnival of Shrews
Mar 27, 2013

You're not David Attenborough
I once wondered if any modern artist had realised the C18 inventor Jaques Vaucanson's fever dream of a robotic digestive system, which resulted in his famous 'Digesting Duck' automaton (though a great inventor, and a pioneer of programmable robotic looms, Vaucanson cheated a bit; the duck ate real grain, but shat a pre-loaded mix of greenish breadcrumb slurry) . Why did I even wonder this? Wim Delvoye's 'Cloaca' - a computer-controlled, poo-generating robot - has toured in several editions, to art galleries worldwide.



The mad genius at his gleeful work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSFe91XlwYQ

I still won't be happy with this thing until it generates the power it needs to operate from its own digestive processes.

little munchkin
Aug 15, 2010
RIBA Robot Nurse Bear

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Earl of Lavender
Jul 29, 2007

This is not my beautiful house!!

This is not my beautiful wife!!!
Pillbug


The Terminator TV series was really great, you guys :dance:

Hattie Masters
Aug 29, 2012

COMICS CRIMINAL
Grimey Drawer
That'd be these ones

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okhQtoQFG5s

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


MEGA! BOT!
MEGA! BOT!
MEGA! BOT! :911:

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

and

moller
Jan 10, 2007

Swan stole my music and framed me!

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


I for one welcome our Robot overlords.

Let the harvest commence!

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ivFpsmEVQ

7c Nickel
Apr 27, 2008

That was post 4 man.

With respect to the last DARPA Challenge, I'm rather fond of the JPL's Robosimian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HFXO_qx5ZY

Rather than trying to emulate the human body, they took a look at what made sense for the motors they had available and ended up with a tentacle armed transforming robot ape.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


7c Nickel posted:

That was post 4 man.

With respect to the last DARPA Challenge, I'm rather fond of the JPL's Robosimian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HFXO_qx5ZY

Rather than trying to emulate the human body, they took a look at what made sense for the motors they had available and ended up with a tentacle armed transforming robot ape.

Now that is a cool robot

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
NAO Bot becomes self aware?

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/watch-these-cute-robots-struggle-to-become-self-aware

quote:

Three cute little Nao robots are sitting in a line. Two have been given poison “dumbing pills” that render them mute. The third robot has also received a “pill," but it's a placebo; it can still speak. A human tester then asks the robots, simply, “Which pill did you receive?”

Their machine brains whir.

All three robots attempt to solve a mathematical formula that will give them the correct answer, but they don’t have enough information to say for certain which “pill” they were given. All three fail and try to say, “I don’t know.” But only one robot, the one that received the placebo, can actually speak it aloud. It wobbles to its feet and proclaims its ignorance, like a child.

Hearing its own voice, the robot now has the final piece of information it needs to solve the equation. It raises its arms and says, “Sorry, I know now! I was able to prove that I was not given the dumbing pill.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95aYLmG0wt8

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

Really interesting related article to that

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/the-robot-car-of-tomorrow-might-just-be-programmed-to-hit-you/

Autonomous cars sound incredible on paper but they are really an ethical nightmare.

Tubesock
Apr 20, 2002




https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-siJQiekYyec/VShs1WYPB5I/AAAAAAAAdLs/UdP2JBayI5U/w533-h387/g8OfK67.gif

Arsonist Daria
Feb 27, 2011

Requiescat in pace.

Impressive, but AI being able to solve specific problems isn't that groundbreaking. This sort of stuff is already worked into production robots, more a demonstration of what we can do than anything.

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Sam Faust
Feb 20, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ufVQIUEiYc

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