Robot Round-Up

[ramonmercado]

Robot mistakes man for box of peppers.

A man has been crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from the boxes of food it was handling, reports say.

The incident occurred when the man, a robotics company employee in his 40s, was inspecting the robot. The robotic arm, confusing the man for a box of vegetables, grabbed him and pushed his body against the conveyer belt, crushing his face and chest, South Korean news agency Yonhap said. He was sent to hospital but later died.

According to Yonhap, the robot was responsible for lifting boxes of peppers and transferring them onto pallets. The man had been checking the robot's sensor operations ahead of its test run at the pepper sorting plant in South Gyeongsang province, scheduled for 8 November, the agency adds, quoting police.

The test had been originally been planned for 6 November, but was pushed back by two days due to problems with the robot's sensor. The man, a worker from the company that manufactured the robotic arm, was running checks on the machine late into the night on Wednesday when it malfunctioned.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67354709

 

[maximus otter]

Robot Dog Arrests Homeless Man in Los Angeles​

So it was early in the morning hours and some passengers on a bus noticed a guy sleeping in one of the seats and he appeared to have a handgun by his feet on the floor. They quietly alerted the driver who pulled over and allowed the rest of the passengers to evacuate while calling the cops.

A SWAT team showed up and attempted to communicate with the man and get him to come out peacefully. But he either ignored them or they were unable to wake him up, so the situation turned into a “standoff.” Not wanting to send in an officer to potentially startle an armed man out of his slumber, they opted to send in “SPOT” to deal with the situation.

The robot dog didn’t go in and evaluate the situation using Artificial Intelligence and blaze into action. This model doesn’t have those sorts of capabilities. SPOT didn’t even have a firearm, although that is also an option. The robot is controlled remotely by a SWAT team member who can “see” through the dog’s cameras and “speak” to the suspect and hear their responses.

The man (who may have been homeless and simply sleeping on the bus that night) was convinced to surrender and a handgun was recovered at the scene.

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/11/09/robot-dog-arrests-homeless-man-in-los-angeles-n591232

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[Mythopoeika]

Tesla's humanoid robots are now looking really advanced:

 

[hunck]

Tesla's humanoid robots are now looking really advanced:

It walks a bit like Joe Biden.

 

[Mythopoeika]

It walks a bit like Joe Biden.

It's odd, but all the humanoid robots walk like that.

 

[Steven]

Tesla's humanoid robots are now looking really advanced

Yes, but it still made a mess of owning Twitter.

 

[Analogue Boy]

Now I want to see one taking a Boston Dynamics RoboDog for a walk.

 

[Bigphoot2]

It's odd, but all the humanoid robots walk like that.

They look like they are trying to make it to the bathroom before a trouser catastrophe happens.

 

[maximus otter]

Shoppers fume as Morrisons unleashes ‘robocop’ cameras in supermarket


Morrisons is using ‘robocop’ cameras in supermarket aisles to stop customers from stealing expensive booze.

It installed branded Safer Pod S1s next to alcohol as a deterrent against the shoplifting epidemic plaguing Britain.

The stationary four-legged safety devices are equipped with HD cameras and a state-of-the-art 120db siren system to alert against thieves.

They are powered by a solar panel battery and can be moved around the store to problem areas while operated by a control room via an app.

Morrisons is currently reviewing the results of their trial in “a handful” of stores over the Christmas period.

One CCTV monitoring station was seen stationed next to premium whisky on Monday with the warning “we’re keeping an eye on things to keep your store safe”.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/10049004/

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[PeteByrdie]

Shoppers fume as Morrisons unleashes ‘robocop’ cameras in supermarket


Morrisons is using ‘robocop’ cameras in supermarket aisles to stop customers from stealing expensive booze.

It installed branded Safer Pod S1s next to alcohol as a deterrent against the shoplifting epidemic plaguing Britain.

The stationary four-legged safety devices are equipped with HD cameras and a state-of-the-art 120db siren system to alert against thieves.

They are powered by a solar panel battery and can be moved around the store to problem areas while operated by a control room via an app.

Morrisons is currently reviewing the results of their trial in “a handful” of stores over the Christmas period.

One CCTV monitoring station was seen stationed next to premium whisky on Monday with the warning “we’re keeping an eye on things to keep your store safe”.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/10049004/

maximus otter

So, it's just a portable CCTV camera? Welcome to the advanced robotics of 21st century civilisation. Anyone disappointed by what 'the future' turned out to be like clearly watched too many movies in the 80s and 90s.

 

[MorningAngel]

So, it's just a portable CCTV camera? Welcome to the advanced robotics of 21st century civilisation. Anyone disappointed by what 'the future' turned out to be like clearly watched too many movies in the 80s and 90s.

Yes where’s the robocop style security guard?

 

[Swifty]

So, it's just a portable CCTV camera? Welcome to the advanced robotics of 21st century civilisation. Anyone disappointed by what 'the future' turned out to be like clearly watched too many movies in the 80s and 90s.

.... so you'd just do what people did with speed cameras .. go in with a can of black spray paint, spray the lenses. Whisky robbed (unless it has a security tag).

 

[Swifty]

Yes where’s the robocop style security guard?

Cooler more futuristic store based robot security guards you say? .. here you go.

 

[PeteByrdie]

Cooler more futuristic store based robot security guards you say? .. here you go.

I watched this a few months ago after years of hearing how bad it was. I found it thoroughly entertaining.

 

[Swifty]

I watched this a few months ago after years of hearing how bad it was. I found it thoroughly entertaining.

I agree 100% Pete. I avoided renting it when it came out because the video box art wasn't exactly inspiring but it's actually a surprisingly well made film isn't it. Perhaps it came out about the same time The Terminator and Short Circuit did so it was compared to them?.

.. anyway, sorry, actual real robots talk ....

 

[PeteByrdie]

Perhaps it came out about the same time The Terminator and Short Circuit did so it was compared to them?.

Could be. How soon people forget what they'd been happy to accept a year ago now that the shiny new thing has turned up. But looking back at it, putting it in a mid-eighties slasher context, it's just good silly fun.

 

[Floyd]

T-1000 from the Terminator is now here;

Liquid metal RAM is first step towards shapeless computing — as well as spineless robots with octopus-like features and robots from a popular 90's Sci-Fi movie​

Researchers have developed flexible memory that can withstand any deformation

(Image credit: Jing Liu/Tsinghua University )

https://www.techradar.com/pro/liqui...es-and-robots-from-a-popular-90s-sci-fi-movie

 

[MorningAngel]

I saw this today in Charing Cross station London. I was puzzled what it was. I thought it looked like the base for something. Looking it up it’s something to do (probably a charging unit) for a robot cleaning device.

 

[MorningAngel]

I’m disappointed I didn’t spot the robot that goes with it now.

 

[uair01]

From Twitter:

Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris
Science fiction writers: The legal case for robot personhood will be made when a robot goes on trial for murder.
Reality: The legal case for robot personhood will be made when an airline wants to get out of paying a refund.



Zekromaster @zekromaster
From what I've seen the court didn't even actually rule on if the robot is a person or not, they just said "whatever, you allowed it to speak in the name of the company".

 

[uair01]

A blog comment:

Agammamon 2024-02-18 11:28:00

The robot uprising won't be like it was portrayed in the'Terminator' series.

The real event will be when Skynet sends out catgirl T-800's to be your big tiddy goth GF and we all fuck ourselves into extinction.

 

[hunck]

Robot gooses reporter

In Saudi Arabia.

QSS confirmed to Metro.co.uk that Mohammad is ‘fully autonomous’, and was operating ‘independently without direct human control’.

Video at link.

 

[hunck]

Chinese robo-man & dog

You’ve seen the Boston Dynamics ones - these are the Chinese versions. Claims to be the fastest humanoid at 7mph.

The dog can run 100 metres in 24.73 seconds.

Video at link.

 

[maximus otter]

Robotic police dog shot multiple times, credited with avoiding potential bloodshed​

A robotic dog is being thanked by state police in Massachusetts for helping avert a tragedy involving a person barricaded in a home.

The robotic dog named Roscoe was part of the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad and deployed on March 6 in a Barnstable house after police were fired upon. Police sent in two other robots often used for bomb disposal into the house to find the suspect along with the robotic dog.

Controlled remotely by state troopers, it first checked the two main floors before finding someone in the basement. The person, armed with a rifle, twice knocked over the robotic dog before shooting it three times and disabling its communication.

The person then shot at one of the other robots and an outdoor swimming pool before police deployed tear gas and arrested them.

Authorities have not identified the shooter or said what charges they face.

https://apnews.com/article/massachusetts-cape-cod-robot-dog-police-f63586d5286750702f396109c9a81836

maximus otter

 

[ramonmercado]

All the cultural sensitivity of bender from Futurama.

A robot is chatting to an elderly British man in his bedroom. The robot has a cheery demeanor and a pleasantly high-pitched voice.

The robot—perhaps because of the man's age—starts asking him about his memories of the Second World War: "Please tell me what was the most difficult thing you and your family had to go through?" The elderly man goes on to talk about how his father was in the Royal Air Force and they didn't see him for almost four years.

But why was a robot bluntly asking him about what may have been one of the most traumatic experiences he's ever had? The robot's behavior was the product of the Caresses project (Culture-Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for Elderly Support).

This project fits into the new field of "cultural robotics," which aims to design robots that can take into account the cultural background of the person they're talking to, and adjust their behavior accordingly. That's why the robot is chatting about the war. The man was British, so it presumed he would be interested.

In the future, we can expect robots to be deployed more and more in our personal and social lives. There is currently active research into fields as diverse as delivery robots for supermarkets, entertainment robots, service robots for health care, fetching robots for warehouses, robots for dementia support, robots for people on the autism spectrum and care robots for the elderly.

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-robots-culturally-insensitive-scientists.html

 

[MorningAngel]

All the cultural sensitivity of bender from Futurama.

A robot is chatting to an elderly British man in his bedroom. The robot has a cheery demeanor and a pleasantly high-pitched voice.

The robot—perhaps because of the man's age—starts asking him about his memories of the Second World War: "Please tell me what was the most difficult thing you and your family had to go through?" The elderly man goes on to talk about how his father was in the Royal Air Force and they didn't see him for almost four years.

But why was a robot bluntly asking him about what may have been one of the most traumatic experiences he's ever had? The robot's behavior was the product of the Caresses project (Culture-Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for Elderly Support).

This project fits into the new field of "cultural robotics," which aims to design robots that can take into account the cultural background of the person they're talking to, and adjust their behavior accordingly. That's why the robot is chatting about the war. The man was British, so it presumed he would be interested.

In the future, we can expect robots to be deployed more and more in our personal and social lives. There is currently active research into fields as diverse as delivery robots for supermarkets, entertainment robots, service robots for health care, fetching robots for warehouses, robots for dementia support, robots for people on the autism spectrum and care robots for the elderly.

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-robots-culturally-insensitive-scientists.html

 

[hunck]

Latest Boston Dynamics Robot

Short video.

 

[Swifty]

Latest Boston Dynamics Robot

Short video.

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Its 'face' looks like my ALEXA. I'm wondering if Boston Dynamics have incorporated A.I. at last into ATLAS 2?. I reckon an old school lasso could bring it crashing down.

 

[Analogue Boy]

I’m not sure I like where all this is going. You know what’s behind robots?
People. And people can be horrifying.

 

[Mythopoeika]

I’m not sure I like where all this is going. You know what’s behind robots?
People. And people can be horrifying.

Not just people. Powerful people who want to kill us, Joseph Q. Public.