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New Robot Can Now Fight Back! (Corridor Digital)

Name: New Robot Can Now Fight Back! (Corridor Digital)
Description: Corridor Digital's comedic fake video of a Boston Dynamics robot fighting back against its human tormentors, made with motion capture and VFX.

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Cited on HN 3 times, 2019–2023, never outright recommended score 0

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HN brings it up only as a joke about robot uprisings and future AI overlords.

Corridor Digital's comedic fake video of a Boston Dynamics robot fighting back against its human tormentors, made with motion capture and VFX.

3 jokes · Comedy · news from the time

Robotics Animation & visual effects Satire & parody Comedy AI, Machine Learning & Data

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@kartan Jun 2019 Makes a joke

on HN thread Boston Dynamics prepares to launch its first commercial robot

It takes time for tech to develop. We have in our homes small simple robot toys and Roomba-like robots clean our apartments. Each step seems very little compared with our expectations. But, technology will get with time cheaper, and easier to use. Funny thing: [this video]

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@HeXetic Dec 2020 Makes a joke

on HN thread Do You Love Me? [video]

I wonder if the guys behind the previous "Bosstown Dynamics" videos will spoof this as they did with [this video]

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@pedrovhb Mar 2023 Makes a joke

on HN thread Palm-E: An embodied multimodal language model

Looking at the gif of a guy picking on the robot by messing with the chips it's supposed to get, I can't help but be reminded of that one Boston Dynamics parody [0]. I sure hope our future overlords can tell that it was just a joke, and not a documentary! [0] [this video]

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