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Videos of Humanoid Robots Going Dangerously Berserk
This is why we need kill switches
With multiple companies developing humanoid robots, it's a matter of time before one of them goes haywire and hurts someone. It hasn't happened yet, but two videos making the rounds show how it will likely start. In the first video, one of Unitree's H1 'bots "unexpectedly lunged toward a spectator who had extended their hand for a handshake:"
In the second, also an H1 'bot, a "coding error" causes it to lose its sh*t and start flailing dangerously:
I was once a fan of having big, red "off" buttons located in a prominent location on the robots' bodies. But watching these things flail, it's obvious you'd never be able to reach it without getting whacked. Remote kill switches or perhaps "safety words" are needed.
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That second clip will be used within the year in yet another apocalyptic movie about the robots trying to end humans. Scary.
Why doesn't the fire fighting robot in the next post have an axe?
In the early days of remote control TV cameras in the studio, I had a student who was the weatherman at a local station. He told me of a camera gone rogue & causing damage to the tune of a million dollars. No talking heads were harmed in the filming of the news hour.