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New Robot Can Now Fight Back! (Corridor Digital)

Corridor DigitalCited 3× on HN, 2019–2023
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comedy · general · 2019–2023 on HN

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

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

3 comments from Hacker News

@pedrovhb2023-03 · in “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

@HeXetic2020-12 · in “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

@kartan2019-06 · in “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