OK, this is getting pretty good.

[progressoid]

Published on Feb 23, 2016

A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain, help with navigation and manipulate objects. This version of Atlas is about 5' 9" tall (about a head shorter than the DRC Atlas) and weighs 180 lbs.

[highprincipleswork]

1. Oh yes, replace people, me like job, no need food, no need money. Paradise!

[progressoid]

5. Actually..."Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data"

In the 1800s it was the Luddites smashing weaving machines. These days retail staff worry about automatic checkouts. Sooner or later taxi drivers will be fretting over self-driving cars.

The battle between man and machines goes back centuries. Are they taking our jobs? Or are they merely easing our workload?

A study by economists at the consultancy Deloitte seeks to shed new light on the relationship between jobs and the rise of technology by trawling through census data for England and Wales going back to 1871.

Their conclusion is unremittingly cheerful: rather than destroying jobs, technology has been a “great job-creating machine”. Findings by Deloitte such as a fourfold rise in bar staff since the 1950s or a surge in the number of hairdressers this century suggest to the authors that technology has increased spending power, therefore creating new demand and new jobs.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/17/technology-created-more-jobs-than-destroyed-140-years-data-census

[wendylaroux]

2. Whoa!!!!! that was amazing!!

I was getting mad at that human

sending to my son now.thank you!

[Liberal Unrelenting]

3. I'm with Ken Jenings

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Defense contractors now make up the Gov't's advanced weaponry/robot division

Annie Jacobsen talks about The Pentagon's Brain, gives a history of Gov't/military intelligence and what is now on the cutting edge of
research, including artificial hormones to make people unafraid, and robot/man development.

[chknltl]

6. I was rootin' 4 the robot to grab that hockey stick....

.....walk outside and beat that guy's car up!

[SCantiGOP]

7. That's not a robot

There is a man in there, and judging from his walk in the snow it is a very very drunk man.


I do have to agree with the earlier poster that I was hoping the robot would stick that hockey stick up the guy's butt.