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Could humanoid robots replace people on the battlefield? Compared with risking human lives — and with all the political backlash and risks of stress-induced war crimes and trauma — humanoid soldiers offer a more resilient, restrained, and precise alternative. Robots do not suffer from fatigue or fear and can... operate continuously in extreme conditions while immune from radiation, chemicals, or biological agents. But the counterargument is chilling: humanoid soldiers have lower political and ethical barriers to initiating conflict, blur responsibility for any abuses, and further dehumanize warfare. In the latest episode of AI, Explained by Humans, TIME editor-at-large Charlie Campbell visited a company making these robots to see the war technology they're selling to governments around the world and interviewed experts on the potential implications. Read the full story here:show more

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John: "Over in China, they’re doing robot Olympics. They’re doing marathons and all sorts of stuff." Figure founder Brett Adcock: “We look at the distribution of what humans do that is useful, and we [designed our humanoid] to do as much of that as possible.” “These things where we run marathons, or we do backflips, or we do karate moves—they’re not in the main part of the distribution. They don’t matter. And if you really want to size for those, you’re going to build a really expensive and unsafe robot that’s hard to manufacture.” “People want the $10,000 humanoid that can do general-purpose work. We want it to do laundry and dishes and be a companion. I want to ship robots at scale into the workforce to do logistics and healthcare, and build buildings and data centers.” "I don't need [our humanoid] to do backflips to do any of that work. I want robots building other robots."

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Again, people should really pay attention to the Chinese company Unitree making these robots (and selling them - by the thousands - to consumers for a rather low $1,300): The founder is on the record saying that he ultimately wants to create "general-purpose household robots that can assist homeowners in various tasks such as washing dishes, cleaning floors, making beds and cooking". In short the humanoid helper robots that we've been seeing in sci-fi movies for decades. At this stage, if any company in the world has a shot of getting there first, it's probably them.

Arnaud Bertrand

517,173 views • 2 years ago