2024: The Year of Humanoid Robots? (+ More Tech News)

[@MOSFETnet]

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[@Leonardvgend]

Happy new year!

[@epg-6]

I've been dreaming about this industry taking off since I was a kid.

[@LeePrzy]

And how old are you?

[@Citrusautomaton]

@@LeePrzyAnywhere from 18 to 107.

[@distorta]

Me too, except they were nightmares stemmed from the Terminator movies.

[@kennethelliott9248]

@@distorta and that’s why this industry will never take off in dumbed-down America.

[@distorta]

@@kennethelliott9248 No bud, having a super intelligence beyond our understanding is more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

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[@averagehummus]

can't wait to see what 2024 will bring!

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[@williamirwin6826]

Another excellent video, well done and happy new year

[@JubletsKrublets]

Thank you for all your hard work

[@raoultesla2292]

Your the best. Murray-Smith is on my feed. Enjoy how you a human, and do not push.

[@Russmayra]

Thanks for mentioning Robert. He is the best

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Great recap! Subbed!

[@williamhart4896]

A great year to You as well may it be a good one and thanks for this years content

[@AAvfx]

Happy New Year 2024

[@AngeloXification]

Something I noticed about myself while walking up stairs trying to use as little energy as possible.. I end up walking like many of these bots.

[@ceasnov]

Happy new year and all that

[@diraziz396]

Happy New Year - Cheers

[@21EC]

0:34 - I think it is Teleoperation (so a person controls it) many of their videos show Teleop vids of their robot AFAIk

[@LiquidArgon]

I always look forward to your content!

[@bearnaff9387]

Is Robert Murray-Smith the new secret god of tinkering and technology? His laughter whenever physics seems to work has always seemed slightly maniacal and threatening, like he's just seen evidence that his plans to successfully pull one over on reality. The TTRPG player and SCP Foundation fan in me just assumes that eventually he will complete the first part of his series, and anyone who watches all of it and follows along will be able to produce some kind of machine with a practical use that defies understood physics, but is somehow completely self-consistent, as if he has quietly rejected our reality and substituted his own.

[@FelixHelix]

How high were you when you wrote this? But seriously, I'm interested, but you gotta break this down more.

[@eg1525]

LMFAO@@FelixHelix

[@bearnaff9387]

​@@FelixHelix Dead sober, my dude. I'm just familiar with and sensitized to the "diabolical and inevitable plan" trope. "Leading someone down the garden path to a fundamental and self-consistent disproof of reality" is actually a fairly old story concept. It's usually an example of knowledge that causes madness that doesn't involve Elder Gods and is targeted at people whose identity may rest on their belief that they understand what the world _is_. IIRC there's an SCP object that causes suicide in mathematicians. It's a series of papers that cites a series of known and accepted mathematical proofs of various conjectures such that at the end it "proves" that 2+2=5. That itself doesn't kill, it's the fact that each step of the way relies on things that have to be true for various foundational ideas in math to work, and they're all used correctly, and that the correct idea to derive is that 2+2 definitely equals 5. The realization from this is that while math is consistent with itself, even arithmetic, is arbitrary and doesn't necessarily reflect reality. The suicidal urge alternatively comes from a feeling of having wasted their lives, or from reality suddenly being unfathomable by the best tools we have to understand it. OOf, this is long. The Murray-Smith version of the story is different in that instead of the disproof making the tools illegitimate, reality itself would be forced to bend to hid different "true" description, and those people who fully understood the new description of reality would be able to make the real world do slightly different things.

[@a.thales7641]

That you very much for this summary and happy new year! Now i have a reference video regarding the state of robotics.

[@realeatisaiy]

Happy new year!

[@gr1f1th]

Dude you sourced Robert Murray Smith! I've watched that guy for probably a decade and I've never seen anyone mention him. He's full of great ideas.

[@mervstash3692]

He's definitely full of something.......

[@FrickinCCDeVileV]

Nice format

[@LumenSeeker]

Freaking Awesome stuff! Happy New Year!!

[@jamie.goodson]

I don't know if anyone's told you this, but you sound like Holly (the ship's AI) from Red Dwarf. Kinda ironic haha. Anyway, great vid!

[@JJs_playground]

I'm so excited for all the companies entering the humanoid robot space. I've been dreaming about this since I was a kid and seeing Data on ST:TNG.

[@HermitKing731]

Dreaming about what? Your job getting replaced? Not that you had a job as a kid.

[@JJs_playground]

@@HermitKing731 actually I've had a job since I was 12 years old.

[@green_crow-b9v]

Keep crying on every comment about It ​@@HermitKing731

[@idrisabdi1397]

Its my dream come true, i am very excited about this!

[@dantes4729]

boston dynamics havent released a video of them improving the atlas bot in years and its ridiculous. Why havent they shown any progress since that video of them u posted?

[@PicklemanYouTube]

It’s because they’ve reached a point where they can’t really upgrade or advance any further, that’s why it’s time for humanoid robots powered by A.I, because of its limitless potential.

[@mervstash3692]

​@PicklemanKZbin you kids think AI is this magic maguffin that you can just plug into anything and it will revolutionise it. AI is not even close to being a reality yet. Tech bros repurposed it's meaning to fool the simple minded into believing it's something it's not. All of these robots just repeat the commands they are given. Simple as that. If you think they are doing anything beyond that, then I have some magic beans to sell you

[@mervstash3692]

BD release videos all the time. With actual witnesses present. What are you talking about?

[@dantes4729]

@@mervstash3692 them posting videos of atlas waving while wearing a santa hat or spot doing a new dance isnt an update. An update is their earlier atlas video being able to open a door and do a basic run, into a transformation of being able to flip ,run on platforms and throw/catch boxes

[@mervstash3692]

@@dantes4729 yeah there is a lot more than that mate. Go on any of their social media to see hundreds of videos of their robots doing all sorts of things. Again, with witnesses. Their videos show the actual progress it makes. Each time it does something new. In reality this all takes a long time to make huge advances. Not everyone just fakes it with lame green screen to hide all the tethers and controls, or blatent CGI model renders & pretends their robot goes from picking up blocks with 1 hand, to supposedly about to replace workers within a 6 month gap.

[@about-R]

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[@Yaxoi]

The pilot AR glasses are pretty sick

[@kennethelliott9248]

Every few years we get some new robot tech and everyone speculates: “is this the year robots take over? Is it? is it?” And everyone forgets until the next few years when the cycle starts all over again. In my opinion, robots will stay in this cycle until someone actually combines AI (like CHATGPT) with a robot. Until they can think they’re just dexterous tin cans.

[@Zripas]

chatgpt isn't really and AI which could do any real decisions on its own, its just big library of things from which code picks more accurate answer. If Ai keeps progressing at same pace we are like a decade or more until actual AI which could actually overtake anything.

[@MrNote-lz7lh]

@@Zripas Everything you said in that comment was incorrect.

[@Zripas]

@@MrNote-lz7lh Feel free to correct me then... What was wrong and what is the correct answer?

[@Nell_Hell]

​@@Zripashe bitched out bc u were correct lmao

[@UsefulClips]

What? No mention of Apptronik Apollo?

[@ZacharyLamatrice]

getting a second degree as we speak in software engineering. Always wanted to work on robots I'm making it a reality.

[@ALPHA.Mods.1]

Hey, Whatever happened to NODE?

[@MOSFETnet]

I'm working on an enormous project that is taking a very long time

[@ALPHA.Mods.1]

@@MOSFETnet fair enough, cannot wait!

[@fritz1990]

Just hoping for a general purpose bot that can clean and cook. To come home to a clean house and a hot meal would be awesome.

[@TankUni]

I wonder how long when after ordering something online, there's a knock on the door and opening it, I find a bot standing there, holding my package.

[@mikestonez4928]

Who was the guy wasting all the water on the ground?

[@markmuller7962]

2024 is definitely the year of robotics

[@Theta111]

Developers should really focus on ankles this year ahah It looks amazing overall and then ankles look like pirate sticks "thatll do it boys lets have some beer"

[@azhuransmx126]

January 2026 in CES of Las Vegas gonna be the year for the Domestic Robotics Boom around the world.

[@TheOddStranger]

I thought to myself 'omg anothed ai/robotics channel with poor quality connect' then I watched your video and I really enjoyed it, also I really like your voice, no homo. Keep it up.

[@delliscool4924]

I hope some robotic company deploys rent robots in airports and supermarkets to carry visitors bags from-to cars instead of dumb carts.

[@nsbd90now]

I totally want a little AGI friend when they go sentient!

[@Saint.questions]

So funny.. i was just playing terminator..... fun times.

[@oingpla]

Happy New Year! ✌🏼🌍

[@cooleregg5577]

I think all what is missing is a flying car, and we'll be officially in the future ..

[@caty863]

all of these general purpose robots won't do much sh**t if no new breakthroughs are achieved in the battery tech. Apple can't find a battery with enough juice to power their VR set without a tether; how long then can a human-sized robot go on a battery conducting demanding tasks?

[@rockstargold7536]

True that

[@Nell_Hell]

Wonder if we can somehow wirelessly charge ther batteries

[@Atmatan]

Lots of people saying 2024 is going to be the year of humanoid robots, but no: 2024 is going to be the year of new batteries. Sodium ion batteries are already hitting EVs and we have a lot of new tech ready to come out.

[@caty863]

I am really rooting for this to become a reality. But I fear this optimism is unfounded given the many false premises we have had in the past where new battery technologies were demonstrated in lab but failed to reach production.

[@Atmatan]

@@caty863 Can you name any such examples?

[@wemakecookie]

Sodium batteries are still relatively new. They won't be in many cars in 2024. They allow for cheaper EVs, which is great.

[@Atmatan]

@@wemakecookie They will be in at least one type of vehicle in 2024 though, and more than zero is more than enough right now.

[@JinKee]

Once you have a robot that can use existing human tools for all phases of its production from raw materials extraction to assembly and finishing to programming and sales and marketing then the marginal cost of new robots drops to $0. Also the cost of labour drops to $0. You’re not dealing with a new technology, you’re dealing with a new species.

[@UsefulClips]

You're not dealing with a new species, you're dealing with an unemployment rate of 90%.

[@SquirrelNuts-r1u]

Then you don't need a human workforce anymore.

[@JinKee]

@@SquirrelNuts-r1u correct. It will be impossible for people to strike to negotiate for better conditions because they won’t have jobs. The owners of the robots will have their every whim satisfied and other humans stop being useful tools and become competition for scarce resources.

[@zacharychristy8928]

Labor isn't the only cost though. And this also assumes the robot production line would require 0 human input (including maintenance) which isn't true of any machine ever made, let alone any robot.

[@mervstash3692]

You watch too many Scifis and vapourware clowns

[@jasongooden917]

funny to see Robox Rese4 in real life

[@ShannonJosephGlomb]

Faster plesse ❤❤❤

[@pauldannelachica2388]

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[@Americansarepussies2thefailure]

The key to getting rid of life's biggest problems us humans especially in the embarrassing states of stupidity & trash

[@chrisj3938]

Is the voice in this video AI generated? The cadence is a bit off, no?

[@TroyRubert]

I'm ride or die with Optimus. Who else is with me?

[@Atmatan]

Sorry, I have self-respect.

[@TroyRubert]

@@Atmatan lol, apparently not.

[@Atmatan]

@@TroyRubert Have you taken a look at yourself lately? You're a grown ass man, dude.

[@TroyRubert]

@@Atmatan and you are here hating on me for expressing myself? Why? Try not being a jerk if possible. 😊

[@Atmatan]

@@TroyRubert 'Hating'? You must think you're pretty entitled huh?

[@stickynorth]

2024 will the be the year humanoid robots will start to become mainstream... At least I hope...

[@HermitKing731]

And when they do then waht? How will they improve anything? tell me.

[@Nell_Hell]

​@@HermitKing731 do you not have a glimpse of imagination?

[@HermitKing731]

@@Nell_Hell All i can imagine is these things replacing all our jobs and making us lazier.

[@Nell_Hell]

@HermitKing731 all i can imagine is using bots to fight each other in a ring controlled via a controller

[@Nell_Hell]

@@HermitKing731 or controlling them with a VR headset on other planets

[@Ghost-boy188]

Y’all get ready for Detroit become human become real life

[@ConanDuke]

Why do they all kind of look like the RoboCop 2 prototype that blows its own brains out?

[@ankursahu269]

Big investment of this technology please sir

[@SpacerZVEVO]

AI channel?

[@jcho806]

iRobot was set in the year 2035, could well be more predictive than we think.

[@Yaxoi]

At this rate we'll live in iRobot by 2030

[@kiddfpv]

Bruh it’s so creepy

[@Tubeytime]

Humans design robots like themselves, I wonder what kind of robots AI will design?

[@nonenothingnull]

Even welders are gonna get their jobs taken lol

[@jb5music]

I suppose just like full autonomous FSD Tesla's... they'll get in front of us and walk spastically slow just for... "safety"

[@Zripas]

That's the thing, Ai like FSD needs to outperform humans multiple times before it gets accepted, so any small mistake is always overblown to extreme proportions, so it can't do things fast and needs to do everything as safe as possible to minimize instances of it doing any type of mistakes.

[@mervstash3692]

😂😂😂 AI is not a real thing champ. And FSD is the biggest lemon in technology on the planet. Not to mention the fraud of telling everyone it's ready to use as a robotaxi and can earn 100% ROI per year.

[@Zripas]

@@mervstash3692 Have you seen FSD v12? Calling something lemon technology when we have actual videos of that technology performing exceptionally well, is just silly.

[@mervstash3692]

@Zripas FSD v12 means literally fk all dude. It's a patch to fix bugs. It doesn't advance the product years forward like every other simpleton thinks. Tell me when it gets to level 3 autonomy. It's been level 2 for nearly a decade now. That's the only progress that matters. You have no idea WTF any of it means and you just believe anything the vapourware king tells you.

[@Zripas]

@@mervstash3692 Perfect example of people like you knowing nothing about a thing and pretending to know everything about it. FSD v12 is a huge move forwards from v11 due to it going into end to end processing. There is no longer a code like which says that car needs to stop at red light, or that it needs to stop at stop sign or any of that, everything like that is gone with this new version, yet its still stopping at red lights, stopping at stop signs and so on. Why? Because its been trained to do it instead of it being hard coded to do it... Hard coding "stop at stop sign" is exponentially more simple than training it to do it from basic raw videos, but it being trained to do it is exponentially better solution as it can handle exponentially wider range of random situations. Tell you know nothing about AI without telling me know nothing about AI...

[@rraallvv]

I find it a bit redundant to give opinions (I/we think/believe... etc) in the videos of this kind of informative channel, aka editorializing, but the content is pretty good otherwise.

[@DavidBrandão-q2w]

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[@strategistaow3520]

Guys be happy robots will take your job

[@rockstargold7536]

And you get the pay 💰

[@tombouie]

Thks buts ; 1st Current Artifical Intelligence is at best Emulative Intelligence 2nd ???Why would we want our machines to be constrained to our limiting human-form??

[@Atmatan]

2: empathy, mostly.

[@kaasmeester5903]

2) A humanoid robot is a general-purpose robot; it can share our space, do what we do, and use the tools that we use. Look at the specialized robots we already have around the house: vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, automatic cat litter boxes, and so on. And they all kind of suck... they make our lives a little easier, but a humanoid robot could do so much more. If we'd get a specialized robot for all chores around the house, we'd end up with a huge pile of them. And I agree with the previous poster: it would make them more acceptable to have them around us all the time.

[@arashyusefi1889]

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[@QuitelRumble12]

Falto el de Unitree la empresa China que desarrollo los robot mas resistentes

[@SabedCode]

Welcome to a new area of Unemployment

[@AC-97..]

Its still very far from T-600 or T-800 models 😂

[@DB.Shorts]

I can't wait till McDonalds starts using humanoid robots so they can start offering good food and service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I know I can cook at home. Tis but a joke :)

[@thewhiteskull4003]

This is how you get terminators

[@HermitKing731]

Well i guess its the end of humanity. It was nice while it lasted.

[@BlueJDev]

Nice to see RMS get a mention, such a great channel. I genuinely hope all these humanoid robots being created have a big red kill switch on them! We really are entering the phase thats leading up to films like irobot and terminator, hopefully humankind learnt something from them...

[@Atmatan]

I learned two things: 1. Treat non-human sentients with respect regardless of whether or not you _think_ or _feel_ that they are sentient. 2. Learn how to build and always carry an EMP.

[@tbcrulezz]

we are so fucked

[@crimsonhermit]

$ military $

[@PhilfreezeCH]

I still don‘t think humanoid robots make any sense outside research. Why build a factory and then add humanoid robots that will always be slower than if you just build the lines around specialized robots? Also, why legs? They are significantly more complicated and most factories already have elevators and stuff since they need to move equipment, I just don‘t get it. Additionally, I doubt they will be even comparably fast to humans in this decade which will likely make humans a better choice in almost all remaining use-cases. Still, the research going into it is obviously worthwhile for more general advanced in robotics and related fields. If you can build a humanoid robot, you can most likely also build a more specialized one re-using most of your electronics and software.

[@raul36]

That is. But they need funding and that is why these videos are created, they encourage young people to study STEM careers, etc. In short, they accelerate technological progress. Until there are improvements in battery usage or new architectures, humanoid robots will simply be insignificant. Movies about robots are great, but everything has a money cost. Capitalism will never disappear.

[@zacharychristy8928]

Agreed. The people saying they'll be the future aren't understanding the needs of the potential customers. Buying a machine with legs it doesn't need is ALWAYS going to be more expensive than building a table in the spot it never moves from. Hell, if you need it to move you can just install wheels.

[@tommytalks77]

Tesla bot, lol, what a scam!

[@flashkraft]

Getting around on two legs is so awkward and unnecessary. They should be on Segway wheels.

[@Zripas]

And when it encounters stairs? What's then? Cry in binary?

[@flashkraft]

@@Zripas spider legs maybe. anything but two legs

[@Zripas]

@@flashkraft Spider legs? So when it encounters narrow path, what's then? Cry in binary? Two legs is actually best option here as environment these robots should operate in was made by us for us, aka everything is made to fit 2 legged creature with human shaped body. There are some tasks which could benefit from wheels or spider legs or properlers or flippers, but to have universal robot you will need humanoid one.

[@James_T_Quirk]

Yeah, well hopefully they will not be drafted ...

[@educatingfool216]

Why Bot manufacturers keep giving their bots five digits per hand. Bots can have four or even three digits per hand and still can function perfectly. Unless, Bots like to play piano, guitar or any instrument that requires a full hand with five digits!

[@markmuller7962]

Think about it more

[@caty863]

come to think about it, this is really a silly thing to do. All these additional motors and actuators add to the complexity of the thing with so little return.

[@educatingfool216]

@@markmuller7962 maybe you should read more carefully and think about it, cheers!

[@markmuller7962]

@@educatingfool216 You don't get it ah? You probably think you're very intelligent

[@educatingfool216]

@@markmuller7962 I do understand, making Bots to look more human friendly, and all its human abilities. However, if we follow the path of evolution, the little pinky is redundant. Just look at any video of Bots picking up objects! I did make a silly comment out of frustration, nothing else! Take care friend and a happy new year, cheers

[@roxyjane101]

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[@kimsan3981]

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[@alanday5255]

No ince they can actually be useful then you can make this video.

[@Australia_QLD]

has no one seen terminator? we're fucked!

[@Atmatan]

Your fear fuels the demons you pray against.

[@markmuller7962]

You've seen too much of it probably

[@Nell_Hell]

Movies don't translate to real life lil bub

[@Australia_QLD]

@@Nell_Hell no shit bub.

[@BetterWorld0]

Tesla Bot won’t be ready until 2027-28 word from Elon. When they start selling them it will make Tesla the most valuable company literally trillions.

[@mervstash3692]

😂😂😂 no it won't lad. Their robot is more pathetic than robots high school kids made in the 90s. You need to come out of that Elon stan bubble and check out reality. Or do you fall for every faked Tesla demo?

[@Zripas]

@@mervstash3692 Its hard to say if you are serious or just trying to look like some troll. Give us example of robot which was made in under 3 years and can do things which Tesla bot does which is based on neural network and not on preprogrammed movements, we will wait.

[@pierelenigus8598]

We need to tax the balls off of every company (private and public) and it's owners(board of directors, stock holders, executive staff, etc) that employs this technology. This is a giant step backwards for humanity and those that play in these waters owe a great debt to the rest of the human race. I would even go so far as to say that any company that employs this tech should automatically(see what I did there) become public property and any realized profits should be equally distributed to the communities that lose work opportunities to this detrimental endeavor.

[@wagbagsag]

No need to tax the companies, just the individuals making a profit. And yea, widespread use of robots will require UBI/UBS

[@Atmatan]

2024 will be an important political year. Make it count.

[@kaasmeester5903]

@@wagbagsag It's an interesting question; wealth distribution at the moment is for a large part through labour. The question is how we ought to organize this when labour is no longer the norm. UBI smells too much of socialism / communism, with a basic income that comes with tight controls and a distinct lack of freedom. Instead of that, perhaps we should not have UBI but a Citizen's Dividend. The difference: a UBI is a stipend you receive courtesy of the government, and they can change this, or even decide to pay you in kind rather than money, providing housing and food and such instead of paying you. And removing your choices in the process. A Citizens Dividend is not a courtesy but a right. And it would give you choices, such as saving or investing part of your earnings into stocks or bonds. Or starting your own business and reaping the rewards. A dude called Marshall Brain wrote an interesting short SF story about these questions. The book is called "Manna", you can get it as a free public domain ebook.

[@mattrodriguez424]

Disliked due to you not mentioning tesla bot

[@DrikyBotTV]

He did at 1:12 min

[@markmuller7962]

Disliked you for disliking him for no reason

[@Citrusautomaton]

Let’s hope that when AGI is invented, and mass-automation starts happening, that government put in place a UBI or something similar as a proactive measure rather than a reactive one.🫡