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[–] dave@feddit.uk 72 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They seem to do more damage to themselves when falling over than actually inflicting anything on their opponent…

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s true of a few BattleBots contenders.

[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 61 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I can picture these wearing cop uniforms, running you down at night for jaywalking ,and believe it may be one of our possible futures.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I’m pretty sure the odds of this are 100%. Except it’ll be military bots… and they’ll be purging the poor and middle class, because once you have robots to do all the other stuff the next step is to reduce the population.

If you and your group control all the raw resources and manufacturing is fully automated, and you have robots smart enough to do all the manual tasks, you don’t need profit, you get to wipe out most of the population and create your paradise.

Not enough people realize we are morlocks, and the Billionaires think they are the Eloi

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But everything is driven by profit. I don't think the 1% will be able to pivot to reduced profit for better stability/comfort.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Profit only matters when you don’t already own everything, power is the only thing that matters.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

But how quickly will hackers be able to gain total control of them? Cops will probably have the administrator password as "password123" or some shit. Or maybe instead of engaging in combat directly, they'll just be running humanoid cameras, lunging after you no matter how quickly you run, or whatever fence you jump over. Long gone will be the days when you could simply outrun the overweight, poorly trained cops. Now these things will be just inches behind you, the whole way blaring sirens and recording your every move. 😐

[–] Archimedes@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The spinning jump kick of the law.

Stop right there! Or I won't be able to jump kick you!

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[–] the_xboxkiller@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 week ago

The acronym immediately made me think of this.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’d still put my money on a battle bot any day of the week.

I love battle bots

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"What?! Your heads off!"

"Tis' but a flesh wound! HAVE AT YEE!"

*I love how one of the presenters is choke-laughing the whole time after it's head comes off

[–] Monument@piefed.world 8 points 1 week ago

I feel like that should be disqualifying. Or at least, the robots should be compelled to use the swinging head as a mace.

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This looks sad. The obsession with humanoid robots is making less and less sense by the decade.

Support your local robot battle scene.

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[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 21 points 1 week ago

This show is obviously just to bait people into making better fighting robots for the military, free of charge.

[–] Andonyx@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Pointless if their heads don't pop straight up and make a "ziiiiiiing" sound.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

They didn't even hit each other

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They way they get up is pretty cool, but they each have one jump kick attack and nothing else? Those deathbot matches from the early aughts are way cooler.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

They learned from Mortal Combat to spam their best move.

Turns out it's a mirror battle.

[–] lavacake1111@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can we have Hugh Jackman pilot a robot?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He can't, he's busy fellating Rupert Murdoch.

[–] Monument@piefed.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What?

(Out of the loop. Don’t know how to unpack that statement.)

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's literally the godfather to Murdoch's daughter.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well that’s fucking disappointing wtf

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

yeah seeing him dancing in those stupid fucking AGI commercials now makes me hate him. I tried to watch a cute movie called the Sheep Detectives, and as soon as I saw his dumb ass face I had to turn it off.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I know. :(

Still a great Logan, but hard to imagine Logan playing at/with billionaire balls like that.

[–] ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess it is like watching toddlers walk, but why the random breakout into dance moves? Also how do they target? Seems like they just generally point at the other one.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My guess is that they are remote controlled and the operators of the white robot saw that they were winning, so they hit the dance button in the hopes of scoring some points with the audience.

Instead of fighting each other they should do a laundry folding competition. That would be really impressive!

[–] ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Indeed, a fitted sheet competition!

[–] errer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Sounds like a strong way to get the robots to want to kill us all

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Looks real the same way WWE looks real. I mean, you gotta love the skill/tech used to achieve these feats, but real robots fighting with no restraint wouldn't need to take a few seconds to dick around after every kick.

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is pretty fucking futuristic, even if they do miss each other a lot!

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It doesn't look like they're autonomous to me, it looks like they have a pre-programmed set of movements (like the kick-variants we're seeing, and the "get up" motion), and being controlled by someone outside the ring. That also fits with the way they're missing: it's hard to get proper alignment when you're looking from the side, and the pattern for how they're missing looks a lot to me like how you often miss if you try to line up e.g. a remote controlled toy car on an opening to drive through when you're sitting off to the side.

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, totally.

Still really futuristic!

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh absolutely! It's cool as hell! I think it could be even cooler if they put a camera in the robots head so that the controller could get the right point of view, that would probably make it more easy to be accurate.

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[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Total dogshit game

[–] QueenMidna@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's very clear none of y'all remember the seminal film Real Steel

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I remember when it came out, but I only saw it last year! IT BLEW ME AWAY. I wasn't expecting a film of that quality!

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[–] kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Flashback to my first attempts at playing the original arcade Virtua Fighter

Should get Jaleel White to host it.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

When I was a kid we had a game called Rockem Sockem Robots (sp?) and knocking the head of was the definition of winning.

[–] wraekscadu@vargar.org 4 points 1 week ago

This looks so fun haha

[–] bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are they autonomous or do they have pilots? I feel like a human touch would make the fights a lot cooler. Like in that one Love, Death and Robots episode.

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It's like watching blindfolded "show" martial artists

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

OMF2097 had really good music...

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago
[–] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Looks like they got a ways to go yet

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