DARPA Robot Derps

Fails from day 1 of the DARPA robotics challenge:

Chappiehaha it’s like they showed up drunk.  Not quite Chappie levels of agility yet.  If it’s anything like the movies though, these robots will definitely have the last laugh when they turn on mankind and try to kill us all.

There’s a short article at IEEE Spectrum which you can read.  Some of the comments are pretty funny / butthurt.

Gat tip: Luke


Comments

14 responses to “DARPA Robot Derps”

  1. derpmaster Avatar
    derpmaster

    This kind of stuff is in the hundreds of man-years to develop. Kind of have to feel bad for the college kids (undergrads do a lot of the work on these projects) who spent long nights and weekends on this shit just to see it fall over.

  2. Beardy Avatar

    I for one welcome our new robotic overlords!

  3. lucusloc Avatar
    lucusloc

    Blocked already. . .

    1. ENDO-Mike Avatar
      ENDO-Mike

      Back now lucas!

  4. Taylor TX Avatar
    Taylor TX

    Damn that was a quick block. So what cylon models are these exactly :)

    1. ENDO-Mike Avatar
      ENDO-Mike

      Yesssss, it’s back!

  5. Gizmo Avatar

    It was possibly blocked for a BS copyright claim. Likely some other channel stole the video then put a copyright on it so they could claim it as their own.

    1. ENDO-Mike Avatar
      ENDO-Mike

      I believe it was actually on the IEEE Spectrum YouTube page!

      1. Gizmo Avatar

        Yes, some foreign youtube channel most likely stole the video then copyright claimed it. This is becoming a big problem on youtube. There was TONS of people stealing SHOT show videos and reposting them to pull hits, this is the ultimate cock block for youtube hits.

        1. ENDO-Mike Avatar
          ENDO-Mike

          Ugh that’s brutal :/ I had no idea that was possible.

          1. Gizmo Avatar

            Claim has thankfully been removed. Yeah it’s an automated process so all you need to do is steal a video, put a copyright on it, then report it.

  6. Hashtagbutt Avatar
    Hashtagbutt

    So anyone else find it funny darpa says well give you a few dollars to make this for us then we’ll buy the rights and make millions if not billions of monies on your product which youll never recive a dime for and if you dnt sign over rights they just take your research and improve it by putting a few more LED lights on it lol then its a totally diffrent product and not yours and you get nothing so fucked up

  7. MrMaigo Avatar
    MrMaigo

    Come on Skynet, get your shit together.

  8. Jim Jones Avatar
    Jim Jones

    That robot @ 0:55 copied your patented “Can’t Even” patch move. No wonder that copyright infringement claim came in quick!