Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut
I love this so much. I'd love to find one with sound. In the meantime I'm just watching this over and over humming the Rocky theme.
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Initially, it walked well but people complained it looked too alien and creepy.
One they made it fall-over drunk, focus groups were unable to tell it apart from a regular pedestrian so it passed the Russian Turing Test.
They just told the robot it got drafted.
I'd almost created a new account to upvote you again
The dude trying to cover it up with the piece of cloth at the end was chef's kiss.
Almost makes it believable if they call it a haha funny comedy act as a cover up.
Yeah, the frantic amateurishness could not have been better choreographed
It's too late! I saw everything.
I like to call it the "Don't embarrass comrade Putin curtain"
Someone's getting defenestrated over this
The best thing Putin has done is to bring the verb defenstrate back.
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He gets knocked down,
does not get up again
You're never keep him up again
He sings a song that reminds him of the vodka,
he drinks a drink that reminds him of the vodka.
Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc
Hey, oldies!
Chumbawamba played a protest in DC that I went to (not sure which one, 2002?). They were pretty progressive and just made it big on the radio with that one song.
He plays an mp3 that reminds him of the good times.
He plays a YouTube that reminds him of the bad times.
This what happens when you use a vodka cell to power your AI.
Frankly, if the thing is that untested, I'm not sure that I'd want to have the developers or the audience that close to it without shielding. And it should have a remote E-stop switch (though maybe it did here, and that's why it froze up).
You know those Boston Dynamics videos? Unless the stuff is pretty mature, they've got those protective walls or are interacting with the robots with hockey sticks.
Ex:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYwekersccY
EDIT: Actually, looking at the Russian video again, I think that the AIdol people don't have a remote E-stop button and were instead fumbling around with one built onto its back there, since that's when it stopped moving.
Security? This is Russia, they sent 1000+ people to die every day for no reason lol
I mean, yeah, but that's wartime policy. Like, most countries are willing to take more risks and accept more costs if they consider is necessary to fight a war.
But as far as I know, doing this demo successfully isn't something that Russia needs for any kind of war purposes.
Yeah, using it for military purposes probably hasn't crossed their minds. 🙄
they keep bullying him in your example video ;=;
There's some company that has done some CGI videos making fun of the Boston Dynamics use of a hockey stick for separation, do videos that have humans pretending to be Boston Dynamics people abusing a CGI robot.
kagis
Corridor Digital, as "Bosstown Dynamics":
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22bosstown+dynamics%22
e.g.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjCWfuvYxQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RIHnK0_NE
Are we at the stage where nation states show they TOO have an army of robots in a new arms race?
I find this strangely comforting if this is the future of warfare. Basically amounts to using
these
To settle disputes.
Yeah but like, if humans aren't dying there's no stakes. Eventually one robot army must chew through the other to get to the human soldiers or civilians. Then you just eventually just have a robot army massacring a populous with no internal morality.
It'll be like the Cold War, essentially an economic war.
But it will only last weeks, not decades.
That depends on how strong each economy is. If both sides have sufficient ability to replace the bots, it could go on for some time.
Poor robo! But the guy. With the sheet. I died.
We’ve seen everything. We’ve seen it all.
So telling how it kept walking after it was lying face down. No proprioception, no mems feedback, of course, you could tell that from the shuffle.
At best it seems like AI driving a remote control car :/
It walks like one of those robots for children. Just shuffling around awkwardly. At least add a accelerometer or something. And when it falls it shuts off or at least go WHAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa.
If it screamed and cursed as it fell down, I would probably give it a pass.
Lol. The way both men trailed it makes it clear they were very much expecting this to happen
Yeah, a lot of people probably thought everything was fine and didn't even seen the gaff thanks to the curtain guy's quick thinking.
I do wonder if they should first work on an Ai driven automated curtain though before making the next AIDOL, you really can't trust that every curtain guy will have such catlike Reflexes.
Guy in the front row: "hey, walk forward the same number of steps as there are R's in 'resurrection'."
Vodkabot.
Looked like it had quite a few drinks before going on stage 😆
It really is Russian
The robot was trained on Russian social media videos.
Aidol? Really?
They were going for "Aidol Fit-lair" but it was too obvious
That could have gotten embarrassing if they hadn't had those two guys ready to smoothly cover the stage with a curtain. Close call!
Video doesn't load for me.
tries running yt-dlp on the page URL to grab the URL of the actual video file involved
Try:
https://video.euronews.com/mp4/SHD/29/22/96/00/SHD_PYR_2922960_20251113112832.mp4
I just found it on YouTube thank though. Think it didn't want to work because I rejected all its cookies.
Me neither.
Matushka, can we have robots at home?
No, we already have robots at home.
Robots at home:
Total terminator thing, off to the battlefield with it. Put it in a golf cart, maybe it can leave the foot on the gas 🤣
You don’t crush the robot revolution, in Russia the robot revolution crushes you, apparently by falling on you.
Created in its maker's image
It was walking so smooth untill it tripped. I'm sure a minor software patch will fix that.
You really don't realize how quickly you can debug until your office mate gets pushed out a window.
Did the AI submit a call to Life Alert!?
Help!
Help!
I've fallen and I....I.....
Rebooting.....
Help!...
Anyone have a link where I can watch this without allowing the website and their 194 partners access to my info?
Even Yeltsin was better on stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRysHHzLAmM
I guess those scientist guys all working on A.I. never gave cocaine and Monster Energy a try.
This has Robocop vibes...
Especially Robocop 2. I love when they show the blooper reel and the exec guy grimaces and touches his arm.
What the hell is this website? Every time I press play it just takes me to a different video.
I wonder who ever thinks that's a good idea. Like you pick him up and have a laugh at it. Everyone saw it and everyone saw how it's clearly a shit robot. Just like that American counterpart Neo or what it's called. It's clearly shit, just have fun with it.
Why do they have to only have two legs? They should make the robots Pleakely style.
lack of imagination
Yep.
Another day in the Fake-AI apocalypse.
... if anybody can workshop that phrase into something snappier, catchier, that can easily fit into a headline, please do so.
The sooner this all blows up, the less actual damage it will do in the long run.
Call that uh... accelerationist anti-accelerationism.
Maybe it was Vladimir himself in a suit?
Model B1D3N is working as designed