An actual, real-world use for robot dogs 

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Wall-E vibes

Id assume they would have a second doggo for redundancy, but the point still stands

@@FantomRick that's what I came here to say :D

@@DRakeTRofKBam given the price of one, I think the redundancy is calling in an engineer. Even flying him in is probably cheaper than buying a second one to sit around for backup

@@Soken50 how much do they cost?

You keep breaking things and the robot keeps coming around to fix them

You're that ninja....

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Or you have to defend it / explore it, and your only companion is the robot dog

Psycho Mantis?!

It needs a friend

@@lazergurka-smerlin6561 A robot cat whose only job is to make mischief for the robot dog to spot?

@@lazergurka-smerlin6561 _It does not need a friend_

@@spartanwar1185 damn cold

Wasn't that Mo's job?

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Then we need a robot cat so they can play.

I can absolutely see a similarly-minded programmer adding a routine to detect & greet other robots in the facility - maybe do a little wiggle or wave. Wouldn’t really add too much time to the inspections or other tasks, and we can collectively “aww” at the videos when they go viral.

when it walked up the stairs I audibly said "awww!"

@@gertrudesuzan9253 Aww!

Underrated

He's literally doing this for living.

Nice!! :D

@@linwengong3264 overrated

@@Lunarfox rated

Did they not see what happened to Tower Bridge just after Tom's visit?

@@ragnkja *I T S A B I T L O U D I N H E R E*

@@toomuchiridium *W H A T*

What’s gonna break next week

150 tons of water per second flow through it. I'm sure that's not dangerous at all

Hahahaha

Okay, then we're sending the flea drones with a self-driving car, it's not 2001 anymore :)

@@retepaskab i'm sorry dave, you needed me to be able to interface wirelessly with the inspection enviroment, and has such allowed me to remotely connect to other devices and run my own code, those drones are now mine dave, watchu gonna do.

@@BlueberryWizard imma give them the flu

@@BlueberryWizard I'm going to turn you off

The future: the dog pissed beer in my cup

banana is good

Future: The dog is your homework

@@channelname4331 The past: the pissed dog in my beer cup

Future: the dog shot my homework

A true gentleman!

To be fair, no one really wants to hear what the interviewers opinion is, that's what FOX 'News' is for

@@rorychivers8769 I think your complaint applies to just about all news channels...

@@rorychivers8769 According to Tom Scott's presentation at the Royal Institute, everyone wants to hear from the personality, not from the expert. So much so that in videos where Tom Scott allows experts to speak, there's a noticeable dip in viewer retention when experts are speaking (Viewers literally just close the video). So in the case of this channel, people definitely do want to hear Tom Scott more than anyone else.

It should be normal to do that but it isnt somehow

It might make more sense in the long run to keep the lights off and have them remote controlled by the robot wherever needed or use lidar/infrared/sonar guidance for the robot and a spotlight mounted on the robot for visual inspections.

as a stupid guy that likes world building, thanks for the idea

To add to that idea: You could have huge thermal power plants, or maybe even fusion plants in, or close to the ocean to explain where the fuel is coming from. Or, even further in the future, maybe a dyson sphere.

Usher II

Have you read "There will come soft rains" by Ray Bradbury? It's a dystopian short story that examines exactly this theme.

Brilliant movie, one of my all time favourite Sci-Fi films.

In my mind 1972 is still 30 years ago haha

Yes, I saw that movie when I was a kid and have just fragmented memories... but I certainly remember the robots patrolling the spaceship! Well, here we are! Check out the movie on IMDB!

AMONG US

@@mechamudskipper kid go away

Obviously

LMAO 😂😂That's exact same thing I thought when I saw the robot

Of course

I understood that refrence.

Take that Boston dynamics

This is why you be polite to Alexa/Siri/Google Home/etc: be kind to the robots, and you will receive leniency when the Singularity is achieved

Darn it now I really really really want to play a game like that, we could even get Tom Scott to narrate.

Huh fallout and that pink thing

It probably doesn't help that I've seen these robodogs being fitted with automatic rifles a few days ago. The Verge, for example, has an article on it.

@@vojtechjanda9684 oh boy battlefield 2042

@@grimaffiliations3671 But Why? There is absolutely no reason for that. As a publicity stunt only?

It might not be done exploding

the 'real uses' are military. For example, look up 'Vision 60' - they are going to be used heavily in warfare to kill people

@@itemushmush used by police in the US, because ofc they had to cutify these robots before using them against people.

@@itemushmush Of course, most innovation comes from conflict

Have you seen WALL-E? :D

@@OuJej1 or 2001: A Space Odyssey

@@azertyQ or The Shining?

@@jtsotherone or Post-Lily's Proposal SCP-001?

GLADOS and the *cake*

Thanks for dooming humanity to enslavement and technological hell TED KACZYNSKI DID NOTHING WRONG To all the naysayers: read industrial society and its future, and quit being a bunch of low testosterone bootlickers.

@@anona8749 SO, you apply for the really hazardous and dangerous jobs then. Tell them you don't want the robot to do it you will do it instead. Shortens the gene pool if nothing else!

A question: if the power plants have no on-site humans, do the room lights need to be on? A follow-up question: can the Boston Dynamic RoboDogs operate a flashlight 🔦?

Boiling water is dangerous, can you send me one to make tea?

@@Jim1255783 The lights are on for safety reasons. But all of our robots need to operate in the dark as well. Thats why the all have lights .. incl. direct lights

There is only one use for a robot dog and its a strong weapons platform

@@big3erg993 Have you seen the video? That makes it at least two uses.

@@TheFrozenMister didnt you watch the video? Its comical. A security camera with a sensor is 1/10 the price

@@big3erg993 It's simply not though, you'd need a *very* large array of cameras to do what this is doing, and unless you put a 360 camera every foot or so, all high-end, high quality, with multiple features, you can't have the same as what this is doing. Not to mention the astoundingly larger coding job that would be. That would *not* be cheaper, or likely even feasible. This is a much cheaper method in terms of hardware, and I'm not sure how expensive the code development is, but the thing about that is it only needs to be done once (sorta). After that it's definitvely cheaper. Not to mention that this tech is developing, and not in a wistful far of dream way, we're watching uses emerge, and with every test case such as this, the hardware designs can be refined, and the code can be upgraded, along with data being collected to train that code, for various uses, far less trivial than this. I don't mean to imply that this wont be militarized, it certainly will (although likely as an equipment carrier and scouting tool before a weapons platform), but it's comical to disregard any and all possibility this has.

@@Red_Bastion Btw you know a "high-end" camera in an elevated position can distinguish people better then a ground level robo dog by almost 200m? In-fact unlike you thought it requires no coding at all

Horizon Zero Dawn has segments like that

Metroid Dread?

Or your the robot and somethings in the plant that you have to stop. Like a horror game.

soon it will be reality when these robots are employed as security guards

@@cactus5781 soon we will willingly give them guns

And it still wears the red shirt and grey hoodie.

Tom Bott

Bruh, Tom would still enjoy all the traveling and socializing, but Tom Bot will do all the research, fact finding, scripting, and production. It’ll also hold the boom mike and capture sound perfectly, even inside a power station.

"Hi, I'm not Tom Scott."

@HahThatsWhatSheSaid an integrated drone and 360 degree cameras on selfie sticks

Couldn't you just leave the problematic doors open or remove them entirely. Or as dumb as it may sound; install doggydoors?

Opening doors is a separate feature you have to pay for. That's even funny in some way.

@@carnosaur93 You mean leave fire doors open?

@ 残高 depending on number of sensors that needs to be deployed but the argument could be made that you are getting continuous real-time monitoring instead of waiting for the robot's report. It's cool to have the robot but it doesn't look practical

@@tmilesp robo dog probably has a lower failure rate and uses less power

the thing is, an array of cameras is more expensive and unreliable than one camera.

Having done some engineering interviews recently and gotten asked dumb, basic questions that anyone in their right mind would look up instead of memorize, I suspect that it wouldn’t be held against them. People seem to appreciate other people doing and knowing about mundane things.

"Guys the dam is gone" "What?" "I drove out here and it's just not here anymore

@@12-343 There are no graphite on the ground

But in the last part of the video, they literally say that there are not enough people, and the robots are only supplementing insufficient workforce

@@12-343 You took the wrong turn

Pissing beer in a cup is very much a great, practical application of the robot dog

I wouldn't be surprised if onahole robot dogs exist because of that idea you just mentioned lmao

And we also have police and military exploring the uses of it as a tool of data collection and illegal surveillance, so there's that too

Both are interesting applications.

@@Wolfsbane1100 There's an Air Force base(I think in Florida) that uses them for perimeter patrol in the swampy areas already. Spooky stuff.

Yup. For instance, they could implement low cost light load lifts that would bring the robots up and down. They could be really tiny (the lifts) and cost less than an actual staircase. It would probably make sense to do it, as the robot would spend less time moving and the lift would require less energy to bring the robot up, than the robot consumes by going up stairs.

@@CanIHasThisName -- Well, you could have trolley wires with cameras running back and forth like they have for football games. But these are hardly trouble free. It's worth the trouble for a football games with literally $million$ of advertising but sometimes, it's cheaper to have a real person spend a few hours a week at each plant.

@@GilmerJohn Well someone would have to install those trolleys, which would take a lot of money and resources (time and material), potentially more than the robot itself. The robot can be told to look at very specific things from very specific angles and it probably took a few hours for someone to bring it in and power it on. The rest was software. If you need additional readings, you install one sensor on the robot, whereas you'd need a whole bunch of sensors for the moving cameras. I genuinely think the robot is very close to being the ideal solution, if it ends up working as intended.

@@CanIHasThisName A simple ramp would be way more efficient in both cost and energy usage.

@@KainYusanagi We generally use stairs inside of buildings because they can be much steeper than a ramp, take up less space and require less material to build, therefore they are also cheaper. When you compare a small lift for the robot itself to a ramp, the amount of material required is trivial. The elevator would take up negligible amount of space, allowing for a much more efficient use of it and therefore be cheaper for the building as a whole as well (the building could be smaller). And the elevator would be more energy efficient bringing the robot up than the robot itself going up a ramp, especially if it was equipped with a counterweight which could be very specifically adjusted for the weight of the robot.

the only good use for them

then losing their jobs

Ryrr

@@csanadhorvath don't be stupid

@@csanadhorvath are you telling me you rather work in a dangerous place than letting a walking metal do it for you?

Same for elected apprentices too!

And strangely bright. This has a Star Trek vibe.

But there is a Spot in it?

@@brll5733 aha!!! Good one!

i wonder how they stay so clean.

@Alabama Boi everything going in and out if industrial warehouses is covered in dust, a lot of the up keep is done by smaller variety of street sweepers but much softer bristles ment for properly washing without damage and regular maintenance by the eplyees

We've sent robots to other planets for decades because it is *really* inconvenient to put people there.

@@Br3ttM As it is inconvenient to defuse a bomb yourself

The best case use for robots generally are less the flashy things and more the this is too boring and tedious for a human things.

@@Br3ttM good point

I mean, why wouldn't one expect it? Ignoring war-time innovation, the driving force behind human innovation has been "being too lazy to do X" for eons now.

yup

They've certainly gotten a lot more handsome in recent releases..!

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i like banana

i steal memes nicely I love banyanya

Perhaps we will one day have robotic pets?

It detects a human lying down, thinks they're injured, and tries to get other humans nearby to help. :D

Accurately detected the person is without a company RFID tag, and call in nearest police station. Face scan provided.

Whining softly in a synthesised manner as it vanishes from view...

apocalypse, do you expect dams and its control system to survive, how naive. Do you know there is life for dams(100 years max, most of them 50 years) and robots(don't even talk about it) also.

@@yoppindia hoover dam is going strong

That is a good point. Even if you provide the human with a checklist and patrol-evidence check-in spots, there will be people who occasionally (or more!) just "pencil-whip" the results. - I saw this when I worked at a convenience store, where every 45 minutes employees were supposed to go to all of the coolers and freezers and note the temperatures. One day I came in for my shift and found the deli case was at 85 degrees F, and had been long enough for everything to go bad. But the checklist showed good temperatures written in for the entire shift before mine.

How many dams across the world have failed do to issues that must have been visible for years, but were never discovered on inspections?

@asdfasdf I mean, mankind *did* invent machines to automate tasks and increase our leisure time. With more robots replacing human workers, something like a Universal Income not only seems viable, it seems like the *right* thing to do :)

@@3nertia why stop at universal basic income? Why would currency be necessary if everyone's needs can be met easily?

@asdfasdf **Dune noises.**

Spot will be used in warfare to kill people. Don't get me started on "oh but its against the terms of service" - the military doesn't care about TOS violations. Look at Vision 60 by Ghost Robotics as to where this tech is heading. I'm a software engineer and I am horrified by where its going to lead

@@itemushmush I’ve seen it. We are only in the beginning

a m o g u s.

@@jgcodes2020 you have summoned my profile pic

Robodog on seeing intruder, "Protocol says I report body lying on the ground, I must make it lie very still on the ground so I can report it." It's just the logical way to handle it.

Self report

Nah, taking care of the intruder is the job of the humans. They have nothing to do of their days, with robots doing all the work, so that's a good distraction and way to exercise.

hehe

LMAO 😂😂 I thought the exact same thing. He's the one that taught such robot dog to oee beer 😂😂😂😂

I prefer entertaining videos to annoying ones. Reeves sucks.

@@samditto I thought it was hella entertaining. Reeves cracks me up.

has that dude been to a dermatologist and the gym yet?

We shouldn't even have washing machines, we should all just have people in our houses that do the work... wait.

And by that I mean that a robot doing your job for you should mean you don't have to work anymore (or at least much less) but because we make people's access to life's necessities dependent on how much work they do and the workers don't own the robots that replace them or the things they produce, we're stuck in an endless cycle of having to find a new place to toil away to make money for an owner just so you don't starve. Brilliant system, truly the best there could possibly be, and surely the one that results in the most freedom /s

@@thesoupin8or673 UBI would sure take the sting out of widespread automation

@@MiseFreisin UBI isn’t a good enough solution. Once people are forced out of their jobs by automation, they will have to depend entirely on government handouts, and that opens the door for a whole host of opportunities for exploitation and manipulation. If you act out of line, or if you’re even born as a minority, you could have your access to human rights cut by a system of UBI. It also robs the working class of its greatest bargaining chip against the ruling class, which is their labour.

There are ways it can fail. The implementation of CV (computer vision) can very easily lead to false positives/negatives. What if the robot thinks that something is working the way it should when its actually wrong? Just one mistake like that could end up costing millions of dollars.

@@luqdude Agreed, it's a bit naive to say this has no shot of failure. That said, I do like the odds. Automated processes are more (and occasionally less to be fair) trustworthy than most people give them credit for, _if_ made well.

4) will perform any task without any question of logic, sanity, or ethics

@@burgeryoufoundbehindthegrill I really do hate when people act so irrationally afraid of new technology, particularly robotics. Please just stop, the future isn't told by your favorite sci-fi movie

Damn.

Damn.

Fallout sidequest: sneak past a powerplant's automated security to let robodog know he's doing a good job.

Same!

A scene out of a new version of On The Beach could easily have that as the scene to replace the window frame tapping on the morse key.

Did the same, in an USAF prime powerplant.

Was the pay good?

so they took a off only on leap years?

I think that things like this are going to replace a lot of people in the coming years too.

Back in the day did you say things like "They may be able to automate some things, but they will NEVER be able to automate engineering inspections"?

Silent Running (1972) captured that mood excellently.

Yes! I was thinking of Wall-E also

Reminds me of visiting school on the weekends.

"Alexa tell Fido to check the kids in the basement"

Sorry dave, I cant do that

Alexa: HA HA HA HA HA

thats better than people working over the holidays

also don't forget that the small robo-doggo is a machine with no feelings or thoughts, is only concerned with doing its daily tasks and is incapable of caring about loneliness

The robot is just an expensive computer with machine learning. Stop anthropomorphizing machines.

Poor robo-dog hopefully Santa will drop by and have a pint or two

good thing it doesnt have emotions

In the future well be praying for the robot dogs to just slowly back away after staring at us.

Robot vs robot war

Then can you elaborate on a better human resources management ?

@@ripmorld9909 The engineers can spend their time examining what Spot has seen & only going out to jobs that need their expertise saving time & vast sums of money.

@@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka correct me if I am wrong, but what you said seems to be exactly what they are doing.

@@ripmorld9909 no, it's saving sending engineers out to these sites to check them just to find there's nothing wrong... They are only sent to sites where the dog has spotted there is something wrong

@@ripmorld9909 😂😂

Look again

mulgerbill is right. Look in his ear at 0:26

I immediately thought of that as well lmao "What are robot dogs actually being used for?" "PISSING BEER INTO CUPS"

We need an update on pissbot9000

Who is the doctor?

@@NystektVaffel Doctor capitalized. That is what that particular Time Lord is called. And it references Doctor Who.

@@NystektVaffel Spoilers! JK, they mean the main protagonist of BBC's Doctor Who, simply known as "The Doctor". A time traveling humanoid alien with 2 hearts and a whole lot of attitude.

in the 51st century our sense of aesthetics will go right back to the 70's futurism aesthetics and all our machines will just be little geometrical things

@@FantasmaNaranja A-ffirma-tive! (Sense of aesthetics includes speech patterns?)

Interesting question! I hope someone answers....

That's what I thought. Just put cameras at strategic locations. Surely even a few hundred cameras are cheaper than one dog.

I wouldn't be surprised if one or two dogs were actually cheaper than a few hundred cameras. ;) Not to mention the hassle of installing and maintaining them. Or the issue of "key points" - what if something breaks somewhere else? With a robot, you can react on the fly.

One example of cost here is the Thermal camera, it costs about 5000$ and if you need 20 of those cameras around your plant the robot is cheaper. Another advantage is the flexibly you have with these robots, to check something the stationary sensor might not see

I wished they talked about this. But there MUST be a logical reason to use spot. Engineers are smart, they wouldn't buy spot if there was a better way.

Well, he’s a bit... _artistic_ in his mad science.

Michael Reeves's idea was also an actual, real-world use. Just not a very good one.

Ittnbdr?

Remind me in the future when robot assistants like these are common household appliances to call mine Emmi

@@macstokow is that the new Boston Dynamics robot? :o

@@Pokemonlin99 maybe.

“haha papa scorch go brrrrrrrrr”

"Cooper, trust me"

@@althafrafianto Can't fail an inspection if there's nothing left to inspect.

@@UzairW cant tell if its a titan fall reference or interstellar

@@Andytlp titanfall reference

Yes, please. I want a personal mech.

Who says they arent working on it? Range would be a problem, spot regularly charges

hhhh robot spider legs brb crippling myself

Countdown until someone gets crushed to death by their robot chair.

They could make some kinda walking chair for outdoors but it wouldnt work in most/many human environments atm because to support that much weight for any length of time it would be too big and heavy- mainly batteries and chunky hydrolics. Also to be stable it would need to be a fair bit wider than a wheelchair i suspect. The end product would just be mostly too big and bulky for stairs or shops or houses etc. It would also have a very limited battery time. At least at our current tech lvl.

It does though. Just look at gasoline prices for the most obvious example of energy prices going up and down depending on costs from the producers.

@@poochyenarulez gas is a product with major competition within a small area, energy production is most of the time a monopoly on a large one. No free market, you rarely get to choose between 2 or 3 energy providers do you. Makes sense bc it would be worse if every provider had to build all the transmission everywhere they wanted to sell, but monopolies ,private or not, drives prices up.

I bet that when their customers are behind in payments, Something at the door....

@@rafael_lana The transmission is a monopoly, but the production is not. In Germany there are 1200 electricity producers overall, and as a private consumer you can choose on average between 160 of them. It does not help much, though, because most of the price consists of taxes - which are of course a monopolistic construct.

@@clray123 So in Germany you have your home with your wires connected to the power grid at a fixed point, but then you choose freely from about 160 options who you are going to pay for the energy you are using? How does that work?

Already happened

Haven't they been doing that for years with drones?

All of their machines I've seen are inhumanly smooth and precise, I love just watching them.

Someone would have to control the drone..... And drones can't charge themselves

Good question, seems like that would be better in every way.

If robodog stops working, it stops where it is. If the drone stops working, it falls out of the air on to something.

@@huzaifakhambhati8767 Could be computer controlled going through the same path in space, with collision avoidance sensors and such. And I'm sure drones can be made to charge themselves

ELECTRO BOOM

Remotely turn on light. Does the image get bright? No: go fix.

Very fun to picture it

That makes things a lot easier for its programers!

Why would this be a worry? Attach an xbox controller to this thing and you have a platform that can reach a threat indoors without issue. No police officers or soldiers get killed. I have no idea why there's worry about the "autonomous" stuff when the solution is to... not have that feature?

Boston dynamics specifically don’t want that. That’s why everything is so colourful and they dance and don’t shoot.

@@KiLLJoYRU-vid If a robot were to confuse the bad guy for a "friend" and a good guy for a "target".

I'd trust a robot more than the usual pig incapable of doing his job

why would you be more worried about that than micro-drones with explosive charges?

Problem with that is that the human eye hand cordination is insane and really hard to mimick on a robot. If the bolt is in a weird direction or the bot is offsync a torque check might be hard. In a conveyor line that might be the norm nowdays

@@bhoubit And as robots get more and more common, machines and workplaces will be designed with having the robots in mind aswell. And the robots will be more designed to handle the machines and workplaces. Take Ocado's automated warehouse for online grocery shopping for example. Specifically designed for robots to do their job efficiently. Also take car manufacturers as another example. Huge robot arms doing their job in huge spaces. With Ladar a robot could see exactly the direction a bolt is screwed in. Is it a job too advanced for it? Well call in a human. The point with robots is to make jobs autonomous and cost efficient. That way you can use the expensive humans only for jobs that require them.

Not going to be dramatic here, but they'll also be used in combat and will have weapons attached. Just look at the Vision 60 'dogbot'

@@itemushmush who cares

Well, it's not clear that most robots can "survive" where human fear to go.

the real value is in military applications: putting a gun on the picatinny rails is just the next step. hope you like autonomous vehicles killing humans!

What makes you think you'll be the one who owns the repairbot? As soon as you teach it to do your job, you're fired!

@@kilbert666 somebody still needs to go out and fix something if it is broken and companies still need somebody to be legally responsible in case something goes wrong.

@@Spazturtle True. The robot is a way to make the job easier, safer, and more precise, but there will always need to be a human to either work with the robot, fix the robot, control and charge the robot (for the ones that aren't autonomous), and/or look at the data the robot is sending (either directly or after being processed by a computer).

placing and soldering components on PCBs can be done with something far simpler (and probably cheaper and better suited) than a robot dog.

Underwater welding....

Why do you think you are entitled to those savings? It is their property, you have 0 claim to it whatsoever.

looks cool

Or a camera on a rail like in Portal 2.

The Thermal Camera on this robot is about 5000$ and you can do the math, at what point the robot is cheaper than multiple stationary cameras

Was wondering the same thing. I assume there are enough things to inspect that spot can do it cheaper than putting up all those stationary cameras.

A few hundred cameras + the data infrastructure to support them will cost more than a camera that can move.