Google company Boston Dynamics has spawned what could ultimately be the untimely demise of humankind. This impressive humanoid robot, named Atlas, is no doubt a kickass achievement; but it’s also vaguely terrifying the whole time. I mean dude, look at that robot go. It’s eery how much it’s movements at certain points resemble that of a human. You’ve gotta’ wonder were these robots mass produced on a huge scale, how that’d impact the manual labor employment prospects. Fast forward to around 1:30 and watch someone from the team fucking duel Atlas, in the name of displaying the robot’s impressive reaction skills/adaptability. It’s insanity.
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Like why would any manager bausman throw down money to train and hire a pack of new, eager willing recruits if he could just order up a shitton of robots literally programmed for maximum efficiency? He wouldn’t. Granted, the price for one of these Atlas robots (or is every robot bestowed a unique name?..) is for sure going to be sky high, and in all honesty a luxury likely reserved for the uber wealthy.