Remember When We First Saw Humanoid Robots? (Discussion)

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I was browsing the net a couple of days ago and stumbled across a video of this incredible robot. I think it was called something like the RX-17 or similar—I’m not sure. But it could remember people’s faces and objects, and it could be programmed to do pretty much anything: dance, play sports, fetch your newspaper, and even be controlled via the internet. That got me thinking—what if someone hacked this thing and made it go all skitzo, hurting people or worse? Anyway, it was awesome. I think it was priced around $30,000 in Japan back then.

Looking back now, that was just the beginning. Today we have robots like Boston Dynamics’ Atlas doing parkour, and humanoids like Tesla Optimus and Figure AI that are way more advanced. The security concerns are even bigger now, with AI-powered hacking and remote exploits. It’s crazy how far we’ve come!

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:open_book: Topic Overview (Wikipedia):

A humanoid robot is a robot resembling the human body in shape. The design may be aimed at functional purposes, such as interacting with human tools and environments and working alongside humans, for experimental purposes, such as the study of bipedal locomotion, or for other purposes.
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Yeah, I remember seeing something like that on Discovery Channel. It was a robot that could make coffee and fetch things.

There was also an article about driverless robot cars crossing the desert—pretty cool stuff. But back then, the idea of a robot being hacked seemed like sci-fi.

Now we have autonomous cars and delivery bots everywhere, and security is a huge deal. It’s wild to think that those early robots were the foundation for all this.