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Re:How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance by amelius on Friday January 08, 2021 @04:20AM (#25683002)
> There's nothing scary about these robots

How would you feel if the dance contained some choreographed "mow the people down" moves?

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Re:How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance by paganel on Friday January 08, 2021 @05:47AM (#25683405)
There isn't even a need for that, take the "classic" goose dance, for example, it can be particularly funny, like in this video [1], or out-right scary, like in this footage [2].

It all depends on the context, I can't see John Cleese turning into a genocidal dictator anytime soon, while we all know what the people in the second video did only a few years after those images were filmed. For what it's worth I see the robot in this story closer to the second video than to Cleese's comedic genius.

[1] https://youtu.be/yfl6Lu3xQW0?t=82

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSvS4LY26Yg

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