Taking Megan's point, Cueball sarcastically suggests that humans don't tend to overreact violently to perceived threats, to which Megan replies, equally sarcastically, that she must be thinking of another species. Megan, however, offers an alternative view: that in fact, due to human nature, it is the robots that are in mortal peril from this technological development, not humans, since humans tend to respond aggressively to potential threats. This latest advance seems to specifically undercut that assurance.Īfter Cueball sees this video, he reiterates the same line by saying that we're definitely going to die. Randall has previously made the point that a robot uprising would promptly fail because most robots couldn't successfully open doors (or even successfully negotiate thresholds, in some cases). It is especially appropriate here, since the ability to open doors is extremely useful when dealing with humans. This is a common jest or anxiety expressed when robots manage to master a task that previously had given them difficulty. Many social media comments joked that humanity is doomed, as the robots we are developing will soon become capable enough to rise up and overthrow us. The video was extremely popular, receiving over four million views in the first day. It holds the door open for the first robot, then follows it through the doorway. This robot sizes up the door, then uses its arm to grasp the handle and open the door.

The video shows a quadruped robot with a roughly canine form approach a door, then stop and 'look' to the side where a second robot appears, which has an articulated arm attachment on top.

This comic refers to a YouTube video posted one day earlier by robotics company Boston Dynamics.

Title text: Don't be nervous about the robots, be nervous about the people with the resources to build them.

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