{"id":71914,"date":"2017-08-15T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/falling-robots-are-funny-but-thats-how-theyll-learn-to-take-your-job"},"modified":"2017-08-15T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:22:30","slug":"falling-robots-are-funny-but-thats-how-theyll-learn-to-take-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/falling-robots-are-funny-but-thats-how-theyll-learn-to-take-your-job","title":{"rendered":"Falling Robots Are Funny, but That\u2019s How They\u2019ll Learn to Take Your Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New clip of ATLAS, having some problems but interesting to see.<\/p>\n

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If at first you don\u2019t succeed, try again\u2014and, if you\u2019re a robot, again and again and again and again and again and again. Because it\u2019s worth remembering that unlike many humans, automatons will keep at a task until they do achieve success.<\/p>\n

This GIF of Boston Dynamics\u2019s Atlas robot<\/a> taking a tumble, sliced from a TED talk published Monday<\/a>, has gone viral. Presumably, that\u2019s because when humans aren\u2019t fretting about how they\u2019ll steal our jobs<\/a>, we sure do seem to enjoy laughing at robots falling over<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But robots are tenacious: failures don\u2019t demoralize them the way they do humans. So you can bet that Atlas carried on trying to nail the task of moving a box for hours, and then shared its learnings with all its buddies<\/a> so that none of them make the same mistake in the future. (And at any rate, the robot that steals your job is unlikely to be a humanoid<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

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New clip of ATLAS, having some problems but interesting to see. If at first you don\u2019t succeed, try again\u2014and, if you\u2019re a robot, again and again and again and again and again and again. Because it\u2019s worth remembering that unlike many humans, automatons will keep at a task until they do achieve success. This GIF [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}