This new season of Robot Wars / Battle Bots is starting strong
There should be an open communication standard that all robots use to communicate with each other.
And it will only be used for good and nothing nefarious.
Aside from the obvious I, Robot movie allusion, this idea doesn’t really work in the real world because robots have to be able to detect the presence and anticipate the actions of non-robots anyway. Unless you’re willing to ban all the actual people from the street, which is unreasonable, robot-to-robot communication doesn’t actually help you.
How about if we had sixteen different proprietary such protocols instead?
We’d need a seventeenth unifying protocol
There should be an open communication standard that all robots use to communicate with each other.
Yes!
And it will only be used for good and nothing nefarious.
Oh no
I hate seeing this kind of bot on bot crime
The future is now!
video of it on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hazFkED40KI if you don’t want to go to reddit through the linked page
Don’t really want to go to YouTube either, but thank you.
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Jesus y’all are a bunch of lock-stepping little fascists.
You must be exhausted.
Yeah everyone knows the best crash videos are on liveleak
Hey, it actually stopped without plowing on very far at all. That’s better than what I expected to happen.
I see nobody talking about this, but aren’t the Waymo(s) trained on data which most likely did not include these robots yet?
It seems like this is just something that’ll probably happen a lot whenever something new is introduced on the roads.
Expect reCaptcha to ask you to identify food delivery robots soon.
I don’t know about the equipment of Waymo cars, but I would be surprised if they didn’t have LIDARs or some other form of distance based environment detection.
And that should be sufficient to implement basic obstacle detection. You don’t need to use machine learning if you can use sensors telling you that “something is too close”.
but aren’t the Waymo(s) trained on data which most likely did not include these robots yet?
You can say that about nearly 100% of humans as well.
So I’m finding it hard to find a release date for humans, but I’m fairly sure they predated the invention of self-driving cars.
For example I seem to remember being alive in the 1990s
Well, they should try to avoid any object in the road to be honest. Imagine a new toy comes out that a child is on. Sorry we killed that child l, we didn’t train it on that new toy.
Its just an unacceptable answer to be honest.
That is also very true.
It’s not a Tesla so I’m sure they are investigating the cause.
We can discuss now who had the right of way.
But can we?
Do robots suddenly have rights?
Where were you during the robot wars of 2025?
Begun, the robot wars have.
You call that a smash? Stop sensationalising, come now.
A car gently tapped a thing during a turn and came to a stop.
That was personal, there’s definitely some beef between them.
We’ll win the robot wars by pitting them against each other.
The laws of robotics:
- A robot shall never harm a human, or through inaction allow a human to come to harm.
- Fuck other robots though. Fuck them right up.
First glance I thought that was One Must Fall: 2097, but turns out below it doesn’t even get close to that epic level.
To be fair, given its legacy now as one of the worst one-on-one fighting games in the history of the universe, Rise of the Robots probably wishes it was One Must Fall.
Oh yeah, that reminds me I wanted to replay that game.
Nah you’re good
Every robot should have some kind of electronic blinker to let others know they’re robots. That way, we can avoid a bunch of bumps and crashes.
Nice try, skynet…
The shadow wars
