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James Vincent

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
512 total appearances

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One billion humanoid robots

So I gave it a shove and it sort of wobbled and they were like, no, you can do it harder than that.

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One billion humanoid robots

And I gave it as hard as I could and it staggered backwards and it did this amazing, I mean, like completely normal.

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One billion humanoid robots

Obviously, whenever you've pushed a human, you know what it's like.

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One billion humanoid robots

They stagger backwards, they throw their arms up in the air and they regain their equilibrium.

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One billion humanoid robots

And it was just such an uncanny moment to see a robot mimic so perfectly to my eyes, the movements of a human.

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One billion humanoid robots

And I remember doing this and having it sort of stagger backwards and then trot back up to me, look me right in the face and I was like, oh gosh, you know, these things are real.

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One billion humanoid robots

And what are they meant to do, James?

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One billion humanoid robots

What, humanoid robots?

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One billion humanoid robots

I mean, if you believe the pitch decks and the hype men, they're meant to do everything.

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One billion humanoid robots

They're meant to do anything that an able-bodied human can do.

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One billion humanoid robots

They're meant to slot right into the workplace.

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One billion humanoid robots

They're meant to sort packages.

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One billion humanoid robots

They're meant to bolt on car doors, anything and everything.

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One billion humanoid robots

This is the pitch.

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One billion humanoid robots

This is why they are built like humans, because they want these creatures, sorry, these machines...

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One billion humanoid robots

Creatures!

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One billion humanoid robots

I know, I know.

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One billion humanoid robots

You know what I mean.

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One billion humanoid robots

You've been robot-pilled.

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One billion humanoid robots

I've been robot-pilled, yes.