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The pace of advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics is constantly increasing, regardless of whether or not that is a good thing. One of the leaders in this development, Clone Robotics, recently showed off just how creepy and terrifying our future is going to look with a new video of their humanlike Protoclone android robot.
Humanoid robots doing things like side flips and kip-ups is one thing. That’s bad enough. But Clone Robotics’ Protoclone hanging from the ceiling by some wires, spasming and twitching while clenching its fists, shrugging its shoulders, and nodding its head is literally the stuff of nightmares.
“Meet Clone’s first musculoskeletal android: Protoclone, the most anatomically accurate robot in the world. Based on a natural human skeleton, Protoclone is actuated with over 1,000 Myofibers, Clone’s proprietary artificial muscle technology,” the company wrote in the caption to their creepy new video.
That is way more terrifying than anything that happened in Westworld.
Clone Robotics says their Protoclone is so humanlike that it has the same 206 bones that humans have, all made from “cheap and durable polymers.” The company also says their “faceless, anatomically accurate” robot is a “synthetic human with over 200 degrees of freedom, over 1,000 Myofibers, and over 200 sensors.”
Those 200 sensors are only used to let the robot track where its limbs are, and it will not be able to feel touch or pain. Clone Robotics also claims that at some point in the future, their Protoclone will be almost indistinguishable from actual human beings. Which is great since artificial intelligence models have already achieved the ability to be indistinguishable from humans, both mentally as well as with their voices.
Throw in some lab-grown muscle tissue, the ability to self-replicate, and a penchant for doing anything it can to achieve its goals, all while AI continues to get smarter and humans get dumber, and it’s only a matter of time before these robots take over.
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