Futurism on Instagram: "This video of a robotics engineer yanking a humanoid robot around by a chain is making the rounds on the internet, prompting fears that he may be accelerating the inevitable robot uprising. “This guy is the first one to die in the robot uprising,” one Reddit user joked. But disturbing optics aside, it’s an impressive demo that shows how far the balance and resilience of humanoid robots — especially this Unitree G1 — have come in recent years. Read more about the bot at th

Futurism on Instagram: "Bystander video shows one of Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing vehicles driving over the carefully groomed lawn of a golf course, leading the internet to interpret it as a particularly egregious instance of a driverless taxi getting confused. But the company said there’s a a perfectly reasonable explanation: It was being driven by a human driver — and not just being supervised as it navigated on its own — as part of a series of concerts called the Sunset Sessions, which tak

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