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Lance Ulanoff

I just watched a robot kick a child and I'm over it — let's keep robots away from people until these bots are 100% safe

Robot.

Robot roundhouse kicks child — I wish I were making that up, but we have the video evidence, and while I know that AI could generate a similar film, this one appears to be quite, and unfortunately, real.

Most of today's humanoid robotics companies are enthusiastically pitching an immediate future where robots and humans live side-by-side. It's an exciting, sci-fi-fulfilling possibility; it's also, based on this recent video evidence, potentially very, very dangerous.

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