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Nah, the routine was not supposed to veer in that direction. Everyone lauding this as a win do not understand how simple these robots are.
This was supposed to be nothing but a vapid PR event that sold an image that is still not possible by consumer-grade robotics.
That's a simplistic and reductive look at what's happening here. The speed with which they're improving is insane. How long before they can build themselves? The speed of improvement would assume only a few years. You're mocking it for failing a dance done by one of the best dancers in human history. It's like saying that AI can't compete with usain Bolt, Tom Hanks, Nolan Ryan, Tom Brady, George Patton, Leonardo devinci, etc. yeah it can't beat the best of the best yet, but it's not that far off.
That dancing robot is better than most people, even taking the fail. Robots beat runners on a recent marathon.
The Jackson Fives' father was ruthless on the kids practicing from early childhood.
It's being mocked for its inability to deal with stairs.
Daleks have been able to do that since the late 1980s.
Pretty sure since the 60's
Iirc, it's Remembrance of the Daleks (1988) where we see one hover up some stairs for the first time.
Centuries.
We have had robots in factories since the 70's putting one tiny part each on a large assembly. Getting a humanoid robot to build itself is a gargantuan task. Tasking one of these to do any kind of intricate assembly right now would see it freak out and smash everything in the room.
Improving is insane for what you have seen.
Not for what is possible or what has been done already.