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elijah-inmymind · 15 days

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OH MY GOD SHUT UP U GUYS I AM THINKING ABOUT DVDS!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD. I LOVE DVDS. DISCS. HOLY SHIT U GUYS. HHHHHHHHHH.

GONNA BUY A PORTABLE DVD PLAYER AND THEN I’M GONNA WATCH BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN!!!!!!!!! I ALREADY HAVE BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN ON DVD BUT I HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET DUE TO NO DVD PLAYER.

AND THEN I’M GONNA FIND MY ROBOTS DVD AND I!!!! AM GOING!!!!!! TO WATCH!!!! ROBOTS!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S THE BEST MOVIE POSSIBLY EVER AND I REFUSE TO WATCH IT ONLINE. IT LIVES ON A DVD!!!

I CAN’T FIND MY ROBOTS DVD RN BUT OH BOY WHEN I DO!!!!! I WON’T BE ABLE TO WATCH IT BC I DON’T HAVE A DVD PLAYER YET. BUT ROBOTS!!!!! EXCITED FOR ROBOTS.

#and then i’m gonna watch my Addams Family dvd from my mum #and iRobot #and Chappie #and i’ll go on a hunt to find The Matrix so i can watch it all the time on my PORTABLE DVD PLAYER #“but u can just watch it on the internet”#okay???????????#where’s the fucking joy in that?????????????????#no whimsy?? no nostalgia??#no obsession with the technology of ur childhood that u never got to fully understand before it fell out of use??#that lived such a short life in the grand scheme of the endless development of technology????#this beautiful little blip in the history of technology and i get to use it to watch the best movie of all time. Robots (2002).#had to put this on pause for a sec to document my cat stepson giving me the most zooted look #mouth hangin open and everything #he’s a fucking weird cat #orange obviously #incredibly unhinged at all times #very very cute and sweet just the most good tempered cat you’ll ever meet #so so so fucking stupid #SO stupid #afraid of when u adjust ur legs when sitting on the couch to get more comfy #but not afraid of running into literally any and every solid surface he can #he once ran full tilt at my feet seemingly intending to phase right through them #no brace for impact no attack posture no hesitation at all it was like i wasn’t even there #and he was utterly shocked when i #a big lumbering giant #whacked him with my shin right in his skull so hard. like a soccer ball. just THUNK.#that’s a lie he was actually almost entirely unphased aside from looking at me like it was my fault #jesus christ #i’m gonna be so real with u man i forgot what i was doing #fuck me. no more yapping for tonight.

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odinsblog · 1 year

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IN THE FALL OF 2020, GIG WORKERS IN VENEZUELA POSTED A SERIES OF images to online forums where they gathered to talk shop. The photos were mundane, if sometimes intimate, household scenes captured from low angles—including some you really wouldn’t want shared on the Internet.

In one particularly revealing shot, a young woman in a lavender T-shirt sits on the toilet, her shorts pulled down to mid-thigh.

The images were not taken by a person, but by development versions of iRobot’s Roomba J7 series robot vacuum. They were then sent to Scale AI, a startup that contracts workers around the world to label audio, photo, and video data used to train artificial intelligence.

They were the sorts of scenes that internet-connected devices regularly capture and send back to the cloud—though usually with stricter storage and access controls. Yet earlier this year, MIT Technology Review obtained 15 screenshots of these private photos, which had been posted to closed social media groups.

The photos vary in type and in sensitivity. The most intimate image we saw was the series of video stills featuring the young woman on the toilet, her face blocked in the lead image but unobscured in the grainy scroll of shots below. In another image, a boy who appears to be eight or nine years old, and whose face is clearly visible, is sprawled on his stomach across a hallway floor. A triangular flop of hair spills across his forehead as he stares, with apparent amusement, at the object recording him from just below eye level.

iRobot—the world’s largest vendor of robotic vacuums, which Amazon recently acquired for $1.7 billion in a pending deal—confirmed that these images were captured by its Roombas in 2020.

Ultimately, though, this set of images represents something bigger than any one individual company’s actions. They speak to the widespread, and growing, practice of sharing potentially sensitive data to train algorithms, as well as the surprising, globe-spanning journey that a single image can take—in this case, from homes in North America, Europe, and Asia to the servers of Massachusetts-based iRobot, from there to San Francisco–based Scale AI, and finally to Scale’s contracted data workers around the world (including, in this instance, Venezuelan gig workers who posted the images to private groups on Facebook, Discord, and elsewhere).

Together, the images reveal a whole data supply chain—and new points where personal information could leak out—that few consumers are even aware of.

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gougerre · 2 months

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#irobot

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stevebattle · 6 months

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TinyVille Dollhouse (2001) by iRobot, Bedford, MA. TinyVille is an interactive dollhouse, inhabited by a virtual family with their own individual personalities (the perfect home for your miniature replica Roomba). The family is represented by sound and lights moving within the house, and they can talk and play games with you. The doors and windows have touch sensors, and the audio comes from specific rooms. It even has a 'tilt' sensor to detect if the house is tipped or shaken. The more you interact with the house, the more you learn about its occupants. The family are initially frightened of you, as to them you manifest as an invisible ghostly presence, but they will eventually come to trust you.

#cybernetics #iRobot #2001 #toy

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macleod · 2 years

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The world's most well-known and successful consumer robotics company is being acquired by Amazon. I say this with great trepidation as founding members of the company follow me, but this is an absolutely bad idea.

#irobot #mine #robotics #news #amazon

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miasmultifandomdump · 6 months

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I love me a duo where one hates artificial intelligence but then changes their mind due to the innocence and pure-hearted ways of a new AI friend.

#detroit: connor #hank anderson #connor and hank #detroit: become human #robot sonny #del spooner #spooner and sonny #irobot #i robot #all queued up with nowhere to go

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raurquiz · 2 months

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#happybirthday @alantudyk #alantudyk #actor #k2so #rogueone #starwars #Transformers #DarkoftheMoon #EarthSpark #Encanto #Disenchanted #StrangeWorld #firefly #irobot #ResidentAlien #DoomPatrol #RayaandtheLastDragon #BigHero6 #WreckItRalph #AKnightsTale #Moana #Zootopia #Oddball

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bittersweetblasphemy · 3 months

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idk what to tell you man when i was younger i was excited for AI because i wanted to watch robots fuck and instead we got a shitty algorithm that manages to also pollute the environment while stealing my writing about robots who fuck

#megatron save me. megatron. save me megatron.#actually sonny from irobot was the first robot i wanted to fuck but this is way funnier #id smash some fat gladiator puss just saying

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ryukisgod · 1 year

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#three laws of robotics #M3gan #isaac asimov #scifi #meme #robots #irobot #science fiction #memes #movie #film

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gender-luster · 3 months

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every time alan tudyk plays a robot, know he's gonna deliver a performance that'll blow my dick clean off

#please please please #let alan tudyk play more robots #alan tudyk #k2so #sonny #irobot sonny #optimus prime

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paperuniverse · 2 months

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What do you mean they’re voiced by the same guy??

#paperuniverse post #alan tudyk #irobot movie #harley quinn tv show

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bloodbathcat · 4 months

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stevebattle · 7 months

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ChemBot "Jamming Skin Polymorph" (2009) by iRobot, Bedford, MA. The shape-shifting ChemBot moves around using “jamming skin enabled locomotion.” Its silicone skin includes twenty bladders, arranged in a regular icosahedron, filled with air and loosely-packed particles. When the air is sucked out, the decrease in pressure constricts the skin, and the remaining particles solidify in place. Under the ChemBot's skin is an incompressible fluid sac and an actuator to vary its volume. A combination of unjamming selected bladders and inflating the interior sac causes its skin to bulge outwards, making it roll around.

"If covert access to denied or hostile space is required during military operations, the effectiveness of unmanned platforms such as mechanical robots can be limited if the only available points of entry are small openings. The goal of the Chemical Robots (ChemBots) program is to create a new class of soft, flexible, meso-scale mobile objects that can identify and maneuver through openings smaller than their dimensions and perform tasks once entry is gained." – Chemical Robots (ChemBots), Dr. Gill Pratt, DARPA, Defence Sciences Office.

#cybernetics #robot #soft robotics #iRobot #2009

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lovecatnip · 5 months

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I, Robot

2004

#irobot #will smith #bridget moynahan #alan tudyk #shia labeouf #james cromwell

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roboticsappreciationsociety · 3 months

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By Evan Ackerman 29 Jan 2024

Citing “no path to regulatory approval in the European Union,” Amazon and iRobot have announced the termination of an acquisition deal first announced in August of 2022 that would have made iRobot a part of Amazon and valued the robotics company at US $1.4 billion.

The European Commission released a statement today that explained some of its concerns, which to be fair, seem like reasonable things to be concerned about:

Our in-depth investigation preliminarily showed that the acquisition of iRobot would have enabled Amazon to foreclose iRobot’s rivals by restricting or degrading access to the Amazon Stores.… We also preliminarily found that Amazon would have had the incentive to foreclose iRobot’s rivals because it would have been economically profitable to do so. All such foreclosure strategies could have restricted competition in the market for robot vacuum cleaners, leading to higher prices, lower quality, and less innovation for consumers.

#robot #robotics #irobot #amazon #EU

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pearcepeafowl · 4 months

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meme, and WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK.

happy new year btw

its giving

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