Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said that in the future, humans will be the pets of robots. Which, given the following, is still an optimistic scenario. And when we imagine the apocalypse, it doesn't usually start with an innocent game of ping pong, but the following footage of an Omron robot playing ping pong with humans and working to easily subdue not only its ping pong opponent but all of humanity suggests that we should also consider such a scenario.
Japanese company Omron (the name itself is ominous) is with his robot who he plays ping pong with people, wanted to demonstrate how automated/automatic technology helps a person. But rather than that, it seems to herald the end of human dominance and the beginning of the machine age, as we have already seen in many dystopian films. He himself is leading us to an ominous scenario promotional video, which shows a heap most of the time of smiling people hitting a ping pong ball. But only later do we realize that he is returning it to them, or standing opposite "insecticide" robot, who seems like ping pong is the last thing he'd be doing if it were his way.
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Of course, these kinds of robots are nothing new, but Omron's is the most menacing we have seen so far. The innovation received an award at the largest Asian fair for new achievements in information technology and electronics CEATEC, but what she really accomplished was to remind us that once the end of innocent fun and games with robots, things are going to get very uncomfortable for us.
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