{"id":5473,"date":"2025-09-25T16:26:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/new-ai-control-robot-chainsaw-legs-off\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:26:39","slug":"new-ai-control-robot-chainsaw-legs-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/new-ai-control-robot-chainsaw-legs-off\/","title":{"rendered":"New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robots are being put through all kinds of abuse these days.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re being kicked<\/a>, punched<\/a>, shoved<\/a>, and even dragged by a chain around their neck<\/a> \u2014 all in an apparent effort to teach them how to adapt to the oh-so-cruel physical world around them.<\/p>\n

In the latest instance of a robot being brutalized, a video making its rounds on social media<\/a> shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe built a robot brain that nothing can stop,\u201d the company wrote in an accompanying tweet<\/a>. \u201cShattered limbs? Jammed motors? If the bot can move, the Brain will move it \u2014 even if it\u2019s an entirely new robot body.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video is as disconcerting as it is impressive, demonstrating the effectiveness of an AI that can seemingly be dropped into pretty much any robot body \u2014 even a severely mutilated one \u2014 and still adapt and move.<\/p>\n

Even with all four of its limbs lopped off, the robodog starts to hobble around almost immediately \u2014 albeit in a far less dignified way.<\/p>\n

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To construct what it\u2019s calling an \u201comni-bodied robot brain,\u201d Skild trained an AI to \u201ccontrol not just one robot, but a whole multiverse of robots with different bodies,\u201d according to a recent blog post<\/a>. \u201cIt cannot memorize the solution for one body, it must find a strategy that works across all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe created a universe with 100,000 different robots and trained our AI to control them all,\u201d the company explained, claiming \u201cwe were often surprised with its ability to adapt to scenarios that were very different from what it saw at training time.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a series of experiments, the company showed off its new robot brain\u2019s ability to respond to a variety of different scenarios, such as the loss of limbs<\/a> and broken legs<\/a>, to jammed wheels<\/a> or being forced to walk on stilts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Skild says that its \u201cresults show early sparks of intelligence in the world of atoms,\u201d hinting at a future where robots can adapt to virtually any environment or body, allowing them to \u201cone day reliably assist humans in factories, hospitals, homes, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, whether that justifies all of the abuse we\u2019ve put those poor robots through over the years is debatable. We certainly wouldn\u2019t want to be at their mercy if they were ever to surpass our own intelligence.<\/p>\n

To some, that future is far closer than we might think.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeep learning is coming for robotics,\u201d Palisade Research director Jeffrey Ladish tweeted<\/a> in response to Skild\u2019s demo. \u201cIt\u2019s plausible to me that AI will exceed human performance at strategic cognitive tasks around the same time robotics will exceed human-body performance at most tasks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if not, superhuman AI will quickly allow robots to leapfrog humans,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

More on robot abuse:<\/strong> Disturbing Video Shows Man Jerking Robot Around by Chain Around Its Neck<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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