With multiple companies developing humanoid robots, it’s a matter of time before one of them goes haywire and hurts someone. It hasn’t happened yet, but two videos making the rounds show how it will likely start. In the first video, one of Unitree’s H1 ‘bots “unexpectedly lunged toward a spectator who had extended their hand for a handshake:”
In the second, also an H1 ‘bot, a “coding error” causes it to lose its sh*t and start flailing dangerously:
I was once a fan of having big, red “off” buttons located in a prominent location on the robots’ bodies. But watching these things flail, it’s obvious you’d never be able to reach it without getting whacked. Remote kill switches or perhaps “safety words” are needed.
