Reporters from all around the world are in Pomona to cover the event, about a half hour east of downtown Los Angeles in the shadow of the San Gabriel mountains. So they encouraged him to think about becoming a program manager for DARPA one day so that he could execute this vision. Running Man dropped the drill. They’re talking with staff at DARPA about something. We’re now seeing robotic technology in places where we never thought they’d appear. Ah, quit complaining about the smell of horse shit. Come on HRP2. And with each passing day, we inch closer and closer to driverless cars becoming a mainstream reality on America’s roads. Well, sort of. Is technology for its own sake some kind of endgame? In our lifetime, we’ve also seen a few robots get sent to other planetary bodies in our solar system. 11:06am: Wait, what was the surprise task? As yet another DARPA sign says, “There is no final frontier.” But when the military starts building humanoid robot soldiers, even techno-optimists may start wishing that the end was in sight. In the 90s, we’ve also seen the popularity of robotics enter the home realm. He has six points. None of that changes the fact that these robots exist, and are waiting to do some damage. Even if it doesn't destroy them completely, it'll be a hell of a lot easier to kill a robot with no arms and legs than it would be to frag one that can still rip you in half. The answer to that is a resounding yes, as developments in the field of robotics, science, technology, and engineering evolve every single day all over the world. 10:59am: Cheering as it looks like he’s doing well on that 1/2 inch thick drywall. Darpa was basically trying to create a real-life Skynet, and one component of the program was a driverless car developed by Martin Marietta, now part of Lockheed Martin. The communications disruptions are an extension of that simulation because wireless and emergency networks would be overloaded or down in a real disaster. But the humans in this section of the stands can’t escape from it. ASIMO is continuously being improved to increase functionality and capability. Unsurprisingly, the closing ceremonies included a comedic video of robots falling down. But DARPA was doing a lot of other shit in the late 1960s. I wonder what fail gifs of other groundbreaking technologies in history would look like. They're all doomed, along with everyone else, because... Not to sound overly Marxist here, but at this point, robots control the means of production. It has to exit the vehicle, and that’s really no easy task. The military wanted to be able to find and destroy any potential missiles being launched from the Soviet Union. The fact that robots today can perform highly technical neurosurgeries is a big deal. I spend the morning walking between the main competition area and the expo grounds, investigating the booths from DARPA, different universities, the Navy, 3D printer companies, and even a bible college that’s promoting its program on the ethics of emerging technologies. The robot Sophia was featured at the Future Investment Summit in Riyadh and was granted citizenship by the Saudi Arabian government. Clearly you have nothing to do with horses.