This hilarious robot collapse reminds me that robot development is nowhere near where it needs to be, but a huge breakthrough from DeepMind could change all that

I watched two robot videos at the opposite ends of the Cantril Scale. You know, the ladder that measures human happiness in steps but that I am now applying to humanoid accomplishment?

At the bottom step and living its worst possible artificial life, we have the Qualcomm robot that, after delivering the new Dragonwing IQ10 robotics reference platform on a tray to a presenter, spectacularly collapsed lifelessly at the guy's feet. The robot raised one hand as if in defeat, and seconds later, handlers rushed out to throw a sheet over its lifeless mechanical body.

At the top of the ladder and full of artificial life satisfaction, we have the Apollo Robot from Apptronik. It's running DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2, a new artificial intelligence layer that lets it autonomously accomplish a wide variety of human-like tasks, which it demonstrates in a new DeepMind video.

Watching the two...

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