Video: Robots crash into dummies, identify human weaknesses

The IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation is kicking off today in Kobe Japan. In other words, the world’s leading researchers in the field of robotics are gathered in a single location to plot our doom. Don’t believe us? Just check out the video after the break. It’s a research piece from the Germany Aerospace Center depicting experiments of robots crashing into human test dummies. They claim that the research explores human-robot accidents so that robots can be made safer. We’re not so sure though, judging by the devious laughter heard after the first gruesome impact.

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