“Robot” Gunslinger by Bosstown Dynamics Fools Many

By Dean Weingarten

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- A new Bosstown Dynamics video created by Corridor has gone viral. The video has over two million views so far. Many are fooled by the well-done video, assuming that the images are real. It is not hard to understand. There are videos of actual Russian robots shooting guns, videos of dog-like American military experimental robots, and others.

We are on in the process of breakthrough technologies. It is a continuing revolution that started about 500 years ago. We can call this advance the computer revolution, the digital revolution, the information age, or the beginning of the singularity.

The Bosstown Dynamics video is not real. It does not have images of a real robot gunslinger. It is made with clever CGI technology, where the motions of a human actor are used to create an animated video. It is very well done, and can fool nearly anyone. A source called me and asked if I had seen the video. It was described as “scary”. It is scary, perhaps not so much for the Terminator type robot, but for the ability of modern digital technology to create false images that are not easily …Read the Rest

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