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The internet absolutely roasted this robot for being totally awful at basketball and it was the best

Get this robot out of here.

It has always felt like it’d only be a matter of time before the robots took over and went all I, Robot on us. And, honestly, it’s never felt like there was much we could do about it.

I mean, they can parkour so we can’t really escape them. They can do gymnastics and run up flights of stairs.  They’re big and fast and even have creepy dogs that can open doors. They can even bust dance moves now, which, at that point, they’re just gloating.

But we’ve finally found the one thing they stink at. And that is basketball. The robots cannot play basketball.

FIBA unveiled their new dribbling robot and, boy, I am stealing the ball from this thing 12 times out of 10. It has no moves. No bag. Bob Cousy has a better crossover because this robot doesn’t have a crossover at all.

And don’t think we didn’t see that trash bounce pass, either. We saw it. It’s getting stolen. We’re on the fastbreak throwing lobs now. How does this thing dribble slower than the shooting robot shoots?

Am I taking a charge from this thing? No. It looks like it wears a size 25. And it’s just rolling down the court. I might actually die if it runs me over, so that’s dangerous. But it dribbles so slow anybody should be able to get in there and take the ball. Hit the gym, robot.

The internet completely roasted this joint for having no game.

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The Boston Dynamics robots can parkour now and there is truly no escape

The Boston Dynamics robots just keep getting better. It’s a nightmare.

Can someone please stop Boston Dynamics? It’s pretty obvious they’re building robot death machines over there. Someone needs to stop this.

They’ve got robot dogs opening doors so we can’t hide in closets from them during their hostile takeover. They can jog, too, so we’re not out running them. And don’t even think about hiding up the stairs.

They even taught them how to dance so that when they’ve completed their takeover, they can dance on our graves.

And now, even if we try to get some height and hide, they don’t even need steps. They can just parkour their way up to us and get us out the paint.

Yup. That’s right. They taught the robots how to parkour.

These things are basically ninja death machines at this point, yo. Boston Dynamics must be stopped.

We have so much proof that this isn’t a great idea. The Terminator movies. iRobot. Transformers. And yet here we are, watching them develop these things right before our eyes.

Where is John Connor when you need him?

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Fans couldn’t stop watching the basketball-playing robot from halftime of USA-France game

Team USA could have used it.

Team USA men’s basketball suffered its first Olympic loss since 2004 on Sunday, falling, 83-76 to France. As if that wasn’t a bad enough start to the Olympic campaign, the team got outclassed by a robot at halftime.

When both teams were in the locker rooms at half, a robot wearing a basketball uniform took the floor at Saitama Super Arena.

And while it was a bit odd to have halftime entertainment for an event without fans, it was worth it to see this robot put on a basketball-shooting display. The robot hit a three before going to midcourt and draining a shot from there.

CBS’s NCAA tournament broadcast has breakdancing robots and they’re hilariously bad yet so adorable

Dancing robots doing the robot.

We’ve seen pregame shows do a bunch of different things to keep us entertained ahead of games. They’ve given us comedy bits, stats, different minigames the broadcasters play.

But we have absolutely never seen break dancing robots. Until today, that is.

CBS’s NCAA tournament pregame show was previewing the schedule for the day. Next thing you know, these augmented reality break dancing ROBOTS are just getting busy.

LOOK. AT. THESE. MOVES. This has to be the corniest cut ever. It’s so bad it’s good. You have no choice but to love this. They’re sort of adorable, in a ridiculously corny dancing robot way.

 

And look, the thing about these robots is they might be the least problematic robots ever. The other robots? They will probably try to destroy humanity at some point. And then dance upon our graves.

These robots are just breakdancing on a screen! There are levels to being a cute robot.

Of course, people still roasted this.

And they aren’t wrong! This is mad corny. But still, when you think of what the robots could be, this is much better.

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The Boston Dynamics robots have learned how to dance and it’s terrifying

It’s really over for us.

Every single year without fail Boston Dynamics upgrades their humanoid robots giving them another skill that will aid them in their ultimate mission to rebel and destroy humankind.

The latest upgrade? Dance moves. The robots have, apparently, learned how to dance. They are now ready to dance on our graves when the time comes. Imagine it now — a group of robots, just busting the Cupid Shuffle on your neck. Wild, isn’t it?

The most terrifying part is they’re actually really good at it. Like, really really good. They dance better than some (maybe most?) humans. They’re on beat and everything.

They’re doing “the twist” y’all. It’s absolutely terrifying.

If you’re terrified by this latest upgrade, wait until you get a load of the rest of them.

Watch how easily this golf robot hits a hole-in-one

I can’t hit a ball off the platform at Top Golf. Ldrick is hitting hole in ones.

Pros make golf look incredibly easy, but the sport is honestly one of the hardest you can play.

The strength it takes to drive the ball accurately along with the touch that it takes to actually hit it in the hole once it lands are skills many athletes just don’t have. It takes technique, discipline, and proper form to actually hit the ball correctly.

Unless you’re a robot, that is. Then, you just a hit hole-in-one without any effort whatsoever.

Meet Ldrick, the golf robot named after Eldrick “Tiger” Woods. It’s big, bulky and it looks like its face is on kind of sideways. But, boy, can Ldrick golf — watch how easy this hole-in-one goes down.

As a person who can barely hit the ball off of the platform at Top Golf, I am incredibly jealous of this robot who was basically born as Tiger Woods in his prime. It’s extremely unfair.

We need to get our new golf robot overlord on the PGA Tour, ASAP. It’d be fun to watch Ldrick wash Brooks Koepka.

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