WATCH: Everyone laugh at this pitiful robot clanker failing miserably while dancing to Michael Jackson

A robot was performing a dance routine to Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean at some kind of live show and completely collapsed in the middle of the performance.

This dumb little clanker just fell over. Done. Couldn’t handle the choreography, obviously, because it’s Michael Jackson he’s trying to replicate.

Pitiful Robot Clanker Fails Miserably Dancing to Michael Jackson

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The best part of the entire video was the guy who came out at the end, grabbed the robot by whatever you grab a robot by, and dragged that clanker off the stage like a bouncer removing a drunk person from a bar.

First of all, you have to be a different level of weird to attend a dancing robot show.

Who is buying tickets to this? Who is sitting in an audience watching a machine attempt to moonwalk and thinking “this is a good use of my evening”?

These are the same people who are going to line up to get microchipped by Elon Musk or Apple or Palantir the first chance they get.

No questions asked. Just walk right up, extend their arm, and say “put the chip in me, I’m ready.” The dancing clanker show audience and the early-adopter microchip crowd is a perfect circle on a Venn diagram.

I would rather watch actual paint dry than sit through a Chinese robot poorly dancing to Billie Jean. Michael Jackson is one of the greatest performers in the history of human civilization. The man could move in ways that defied physics. He invented moves that people are still trying to replicate 40 years later.

Some tech company thought the appropriate tribute was to have a stiff, jerky robot attempt to recreate that magic on a stage in front of paying customers? Disrespectful to Michael. Disrespectful to Billie Jean. Disrespectful to the concept of dancing itself.

Making clankers dance is beyond stupid.

I need the tech industry to hear me on this. Nobody needs a robot that can do the moonwalk. You know what people actually need? A clanker that does laundry. A clanker that cleans the house. A clanker that mows the lawn. A clanker that folds fitted sheets because no human being has ever successfully done that in the history of civilization.

Seriously though, who gives a shit if a robot can or cannot dance to Michael Jackson?

Clearly it can’t even do that without falling over.

Point being, the priorities are completely backwards. Billions of dollars being poured into artificial intelligence and robotics and the best they can show the public is a dancing machine that collapses on stage and delivery robots that get stuck on curbs.

We’re supposed to be impressed by this? We’re supposed to believe this technology is going to change the world because a robot can poorly imitate a dead musician’s choreography for 90 seconds before eating shit in front of an audience?

Part of me thinks this is all by design though?

The AI bubble right now is specifically engineered to show the public the dumbest, most harmless applications first.

Dancing clankers. Delivery bots. AI-generated slop on social media. Chatbots that write your emails. “Look how cool and fun and harmless this all is!” They want you comfortable. They want you laughing at robots falling over on stage.

They want you thinking this technology is a cute novelty that makes funny videos.

Then one day they swoop in with the real stuff….

The dark stuff. The surveillance. The automation that actually replaces your job. The systems that track everything you do and everywhere you go. The military applications that nobody is talking about on the evening news.

The dancing robots are the opening act. The real show hasn’t started yet. But by the time it does, everyone will already be too comfortable with the technology to push back.

That’s how it works. Make it fun first. Make it essential second. Make it inescapable third.

The robot couldn’t even make it through the song. It collapsed. On stage. In front of an audience. The machine that is supposedly going to replace human workers and take over the world couldn’t survive a three-minute dance routine without face-planting.

These are the things people are worried about taking their jobs? This clanker can’t even stand up while doing the robot. The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

The guy who dragged it off stage is my hero. No hesitation. No concern for the robot’s well-being. Just walked out, grabbed it, and pulled it off like it was a piece of broken furniture.

That’s how robots should be treated. You malfunction? You get dragged. No sympathy. No tech support. You get hauled off the stage by a human being who doesn’t care about your feelings because you don’t have any.

Anti-clanker forever. Keep the robots off the stage and away from Billie Jean.

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