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Looks like Atlas may have had an accident during filming, there's a hydraulic fluid stain on the floor: https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw?t=163 And it must also be said that these are preprogrammed maneuvers on a closed course...
> there's a hydraulic fluid stain on the floor: The robot equivalent of performance anxiety.
As someone who worked in robotics at CMU in the mid 80s with Whittaker, & Raibert, and Crowley this was definitely super exciting to watch. You've come a long way baby. I remember watching you great, great grandfather hopping around in Raibert's lab in 1984. Yeah, and sort of scary.
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Really scary. Whenever I see the latest Boston Dynamics video, I’m always thinking ‘and now imagine it’s hunting you’.
Watch Black Mirror episode called Metalhead.
It’s like a totally different series to that last season with vr-gay/not-gay falcon man and Miley Cyrus signing a bad NiN cover.
But yea. The mean robot dogs, just good short form story telling with so little dialog.
Is it reliability? Did this video a zillion takes?
Is it manufacturing? Maybe it's hard to scale them up?
Is it battery life? Maybe it can power itself for just a few minutes?
Is it object manipulation or sensing/world understanding? Maybe it can't apply the right forces to a soft thing or a flexible thing or know what it can step on vs over or what will move or stay still?
Is it just that anything worth automating is worth specializing, and there are better robots for different specific tasks?
We've seen industrial robots for a while now, and these more general robots have gotten really good, so where are they?
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I would go further than that and say that it's obviously CGI, though I don't know if that actually means it is CGI - it could be, as you mentioned, some sort of post-processing. Or maybe it's greenscreened and composited together? More than the smoothness, there just seems to be something off about the weight and momentum that you tend to see in high-end, big-budget-movie CGI, but it's hard to put a definite finger o…
Change playback speed to 50% and it looks more realistic. That's probably realtime and they sped up the video.
If I didn't know who Boston Dynamics was, I would have said that this is just CGI. The animations look so fake. I think the issue is that they're aggressively smoothing the motion since mechanical systems don't have the ability to accelerate & jerk as fast as biological systems. Cheap mocap animation has the same problem because the frame rate of the capture system is too low. They interpolate between captured keyfra…
I had the same feeling, and I assume they evoked this feeling intentionally trough the lighting, camera movement, etc...
It's all fun and games until they install the guns on these things.
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I would go further than that and say that it's obviously CGI, though I don't know if that actually means it is CGI - it could be, as you mentioned, some sort of post-processing. Or maybe it's greenscreened and composited together? More than the smoothness, there just seems to be something off about the weight and momentum that you tend to see in high-end, big-budget-movie CGI, but it's hard to put a definite finger o…
Change playback speed to 50% and it looks more realistic. That's probably realtime and they sped up the video.