Do You Love Me? [video]
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Re: Do You Love Me? [video]
#72So what's the main barrier to using these industrially? 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…
as with many things, probably the cost
Re: Do You Love Me? [video]
#73So what's the main barrier to using these industrially? 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…
Is it cost?
Re: Do You Love Me? [video]
#74Jesus y'all are so cynical, commenting on how these are war bots and gonna automate everything away, I just think it's an engineering marvel that these insanely complex robotic maneuvers can be done so fluidly now
Yeah, that was our first thought as well.
And then....
;-)
Re: Do You Love Me? [video]
#75Looks 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...
I just wonder to what extent this is pre-programmed. Surely the engineers gave some sort of high level description, and let the robots figure out the rest. Also, it's probably not possible to acount for all the variability of the environment beforehand, so the "recording" played back does not contain every move to the last detail.
Re: Do You Love Me? [video]
#76It's all fun and games until they install the guns on these things.
A predator drone can fire a hellfire missile from kilometers away and hit a car windshield, killing the passengers with a set of pop-out blades. I don't think humanoid robots are going to be a tipping point.
I think there is a very real difference in air power vs ground power that seems to have played out through history.
Re: Do You Love Me? [video]
#77http://www.theytookourjobs.com
It's a joke now but there is going to be a sizable amount of property damage to these things once this shift occurs.
Re: Do You Love Me? [video]
#78It's all fun and games until they install the guns on these things.
Mind controlling the people via the internet seems more urgent
Re: Do You Love Me? [video]
#79It’s hard to shake of the feeling that those aren’t rendered. However, it’s also kind of sad that this amazing technology goes from one owner to another without a clear push into the real world.
Seems to be a capital intensive business with no clear path to commercialization.
The robots developed by ABB, KUKA, Mitsubishi and similars are very different to what Boston Dynamics is trying to build.
These are impressive robots but their utilitarian value is too low. An industrial robot by ABB with a clear use case in a manufacturing process costs like $80k. An impressive toy robot with no clear use case like Boston Dynamics’ Spot also costs $80k.
If these robots had a clear use case besides carrying heavy stuff, BD valuation would be 5X or 10X their current valuation.
Of course the real value would be to use their research and know-how on these type of high-mobility/low foot-footprint robotics into actual industrial settings and use cases.
Google didn’t have any internal use case for this tech and commercializing the technology as a vendor is way out of their competence and probably not enough value there to justify extra investment in sales, supply chain, etc.
SoftBank was just doing what it has been doing for the last decade which is investing in shiny things.
Hyundai may be the first owner to actually have a clear use case for this tech.
Re: Do You Love Me? [video]
#80It's interesting how in manufacturing (and other industries with lots of automation) we are trying to move away from humans as much as possible, while Boston Dynamics is trying to replicate humans as much as possible.
Of course there will always be cases where we want to send a robot into an environment designed for humans (ex. firefighting) so there is value in humanoid robots, but it's interesting to me that we are going in two completely opposite directions with robotics. Imo humanoid robots will have some limited uses, but ultimately not be as useful as robots built for specific tasks.