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Re: Do You Love Me? [video]

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Post by dbcurtis »

rhn_mk1 wrote: post #75
gene-h wrote: post #21

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...

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.

They would have specified target trajectories. Then a solver tries to make that happen.

Re: Do You Love Me? [video]

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Post by kazinator »

SubGenius wrote: post #95
kazinator wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alternative version: I remember watching your great grandmother's legs cavorting around in Herbie Hancock's "Rock It" video ... in 1984. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY

Ah, thanks for sharing the song. Haven't heard it in a while. I was listening to Chick Corea's 80s material earlier today though. That era had a lot of cheesy sounding jazz fusion that I can't get enough of!

I'm mostly a rock and roll and metal head, but I listened to a lot of Chick Corea in the 80's, like the Where Have I Known You Before album from his Return to Forever band.

These days, I use a Canadian streaming service called Stingray Music. There, I just discovered a channel called "For the fans of Weather Report". It streams all that sort of stuff nonstop. Mahavishnu, Hancock, ...

Re: Do You Love Me? [video]

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Post by cma »

neilpanchal wrote: post #106

I am a huge fan of spartan-like no-bullshit brutalist approach towards their marketing/PR: - No studio setup, just their lab - No artificial lighting - No fucks given about hiding the mess - Robots going through surgery in the background - Song is classy af IMO - Can see the camera man - Can see the engineers/employees - Framing/cinematography isn't as polished (this is a feature, not a bug) - Chipped paint, beaten u…

They had pretty heavy studio lighting in this:

https://youtu.be/wlkCQXHEgjA

Re: Do You Love Me? [video]

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Post by dbcurtis »

dbcurtis wrote: post #121
rhn_mk1 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They would have specified target trajectories. Then a solver tries to make that happen.

Now that I think about it, all the robots have synchronized trajectories. There has to be some kind of time sync among the robots also.

Re: Do You Love Me? [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

dougmwne wrote: post #84
unwoundmouse wrote: post #64

Jesus 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, but can you really blame us? As incredible as this is from a technical perspective, it rings immediate alarm bells about the future of war. These have speed and agility and can reasonably go anywhere a person could go. And YouTube entertainment aside, what really is the use case of athletic robots outside of warfare? It's not much of a leap to attach a gun and connect to a remote human operator. Now you can wag…

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Re: Do You Love Me? [video]

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Post by one2know »

11thEarlOfMar wrote: post #7

First reaction: It's official. I am very afraid. Second reaction: When's the OK Go video released? Third reaction: They paid Boston Dynamics engineers to do this ?

Why would anyone be afraid of these? You should be afraid of stealth drones three miles up with air to ground missiles. They are unstoppable without electronic countermeasures.

Re: Do You Love Me? [video]

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Post by rusk »

oconnor663 wrote: post #119
espadrine wrote: post #38

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> The animations look so fake. Let’s talk about why it looks fake. I think it comes from the use of hydraulics. Biological muscle is way less linear (it works more like a second-order control system, where things often overshoot their target before dampening). But one part of it may also be algorithmic: the robot’s Kalman filter (?) may correct for errors from sensor fusion much faster than a human would. I would lov…

To me it looks like claymation. But of course I can't really explain what it means for something to "look like claymation" to me. Is it that the movement is too isolated? Not isolated enough? Both of those things at the same time in different ways?

Subliminally jerky - you can’t directly perceive it but you are aware of it.

Re: Do You Love Me? [video]

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Post by serf »

joe_the_user wrote: post #104
bozzcl wrote: post #87

I love how there were people in the upper floor just walking by without even looking. "Oh, the robots are dancing again." In between the advances in "holographic" displays (not quite as sci-fi as we would want, but they are progressing), commercial space flight, cybernetic prosthetics, CRISPR and this... we are living in the future. It's amazing. It makes me a little sad more people are not aware of the ridiculously…

My sister used live next to the Boston Dynamics facility in Waltham. She'd walk her on the nearby river path and generally disliked the way Boston Dynamics would periodically take over the path and keep her from using. Part of the reason the robots evoke little excitement is because after a short look, you can realize they're just large puppets. We've had dancing puppets like Walt Disney's Small World. The reason Bos…

>Part of the reason the robots evoke little excitement is because after a short look, you can realize they're just large puppets.

I think it's more like the Feynman example of how a scientist may look at a flower.

A person may see a full-size puppet when they see a choreographed robot, but all I can think about is how complicated the mechanisms -- software and hardware -- must be in order to dynamically balance a robot while maintaining whatever timing is called out for the choreography work; and the person-hours that such work must have consumed.

Re: Do You Love Me? [video]

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Post by nxc18 »

unwoundmouse wrote: post #64

Jesus 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, nothing to be afraid of, for sure.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GM3GM299orc

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