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Re: Atlas robot does parkour

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Post by kingsloi » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

scythmic_waves wrote: post #6

retSava wrote: post #2

This is the video with the blog post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk To me, I like to see when they stutter or slightly-fail, since that to indicates the dynamics and real-time part of the thing, that it is not a 100% scripted thing (although the blog post mentions the engineers fine-tuning the celebratory arm-pump, to what extent is that scripted then?)

That video is partly CGI, right? I can't find a smoking gun but it doesn't look entirely real.

yeah definitely odd looking. I thought maybe just like 5k@60fps or something and my peasant eyes were just bad, but deffo odd looking

Re: Atlas robot does parkour

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Post by gcheong » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 4:14 PM UTC

Certainly impressive. I almost get the sense that these robots would be bored out of their minds working in an Amazon fulfillment center.

Re: Atlas robot does parkour

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Post by alecst » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

delgaudm wrote: post #8

I'm not a particularly pessimistic person in general, but I don't know ...this tech, while cool, feels like the precursor to a worse future in general. Maybe I've seen too much sci-fi, but these robots look like optimizing for future soldiers, law enforcement etc. Given all the other Self-Driving / Facial Recognition / Loss of Privacy / Deepfake / "AI is bad at recognizing $situation"-type posts, and as all these tec…

Same. It's undeniably cool. But with developments like this, I just picture humanity slowly writing its own epitaph.

Re: Atlas robot does parkour

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Post by sparrish » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

Strangely portions look like stop-motion with the stuttering.

Re: Atlas robot does parkour

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Post by KMnO4 » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

scythmic_waves wrote: post #6

retSava wrote: post #2

This is the video with the blog post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk To me, I like to see when they stutter or slightly-fail, since that to indicates the dynamics and real-time part of the thing, that it is not a 100% scripted thing (although the blog post mentions the engineers fine-tuning the celebratory arm-pump, to what extent is that scripted then?)

That video is partly CGI, right? I can't find a smoking gun but it doesn't look entirely real.

Most likely it’s real. That said, we don’t know how many 10s-100s of takes this was done in. This single video could be the results of hundreds of hours of fine tuning parameters.

Re: Atlas robot does parkour

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Post by scythmic_waves » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

dane-pgp wrote: post #9

scythmic_waves wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That video is partly CGI, right? I can't find a smoking gun but it doesn't look entirely real.

As one of the comments on the video says, that feeling is an example of the "uncanny mountain" effect.

I'm not so sure.

1. [EDIT: IGNORE THIS POINT] They've done this before. [1]

2. To get more specific, look at the robot's legs around 0:09-0:16. They don't seem to be moving normally.

I don't have professional video analysis chops, but I'd put some money on this being fake.

Happy be to be proven wrong, though.

EDIT: It appears I remembered this story incorrectly, and posted a link without reading it. I retract my first statement. I'll leave the link for posterity, though.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/6/17/18681682/boston-dyna...

Re: Atlas robot does parkour

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Post by lanerobertlane » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

gcheong wrote: post #12

Certainly impressive. I almost get the sense that these robots would be bored out of their minds working in an Amazon fulfillment center.

That's why they sell them to the police and military and put guns in their hands instead.

Re: Atlas robot does parkour

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Post by prepend » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

What can I do to defend myself against killer robots?

Seriously, is there something simple that I can put in my glovebox of my car to use in case these robots start getting scary? Is there a simple household good that will work well against these, until they start explicitly shielding against stuff?

Re: Atlas robot does parkour

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Post by kingsloi » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

delgaudm wrote: post #8

I'm not a particularly pessimistic person in general, but I don't know ...this tech, while cool, feels like the precursor to a worse future in general. Maybe I've seen too much sci-fi, but these robots look like optimizing for future soldiers, law enforcement etc. Given all the other Self-Driving / Facial Recognition / Loss of Privacy / Deepfake / "AI is bad at recognizing $situation"-type posts, and as all these tec…

I get some Black Mirror-esque vibes from this sort of tech, too. The 90s kid in me also gets MechWarrior vibes, too.

Also, I looked a while ago but is there anything up and coming in the anti-facial recognition space? I know that some guy created an almost life-like replica of his own face for sale, and then there were some sort of reflectors, but anything that cannot be outlawed, like a full face covering, would be cool.

Re: Atlas robot does parkour

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Post by mastax » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 4:18 PM UTC

frozenport wrote: post #10

delgaudm wrote: post #8

I'm not a particularly pessimistic person in general, but I don't know ...this tech, while cool, feels like the precursor to a worse future in general. Maybe I've seen too much sci-fi, but these robots look like optimizing for future soldiers, law enforcement etc. Given all the other Self-Driving / Facial Recognition / Loss of Privacy / Deepfake / "AI is bad at recognizing $situation"-type posts, and as all these tec…

firefighters, nurses, construction workers

When we automate the last jobs that can't be offshored we'll have to ask some questions as a society.