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My understanding is that the majority of research was completed within the past few decades, in comparison to the relative nascency of modern deep learning techniques.
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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 firs…
Have you seen the behind the scenes video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EezdinoG4mk
Are these incredibly expensive or have a regulatory hurdle or something? I feel like we've been seeing increasingly sophisticated demos like this for over a decade now and yet nothing has really made it to market that I can tell. Maybe there just literally aren't many good use cases for the types of robots made by Boston dynamics?
No. But it's just a demo. In perfect conditions if you run it 100 times this is the result. In the real world they have no application as they fail pretty much always in real conditions. But this is research, pushing things in controlled conditions help you learn what you can do in less controlled conditions. Though sometimes it's just a deadend. The exact same thing is true of YouTuber stunt videos. Any very impress…
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I could see this. Especially robot armies marching back into the middle east. I can also see robot caregivers for the elderly. Or in cities built for pedestrians a robot walking next to you carrying your shopping bags or escorting your kids to school with a live video feed back to the parents. Fire trucks pulling up and 50 robots jumping out and running into a burning building to carry people out. Could go either way…
Or, rather than any of these special-purpose autonomous robots, the most likely outcome: fully-articulated telepresence robots, allowing people using VR to do anything a human could physically do, remotely. That covers pretty much all of the above use-cases and more, without assuming advances in high-level strategic AI; just good low-level motor-model learning as already exists here, plus good Internet and input meth…
That’s cool and all, but how long before they can manage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx-vUsShk9U (Robot fight in “Outside the Wire”).
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?
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Or, rather than any of these special-purpose autonomous robots, the most likely outcome: fully-articulated telepresence robots, allowing people using VR to do anything a human could physically do, remotely. That covers pretty much all of the above use-cases and more, without assuming advances in high-level strategic AI; just good low-level motor-model learning as already exists here, plus good Internet and input meth…
Don't forget 1) carrying enough energy 2) getting the price point down to what people are prepared to pay for telepresence. These are very tough indeed.
I wonder if it would be possible to setup a multi-agent reinforcement learning scenario where a few of those play tag over a complex terrain.
Certainly impressive. I almost get the sense that these robots would be bored out of their minds working in an Amazon fulfillment center.