Why don't they have 360 vision? Why does it need to turn its head or it's torso? Maybe just to make it more humanoid?
I am surprised by how much we have stuck to the human-shaped robot, seems like an octopus or something would be better.
Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video]
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#122Anyone who don't know what manufacturing automation looked like for past decades should go watch those "factory tours" video or two. Then write down what are shared characteristics of manually handled objects in it and what are deltas between those videos and this. There are just way too many fantasies around here. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQeQWGqfFN0 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csifG1AM5d8 3: https:…
You seem to imply that you have an answer to this. What are the shared characteristics of manually handled objects?
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#123Why don't they have 360 vision? Why does it need to turn its head or it's torso? Maybe just to make it more humanoid?
I am surprised by how much we have stuck to the human-shaped robot, seems like an octopus or something would be better.
Would that be better accepted by the public or robot buyer?
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#124Why don't they have 360 vision? Why does it need to turn its head or it's torso? Maybe just to make it more humanoid?
I am surprised by how much we have stuck to the human-shaped robot, seems like an octopus or something would be better.
The entire built environment to date is designed for humans
It’s the same reason why companies are throwing money at a self driving car which can coexist with manually driven cars, rather than building roads specifically for autonomy
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am surprised by how much we have stuck to the human-shaped robot, seems like an octopus or something would be better.
The entire built environment to date is designed for humans It’s the same reason why companies are throwing money at a self driving car which can coexist with manually driven cars, rather than building roads specifically for autonomy
Why build autonomous roads? Just invest in modern railways at that point.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Humans have an uptime of 16 hours, but generally speaking can only operate professionally for an 8 hour span. The other 8 hours are spent mostly doing personal maintenance and refueling their physical and mental capabilities. Oh, and humans have traditionally banded together to punish those who ask for more than 8 hours a day or 5 days a week, and have even historically gotten very murdery over the subject. Buyer bew…
The comparison does get kind of non-sensical. How much PTO does the robot use? Are they a culture fit? Do they have any insights for process improvement? If robots can replace humans for the most monotonous tasks, I'm all for it, as long as it doesn't hurt living conditions for those humans . But all these robots are only shown to us in very carefully controlled conditions. If a human was doing what we saw this robot…
> as long as it doesn't hurt living conditions for those humans
Literally how would it not? Losing your job hurts your living condition, it's not like the warehouse workers will just be given cushier tasks.
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#127Why don't they have 360 vision? Why does it need to turn its head or it's torso? Maybe just to make it more humanoid?
It’s probably a cost benefit thing.
How much do you benefit from 360 vision vs front facing camera.
You also get some relative directional information as well with the current design.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am surprised by how much we have stuck to the human-shaped robot, seems like an octopus or something would be better.
The entire built environment to date is designed for humans It’s the same reason why companies are throwing money at a self driving car which can coexist with manually driven cars, rather than building roads specifically for autonomy
What's that got to do with vision? They could have given it more cameras to avoid having to have a head to turn. That was OP's point.
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#129Still find it comical that Masayoshi sold it to Hyundai instead of Tesla. BD was the perfect fit for Tesla at the time. Now not so much and I am glad BD isn’t under Tesla umbrella.
Did Tesla want to buy BD? Haven't heard that before.
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#130At this point i consider these as fun show-off non-products.
Boston dyns may be building actual products for the US army, but none of their videos is interesting anymore. It s like watching Hollywood stunts