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#12If I didn't know who Boston Dynamics was, I would have said that this is just CGI. The animations look so fake. I think the issue is that they're aggressively smoothing the motion since mechanical systems don't have the ability to accelerate & jerk as fast as biological systems. Cheap mocap animation has the same problem because the frame rate of the capture system is too low. They interpolate between captured keyfra…
I would go further than that and say that it's obviously CGI, though I don't know if that actually means it is CGI - it could be, as you mentioned, some sort of post-processing. Or maybe it's greenscreened and composited together? More than the smoothness, there just seems to be something off about the weight and momentum that you tend to see in high-end, big-budget-movie CGI, but it's hard to put a definite finger o…
There's a similar effect in old movies when a super-strong character picks up a massive boulder that is actually made of styrofoam or something. You can tell that the mass is wrong based on the way it moves.
I think this is a similar effect but in reverse -- we know the limbs are heavy and aren't made of styrofoam, so the fact that they are moving like they are is uncanny. Our brains aren't used to motorized and hydraulic limbs.
You can get a little bit of this effect watching assembly line arms sometimes, but it's less jarring because they are clearly disembodied, whereas this thing is fairly humanoid.
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#13As someone who worked in robotics at CMU in the mid 80s with Whittaker, & Raibert, and Crowley this was definitely super exciting to watch. You've come a long way baby. I remember watching you great, great grandfather hopping around in Raibert's lab in 1984. Yeah, and sort of scary.
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#14It's all fun and games until they install the guns on these things.
I don't really want robot weapons but I would love to see a firing range demonstration with one, just to see what's possible when you get super-human aiming.
I don't see a future for humanoid bots in war. Missiles and drones seems to render anything else redundant. Policing in a few more generations seems possible, at least at a technical level.
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#15It was all fun and games at first.
Then the second robot came into the picture. I went LOL.
Then Spot came into the picture, and my heart skipped a beat.
Then the velociraptor on wheels came into the picture, and I just lost it. I think my brain just melted down.
Next stop: Guns. Lots of guns.
Time to be afraid. Very afraid.
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#16First 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 ?
Up until recently with the sale of Spot robots, YouTube videos were Boston Dynamics' main product.
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#17This is a great commercial for basic income.
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#18It's a mashup of clips taken at different times (engineer in the background, no engineer, engineer in the same apot again, etc).
The balancing of the first bipedal robot doesn't seem right to my human eyes, but I think it's conceivable that computers controling a robot could manage it. Also, the dual bipedal robots aren't perfectly in-sync which is either very good cgi, or it's real.
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#20It’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.