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Why doesn't it use existing momentum to get over that gap or up on the ledge? It slows down before it makes the jump
Out of curiosity, is everyone of university age good at clickbait now? Like the whole point of saying “extreme” parkour is to boost engagement from pedantic analytic people like us talking about the hyperbolic title choice
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Of course, the details of how to actually implement something like this are way more complex than "just throw everything into a big neural net with images as the inputs and actuators as the output". You need to provide the right kind of guidance in order to learn a usable policy in any reasonable amount of time. A very recent development (which this work builds on) is the idea of "online adaptation". It essentially i…
I guess this is why evolution is taking unreasonable amounts of time.
Where do you need to be ?
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> Is the US supplying offensive weapons to Ukraine contributing to the national defense? It's not. It's contributing to European security, and as such is necessary for the US to reaffirm their suzerainty over Europe, but it's not really about US defense and even less about National Security. (I'm glad they do btw, because we European powers would have left Ukraine fall after deciding it would be too expensive to help…
European security is national security via geopolitics. Being a global superpower has many benefits for US citizens.
If you consider “national security” to be a meaningless buzzword and not an actual concept, you can say that. It's as accurate as saying “US sports results at the Olympics is a national security issue via soft power”.
Pretty much everything is “national security” by that standards.
> Being a global superpower has many benefits for US citizens.
Sure, but most of them don't have anything to do with national security.
Or is it some nuance of metals vs carbon-based joints?
I'm curious why the leg joints hinge towards the posterior, instead of away from the posterior like they do in dogs. Seems we would want to mimic the nature model as optimal, however does this imply the robot model performs better, in a way that somehow all quadrupeds didn't evolve to? Or is it some nuance of metals vs carbon-based joints?
I am always wondering, why they build such complicated biology inspired robots, while they can build something with wheels and simple levels which allows robot to jump over obstacles and turn upside down if it landed on the back.
For the other, legs are more versatile than wheels, especially when it comes to uneven terrain.
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I guess this is why evolution is taking unreasonable amounts of time.
Assuming time has no end, what would be a reasonable amount of time ? Let’s say you could evolve at 10000x the speed ? So what ? Where do you need to be ?
Where is debatable, but you definitely need to be there by end of Q3 or we miss P&E targets.