War of the Worlds (recent remake) is finally here!
That was my first thought on seeing this - it's eerily similar to the form factor of the Bob's.
Extreme parkour with legged robots
141–150 of 195 posts
Re: Extreme parkour with legged robots
#142Where did they buy this robot dog from? It looks like the Boston Dynamics one.
Unitree. I think it's equivalent to the Go1 which is ~$5k shipped (although I don't think that version gives you the SDK access needed to do these kinds of tricks). It's much smaller than Boston Dynamics' Spot.
It's the predecessor of Go1. If you buy the Pro/Edu version of Go1 then you get direct low level SDK control, though there are reverse engineering efforts that can do the same on the cheap ~5k version as well
Re: Extreme parkour with legged robots
#143I 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.
Well, for one obvious reason, that's not terribly interesting from a scientific perspective. For the other, legs are more versatile than wheels, especially when it comes to uneven terrain.
The best solution would be to add wheels as feet which gives you the best of both worlds. It does however add even more cost to an already outrageously priced robot.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/wheels-are-better-than-feet-for-le...
Re: Extreme parkour with legged robots
#144Whilst a lovely achievement, this title definitely overstates current robot abilities. Here is some human parkour for contrast: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QHqAVaQqQWQ&t=106s
The difference being each human has to spend thousands of hours learning that level of control over their bodies, and work hard to maintain that level of physical fitness. And if they fall off the roof, millions of dollars of potential earnings and GDP die with them. Whereas these robots are only $70k, and once one of them can do this, they all can do it. Just like with Chess and Go. It’s not impressive at first, the…
I think in humans it will be possible Matrix style as well
Re: Extreme parkour with legged robots
#145I'm sure this is impressive for an autonomous robot. However, as a fan of real parkour its kinda annoying to see some modest jumps and walking on a slope labelled "extreme parkour". What the robot demonstrates I'd expect any healthy 10 year old to be able to equal.
The metrics they're using (2x its height for climbing a wall, 2x its length for crossing a gap) are weird and don't really relate to the same achievements for a traceur. 2x its height is really more like slightly over 1x its usable body for that maneuver (0.4m length, 0.51cm height of the climb). I agree, not extreme but still pretty impressive for a robot. We're not going to see them doing cat leaps any time soon ;)
Totally agree with this! However, it's common for research papers to use exaggerated language to emphasize their breakthroughs and accomplishments. :)
Re: Extreme parkour with legged robots
#146Whilst a lovely achievement, this title definitely overstates current robot abilities. Here is some human parkour for contrast: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QHqAVaQqQWQ&t=106s
I think extreme refers to current robot's abilities rather than comparing them to humans (which is apple vs orange as humans are biological robots).
Re: Extreme parkour with legged robots
#147Whilst a lovely achievement, this title definitely overstates current robot abilities. Here is some human parkour for contrast: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QHqAVaQqQWQ&t=106s
The difference being each human has to spend thousands of hours learning that level of control over their bodies, and work hard to maintain that level of physical fitness. And if they fall off the roof, millions of dollars of potential earnings and GDP die with them. Whereas these robots are only $70k, and once one of them can do this, they all can do it. Just like with Chess and Go. It’s not impressive at first, the…
Yes, that's very true. Success for one robot means success for a whole bunch of robots. However, success for one Olympic athlete does not mean everyone can achieve the same level. That's the main difference.
Re: Extreme parkour with legged robots
#148Robot they're using is a Unitree A1: https://www.unitree.com/en/a1
Really useful information! Thanks!
Re: Extreme parkour with legged robots
#149Robot they're using is a Unitree A1: https://www.unitree.com/en/a1
What's the approx. price tag for one of those? (I'm not going to buy one, just curious)
Re: Extreme parkour with legged robots
#150Robot they're using is a Unitree A1: https://www.unitree.com/en/a1
What's the approx. price tag for one of those? (I'm not going to buy one, just curious)
$13,900