That is a very good-looking robot and no doubt very capable. But did I see correctly that it can just turn it legs 180 degrees to move backwards, as well as it's head? Talk about super-human abilities! Bit creepy though
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#22What's the best way/resource to get an honest/pragmatic view of where things stand with the "robots market" in general and how much and fast things are really progressing? I remember seeing prototypes from Toshiba when I was 10 (20 years ago), and every few months, there is a company releasing an "amazing video." its mother company then spins it off like there's no adequate progress, and so on.
I'd say Tesla is the leader or could quickly become the leader given their intense investment in FSD. If a car software can "understand the physical world" using vision Ai / neural nets, it shouldn't be out of the question to reoptimize that software for the rest of the "physical world". Especially when you need a whole lot less safety standards compared to a 3,000lb 70MPH vehicle. Hell, the Optimus engineers said th…
A road (most) has marked lanes and signage to provide a huge amount of contextual information. The world (and human interaction) is highly ambiguous and dynamic. Tesla is optimizing for the road.
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#23They also posted a farewell to the previous robot yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9EM5_VFlt8
Looking forward to see some more robot parkour/dance
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#24Are there any Boston Dynamic robots currently in use? Specifically the biped ones, but I'm also interested in the quadrupeds, which they seemed to be pushing for military/search and rescue/packhorse uses.
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#25They found the bottom of the uncanny valley and started digging.
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#26They found the bottom of the uncanny valley and started digging.
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#27They found the bottom of the uncanny valley and started digging.
That was my first thought.
Shock value PR stunt? Moving the Overton window for the general public’s aversion to what comes next?
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#28That is a very good-looking robot and no doubt very capable. But did I see correctly that it can just turn it legs 180 degrees to move backwards, as well as it's head? Talk about super-human abilities! Bit creepy though
Very cool actuation indeed. I'm not in robotics, so this could be fan fiction, but: I guess they have figured out the physics engines for these things meaningfully, so I guess innovating on hardware can be the next focus? I feel like a lot of the early bots were just to understand the real word implications of the physics they simulated, now that they understand robot physics extremely well and seems to have built a whole OS around that, I suspect they can plug it into any hardware that they want? They have it to the point where they might be somewhat decoupled? If anyone who works in robotics sees this and can say if that is correct thinking or not, I'd be very curious.
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#29Seems like they just posted a video about the new Atlas https://youtu.be/29ECwExc-_M
Wow, the ways All New Atlas can move in are really something else. Really channels that Star Wars battle droid vibes.
I found it creepy at first, then I saw a comment saying it looks like the lamp from the Pixar intro and now I can’t take it seriously. Beautiful movement, though. I hope one day they’ll be simple and powerful enough to replace people in high-risk jobs, where you could even just control one remotely and perform tasks that way.
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#30feels incredibly eery. it doesn't move like how my brain expects a humanoid being to move. reminds me of how the EMMI's move in Metroid Dread... especially when it goes from the prone position to standing. maybe its my DNA or i've played enough video games to realize that this thing is probably not my friend and will not end well. uncanny valley vibes.