That first video of the bot standing from the floor and turning towards the camera one joint at a time does something strange to the uncanny valley horror movie part of my brain.
It's as if Pixar's Luxo was all grown up.
Luxo Jr got jacked.
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#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
They did say it’s for commercial use. Probably for warehouses and such where sadly backflipping is not relevant
You'll know AGI has really arrived when we do have factory robots backflipping and doing stupid stuff to amuse themselves.
And posting that to robot tiktok
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#263That first video of the bot standing from the floor and turning towards the camera one joint at a time does something strange to the uncanny valley horror movie part of my brain.
Yeah that head design doesn’t help things
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#264As we enter an era of wide scale robotic deployment, we need to think long and hard about what the maintenance bottleneck will look like. We need to advocate now for reliable and open upgrades, replacement parts, service documentation, and diagnostics.
Right to repair will be even more important for this technology than autos or general computing.
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#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks like CGI to me, the way to camera moves together with the depth of field and that things appear too shiny. They don't state anything about it so I don't know what to believe.
Funny how the ubiquity of AI generated artwork plus the shitty quality of phone videos has made people to think that "high quality + depth of field = fake". However if you look closely the robot does have scuffs and scratches on it so I think it's real.
I think it's real, but any good texture artist would include scuffs and scratches on the model.
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#266Are 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.
New York and Los Angeles at least use them (Spot) already. Nestle and AB InBev in their facilities apparently. Paris uses it for Metro inspections. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFRcle4Szo4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Y52zjZYXo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9pZQ29RSz4I https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XPOpnJSldUg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p535RRR5MqM
SpaceX has one for what I imagine is PR purposes.
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#267That first video of the bot standing from the floor and turning towards the camera one joint at a time does something strange to the uncanny valley horror movie part of my brain.
At first look, it reminded me of the "Supervisor" robots from "Budget Cuts":
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#268Does anyone else think the joints seem stiffer than the hydraulic version? The head and torso are receiving a lot of shock forces with each step. That seems like a downgrade from the previous one. It clearly has a much larger range of motion and if it is also stronger as claimed then I can't wait for the acrobatics videos that are surely coming. But I think the most exciting thing is that it has hands from the start.…
I'd assume this is just a software problem. As long as we are talking about the stiffness of the joints and not the limbs I see no reason to not be able so simulate it.
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#269That first video of the bot standing from the floor and turning towards the camera one joint at a time does something strange to the uncanny valley horror movie part of my brain.
Yes, very strong T-1000 vibes – the way it keeps reversing "front" and "back" almost feels like a deliberate reference to that moment in Terminator 2.
It would be useful to have a robot made of that mimetic polyalloy though...
Re: An electric new era for Atlas
#270As we enter an era of wide scale robotic deployment, we need to think long and hard about what the maintenance bottleneck will look like. We need to advocate now for reliable and open upgrades, replacement parts, service documentation, and diagnostics. Right to repair will be even more important for this technology than autos or general computing.