Boston Dynamics Robot

They sold Boston Dynamics to a Japanese company SoftBank.

Plans maybe, but unless you have evidence to back up your claim, I'll just go ahead and dismiss you.

Two factors

Exoskeletons/mechs are dangerous (serious if not fatal injuries in case if something bends some way a human body can't).
Also a different subject since this robots, while controlled by a human, balance and move themselves without direct input.

Technically there's very little reason to develop mechs now, since you can replicate a mech control panel somewhere else and remote control the robot with it.

What's the point of creating robots human-like?
Aren't there better choices? Humans don't seem like best structurally shaped things.

It's probably sub-optimal but most of our environments and tools are designed for human body anyway. E.g. Spot Mini or Cassie most likely won't be able to climb ladders, while Atlas will be.

You know how this will end up. I, for one, welcome our anime-girl Hitler overlords.

Exoskeletons can have mechanical limits to avoid articulations bending the wrong way, and mechs won't bend since you are supposed to pilot them from inside a cabin. Mechs are impractical for other reasons, such as being so fuckhueg balancing them may prove difficult, or because the only upside of making them locally manned would be signal jammer immunity.

Gundam-style mechs are a pipe dream anyway. We will be more likely to design Tachikoma-style mechs than impractical bipedal stuff.

Srs?

The obvious military advantages just scream out here user.

You. I like you.

Hate to break it to ye guys, but Gundam mechs are more plausible than the AI that can think in human terms.

This has to be elaborate CGI.

Both will literally happen before you die user. Enjoy the ride.

As a TD in the character animation field I can tell you it plainly has MOCAP written all over it. As a student in robotics and AI, I can guess it has a kinematic model built on a large set of takes by a single man. It's real user.

Given the balancing dynos, he was probably made to wear a backpack to simulate the weight of the robot's batteries, scaled ofc to the correct amounts. I'm betting an asian guy, probably Chinese.

Motion Capturing definetly makes sense. What I wonder is how they generate that much power output (in the literal sense). If they are using electromagnetical actuators (what I suppose), then they need some big ass capacitors for supplying the jumping movements. Propably that thing is overheated after this video shot too and needs to cool down some time.
In general, I really admire what Boston Dynamics offers, technological-wise. But the overwhelming feelig I get is, that in some years, when the NWO is in place, these fuckers will hunt me down the streets because I accidentally whispered some wrongthink out loudly, aksing me to provide biometrical identification. If I don't comply, they arrest me and take me to cell 101.

You've just outlined all the engineering requirements and tradeoffs in a single post user. Well played.

As for being hunted down like dogs in the streets, tbqh I think, well, dogs would do a better job at it. Link related.

That was my first thought, too. It moves like a human, not like a learning machine that has learned the most efficient ways to move by trail and error.
Then again, Boston Dynamics is an investment scam. Their main business is creating PR material to solicit money, not building robots. This could be a kinetic sculpture, designed to replicate movements from a mocap library. They have done this before with their running machines. In this case it can only perform the exact movements shown in the video, maybe some extra flourishes to show off to potential investors in person, and nothing more.
I wish there was more to it. But, they, or someone licensing their tech, would have started selling products a decade ago, if they were interested in creating products, or serious research, at all.

You've got it user.

As a student of control theory I have to say, this is most likely impossible. If this is not CGI, it has to comply with the laws of physics. You can't even emagine how difficult it is to control (in the sense of closed feedback loops) simple motions, let alone landing a backflip without killing yourself (the robot). Not possible by just replicating the kinematics of a movement (if it is inherently unstable, like losing contact to the floor). I know they make extensive use of neural networks to accomplish difficult control tasks, but this one is a bit over the top.

Only the training phase needs prohibitively costly computation user. The runtime phase is relatively cheap and, even at that, easily off-loaded to external hardware in a dog-and-pony scenario such as this demo.

Their tethered running machines are legit. I think you can even buy one of them. But they can only perform a small set of pre-programmed motions. Add some modern capacitors (they only have to last for a second or so) and modern processors and you are not too far of from what's shown in the video. It would still be useless, but it does look really neat in a youtube video.

Actually, now that it's all under the control of the Nips, this shit will be made real. The national government has a yuge vested intredast in creating a robohumanoid service sector, particularly in the elderly care field.

It may be fake now, but give it five years user.

Sadly, that's the deal with those kind of companies. They always have the biggest parties, the best presentations and the friendliest representatives. But they always need just a few more years of research.

you need to go back

so far, so legit
Kek. Maybe the big pharma companies have an interest in keeping elderly people alive to farm off their pensions. The government only has one goal, which is total control. And these robots are a platform that seems it can just offer that.

lolnou. the Internet, with all it's wild, zany educational opportunities, is a thing user. try it someday.

Fair points. But I'm quite certain SoftBank will take these guys down an entirely different path than DARPA was. Japan will make anime real, it's inevitable. The alternatives are simply too costly at this point for their nation's infrastructure and economy.

As an X my like opinion somehow matters more. No, fuck off. You queers need to go back to Reddit and bugchase over there. I cannot stand the way you valley fags talk. We will judge you on what you say, not any credentials you bestow upon yourself like a desperate appeal to authority. Die in a fire.

We were created in the image of our creator, it only makes sense that our creations are made in our image.

Not really. I'd rather not repeat his mistakes. I'd go with some sort of tentacle monster, if I had to design a death machine meant to operate in human spaces.

It was cute at the end. Made me laugh.

You meant "I" there, but you have a point. No input on the topic from you nonetheless.

Except an armor. The robot will be much much more precise and lethal for you at a 200m distance than you for him at 10m anyway.

Will most likely include protection against that.

Dogs get tired. Dogs don't see very well in the dark. Dogs can be killed more easily. Dogs can't have real time access to city CCTV. Dogs can't carry and fire guns. Dogs can't silently coordinate with each other in real time over large distances.

Why would it? Humans have a relatively optimized walk already so it's far better to train this robot, which has a human-like anatomy, with human data.

Brutal quadruped. If I saw that thing bearing down on me with a pair of miniguns at it's side I'd do a 360 and run tbh.

Fair enough. Since I actually am a TD, I expect my understanding of both kinematics, system rigging and structural constraints for animatable systems somewhat outstrips the norm. Not to mention a wide swath of several other related topics to robotics in general. Don't like it? Prove me wrong on some point related point. Otherwise, kindly fuck off you'reself friend.

Plebeian.

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It would be best to let it learn by mistake in a simulated environment.

My sides.
Waifubots soon.

I'll bet a shotgun blast close range would wreck that thing. There's also the issue of energy consumption. It has a long way to go before it resembles Arnold.

lost

Daily reminder that a robot is useless when it's proprietary. Only good robot is FLOSS robot.

Absolutely. My first designs will all use only linux or other open sauce OS, the code will all be open sauce (probably BSD license) and all the printable parts and other designs will be freely available and open sauce too.

I don't think open sourcing kill routines is a good idea unless you want Skynet to come to life sooner.

Skynet was proprietary software tho

As says, if Skynet had been FLOSS, Terminator 3 would have never happened. Which, paradoxically, would have also eliminated Terminator 1 and 2.
Instead of that, Skynet was made by the NSA and the resistance got its ass rekt.

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