Ho. Le. Crap! Watch the vid
https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/16/boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-is-a-parkour-master/
Amazing. Terminator images were flashing through my mind. Luckily, I don't think that thing will fit through my front door.
Eeew.
Dangit! I had a 2 foot tall box that I could stand on during the robot apocalypse all ready got but I guess it is back to the drawing board.
Rednecks will be safe in their homes. The porch will collapse when that thing jumps on it.
Quote from: Brad on November 17, 2017, 02:59:37 PM
Rednecks will be safe in their homes. The porch will collapse when that thing jumps on it.
That's just the alpha 7 version. Beta versions will come with jetpacks to handle such things.
For all you people wishing battery technology would improve, just remember that crappy batteries are the only thing keeping this thing from escaping from the lab and running your down
Quote"It's nothing," tweeted Musk. "In a few years, this robot will move so fast that you will need light to see it ... Sweet Dreams ..."
He followed up the response using this comment:
''We need to regulate AI/robotics as we do with food, drugs, planes and cars, public risks require public control, the release of the FAA will not fly safer, they are for a good reason. "
Musk has already warned of a threat of possible robots that would develop beyond the possibilities of humanity to control them. His views are shared by visionaries like Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates.
http://www.embernewsline.com/2017/11/elon-musk-being-bitcoin-inventor-warns.html
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Wait for it....
When the robots have had enough of us
https://i.imgur.com/OtQh00J.gifv
>>When the robots have had enough of us
Here is the full video that came from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjCWfuvYxQ
The latest from Boston Dynamics
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/d8uqzh/latest_from_boston_dynamics/
Atlas: Do You Love Me? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw
I wonder when they will be cheap enough to play Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.
But what I really wonder is how specific/low-level the programming is. Like getting them to stand on one foot and high kick/step with the other. Is that, say, a standard library plus three instructions, or 10,000 lines of code? Or do they just show them some American Bandstand archival footage and their onboard AI learns the steps?
> learns
That would be cool.
I'd be very impressed if the AI could learn to play drums to that song like Dave Clark from the Dave Clark Five just by watching.
> onboard AI learns the steps?
Probably. Interesting question. I found these articles with a link to the code used:
Making a robot learn how to move — Introhttps://towardsdatascience.com/making-a-robot-learn-of-to-move-intro-2bcf3c3330df
QuoteThe dynamical model of a robot, i.e. the mathematical model describing how inputs affect the movement of each joints, can be very complex, especially when dealing with robots with many Degrees of Freedom (DOFs). Links are often dynamically coupled: the movement, velocity and acceleration of a link affects the other in complex ways. There are inertia effects, centrifugal, Coriolis and gravitational effects, non-linear frictions and so on. All of these can be hard to model mathematically. So, the question is: can the robot learn how to move? In the next series of posts, I will show different approaches, techniques and algorithms that I've developed along with a colleague of mine. You can find all the code developed for this project in this GitHub repository.
Making a robot learn how to move, part 1 — Evolutionary algorithmshttps://towardsdatascience.com/making-a-robot-learn-how-to-move-part-1-evolutionary-algorithms-340f239c9cd2
>> Evolutionary algorithms
Ahh.... That makes sense. My AI comment was a joke (though I think it will come), but it also boggled my mind how one would write the code for that. Looking at his other posts (lots about neural computing and deep learning), it looks like it's partway in between. It's not twentieth-century coding a standard robot movement library in C and then adding in dance classes (so to speak), but it's not... 2050s AI. It's sort of in between. A lot of programming + a bit of deep learning = robot that can stand on one foot and high kick
BTW...
Hyundai takes control of Boston Dynamics in $1.1B deal - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/11/22167835/hyundai-boston-dynamics-aquisition-consumer-robotics
>AI
Somewhere, I've read that some are pursuing Motion Capture (tracking dots on suits) and AI to 'teach' robots how to perform movements.
>Hyundai
It will be interesting to see how that ends up.
>> Evolutionary algorithms
I think you are probably right Ergo. I'm sure there are lots of sensors in those bots that assess their placements and the physics exerted on them when they do their movements and on the fly adjustments need to be made in real time.
That's an amazing video.
Atlas: 2013 vs 2021
https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/qo1hrf/i_wonder_what_atlas_will_be_like_in_coming_10/
For now, we're safe, because Atlas can't go very long at all on a charge. That presents us with a quandary.
If battery tech does not improve, we face planetary disruption and dislocation from climate change.
If battery tech does improve, we face planetary disruption and dislocation from the robot apocalypse.
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