Boston Dynamics Do You Love Me?

[harddriver]

So cute............if you think they haven't weaponized these yet you're dreaming.

 

[slyym]

Imagine these robots in 50 years! Scary!!!

 

[Monkey Man]

Worse still, in 50 years they may have to imagine us after having wiped us out 'cause of our redundancy.

 

[harddriver]

Dr. EVIL I presume...............................................................................

 

[sytharnia1560]

they have admitted that these videos have been "doctored" to represent what the robots "can do" but aren't doing yet. to quote "walking robots fall down a lot" ... there are people off screen with remote controls guiding them.....it doubt it will take very long though before these videos are legit what is happening

 

[Monkey Man]

Would've been appropriate for the LSM to make that clear, mate.

Here in Oz at least, it was a "wow" moment with zero caveats offered.

 

[narad]

they have admitted that these videos have been "doctored" to represent what the robots "can do" but aren't doing yet. to quote "walking robots fall down a lot" ... there are people off screen with remote controls guiding them.....it doubt it will take very long though before these videos are legit what is happening

I think this is inaccurate. The robots can do all the movements here (and are), and there's no human remote control. I mean, could you imagine? Hard enough to control a drone to simply move in 3D space, let alone somehow specify these movements like a puppeteer. The moves are all a pre-programmed routine, but I don't think that detracts from the video at all. It is important to make clear that Boston Dynamics is not an AI/machine learning company -- these actions are not learned but specified in simulation.

 

[sytharnia1560]

I think this is inaccurate. The robots can do all the movements here (and are), and there's no human remote control. I mean, could you imagine? Hard enough to control a drone to simply move in 3D space, let alone somehow specify these movements like a puppeteer. The moves are all a pre-programmed routine, but I don't think that detracts from the video at all. It is important to make clear that Boston Dynamics is not an AI/machine learning company -- these actions are not learned but specified in simulation.

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-boston-dynamics-scary-robot-videos.html

 

[narad]

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-boston-dynamics-scary-robot-videos.html

That article is from 2018, and also written in a misleading way. Of course they leave out the "bloopers". I have to remember that in 2018 it was impressive just to get a bipedal one to jump over an obstacle, etc.

But you have to have things pretty ironed out to get a good take of multiple robots doing a long choreographed sequence with just a day or two for the entire shoot. I think in your earlier comment you made it sound like @Monkey Man shouldn't be wowed here because it's a doctored video. That's not true -- it's not doctored, it's not something they hope the robots can do in the future -- those robot are actually doing that dance.

 

[Monkey Man]

All-the-more-impressive then, mate.

Thank you for the claritittification.

 

[sytharnia1560]

I think in your earlier comment you made it sound like @Monkey Man shouldn't be wowed here because it's a doctored video.

weird, at no point did I quote or reference Monkey Man or anything he said

 

[narad]

weird, at no point did I quote or reference Monkey Man or anything he said

It's getting pedantic now but:
- you post making it sound like this current video was fake/doctored,
- other people (MonkeyMan) comment that they had been wowed when they believed the video was real, until you said otherwise,
- video actually is real, and I would like to try to stop the misinformation (your posts) from spreading.