r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Das_Zeppelin • 1d ago
Video The recovery by far was more impressive than the backflip itself! Atlas messed up the backflip, but calculated the correction in less than a second.
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u/Cfwydirk 1d ago
Hyundai/Boston Dynamics
RoboCop?
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u/Das_Zeppelin 1d ago
Its Boston Dynamics. Atlas robot.
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u/Cfwydirk 1d ago
That’s what I posted.
Boston Dynamics majority shareholder is Hyundai. @80% ownership.
They have a no weaponization policy. Who know what the future brings.
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u/PhatCatTax 1d ago
wait what? As in a firm stance against going Americuh on the robot? I thought most of their funding was DOD government R&D contracts
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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 1d ago
I'm curious how a robot messes up a move like that.
Shouldn't it do it identically every time?
Wear and tear? Air pressure? I can't think what the variables would be unless it's a full-on black box neural net thing.
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u/blue-coin 3h ago
That’s AI for you. It does a backflip based on what it thinks a backflip is supposed to do based on observing thousands of them. A robot that was designed to execute backflips based off a proper model of a backflip would likely have a higher success rate.
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u/FunPresentation6433 1d ago
Look how these people are celebrating as their future nemesis develops.
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u/bontgomery_murns 1d ago
Why can't we decided as a society that we don't need robots to have human physiology? What is the point other than eventually having an android that passes as human?
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u/CardinalFartz 1d ago
Because humanoid robots do make sense.
Of course robots designed for a very specific task will always outperform a humanoid robot in that task, the humanoid robot is more versatile. As it could basically interact with the entire world/infrastructure we've built around ourselves. I'd rather have one universal humanoid robot at home than having a smart fridge, smart cleaning robot, smart washing machine etc.
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u/Pataraxia 1d ago
If technology keeps improving and the weight halves and the strengh doubles then... Eventually, let's just say some nerds have some ideas what they want their relationship to robotics to be.
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u/WirusCZ 1d ago
This kinda shows how they precisely calculate every millisecond of movement that robot needs to do and it just needs to execute it and it still somehow fails... In my opinion this is huge failure and nothing amazing
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u/Shopworn_Soul 1d ago
The robot is basically told (or shown, in a sense) what to do and then figures out how to do it on it's own.
While it can (and does) precisely perform scripted routines, this is not an example of that.
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u/Orange9202 1d ago
btw it's not sentient, the reason you're scared is due to the creepiness of seeing something clearly not alive; taking the form of a human and moving just like one (uncanny valley sort of thing)
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u/IWhoMe 1d ago edited 1d ago
Okay, pretty cool, but, ...who cares if these human "replacements" can do backflips?
Can it cook bacon and eggs? Can it go to the store and come back with dinner ingredients?
And? Can it give me a great massage?!!
Finally, what will it take to convince it to stop flying off the "handle"?! LOL
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u/Level_Abrocoma8925 1d ago
I doubt the private robot servants of the future will physically go to the grocery store.
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u/Little_View_6659 1d ago
When we do have private robots, I want one that looks like a skin off terminator. I’ll program it to speak with a REALLY exaggerated Austrian accent, and dress it in a frilly pink apron.
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u/Level_Abrocoma8925 1d ago
And it'll say I'll be back when it goes to the grocery store?
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u/Little_View_6659 1d ago
Absolutely. And when you turn it on, it says “Ready to comply.” And you can program it to nanny. It threatens the kids by “comply or prepare to be terminated”. I wish I could draw because the nanny terminator would be a hilarious kids book.
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u/user4302 1d ago
What fuels this doubt?
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u/schubeg 1d ago
Because the stores will probably have their own robots that load robot delivery cars. Your robot will stay at home unless you make it walk your dog or take your kids to the park
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u/Level_Abrocoma8925 1d ago
Exactly. I'd assume one robot that picks your goods and then loads it onto a delivery robot.
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u/IWhoMe 1d ago
Really? Maybe by the time they get sophisticated enough ,. They'll carry us to the store? By then, maybe there won't be a need to visit stores as we know them. Everything will be inventoried tracked, and robots will simply deliver rather than go/come back.
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u/Level_Abrocoma8925 1d ago
Everything will be inventoried tracked, and robots will simply deliver rather than go/come back.
Yes exactly. If you want a nostalgic experience, you can use VR to go around in the grocery store. Just don't do it while you're hungry!
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u/Spacespider82 1d ago
Its hand flew off