Boston Dynamics' Parkour Atlas robot doing gymnastics. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 25, 2019, 03:40:04 am
content: Parkour Atlas doing gymnastics:

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2019, 06:40:01 pm
content: I give it five more years before we see Robocop but with real robots. We just need the AI to catch up a bit and we're done.

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2019, 07:09:52 pm
content: Sure is a neat demonstration of their stability and control, but I can't think of single reason for a robot to do a handstand or somersault. Definitely time for work on the intelligence side.

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2019, 11:59:09 pm
content: Quote from: German_EE on September 26, 2019, 06:40:01 pmTheir robot's balance with some tactical weapon aiming control combined with human remote control using an immersive interface can make some military use today, if they can get improved battery technology to last longer and silence the motors.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 27, 2019, 01:22:14 am
content: Quote from: CatalinaWOW on September 26, 2019, 07:09:52 pmThe reason is exactly stated in the opening of your statement. Having such capabilities will become important when faced with the challenges that will be encountered in our natural world.AI, as I see it, is more important in the choice of actions to be taken where simple rules - such as stability - are not as straightforward.

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2019, 03:51:18 am
content: Quote from: Brumby on September 27, 2019, 01:22:14 amI agree about the opening part of the statement. But hand stands are a very, very fringe part of the real world. I have successfully made it through several decades of life with the only application for a handstand being in a high school gym class. I am sure the vast majority of those on this forum find handstands similarly relevant to their lives. A somersault is a useful maneuver for entertainment or as recovery from a fall (at least for humans). Robots probably are a long ways from needing entertainment, and may have very different optimal responses to accidents. Just as Atlas' method for resuming a standing position after a fall only vaguely resembles common human methods.Boston Dynamics has always done well on real world examples from their earliest four legged devices on snow and ice up through Atlas navigating piles of broken concrete blocks. They have the three sigma cases of maneuvering around the world well in hand. The problem remains how to make their devices autonomously do useful things. Their demo of stacking (carefully bar coded) boxes on shelves was a good but very limited example. I don't know if that is the limit of their success, or if it is only the limit of what they are able and willing to publicly reveal.

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2020, 10:27:12 am
content: Dancing , someone had too much timehttps://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2020, 11:00:19 am
content: Large twigs rammed in mechanisms