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General => Random => Topic started by: Admin on March 01, 2016, 12:12:01 PM
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Whewww!
Boston Dynamics builds advanced robots with remarkable behavior: mobility, agility, dexterity and speed. We use sensor-based controls and computation to unlock the capabilities of complex mechanisms. Our world-class development teams take projects from initial concept to proof-of-principle prototyping to build-test-build engineering, to field testing and low-rate production.
Organizations worldwide, from DARPA, the US Army, Navy and Marine Corps to Sony Corporation turn to Boston Dynamics for advice and for help creating the most advanced robots on Earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8YjvHYbZ9w
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Freaky.
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But, can they cross-step...
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and for my next trick.......how about that hockey stick up yer ass.It's only inevitable
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DARPA must be peeing thin their Khaki fatigues.
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“The Robot Revolution Could Wipe Out 5.1 Million Jobs by 2020”
As exciting as advancing technology is, one can’t help but feel increased anxiety over the rise of the robot. We have accepted the theory that new technology will, given time, stimulate job growth and improve quality of life. Data from the past 50 years challenges this assumption. The political debate over income inequality and stagnant employment highlight the impact but fail to address the underlying quandary.
Any meaningful solution to income inequality and rising long term unemployment (and the associated increases in drug use and suicide rates in the demographic most severely impacted) will need to include meaningful answers to this very challenging scenario.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/not-even-hillary-bernie-donald-121500565.html
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Humans Need Not Apply:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
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Humans Need Not Apply:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
That is really well done. What do all the people do when we have replaced all the people work? How does that lack of purpose play on the mind, on societies? How long the masters? VR, AI, Computing, Biotech, robotics, all accelerating. The next decade is going to be fascinating. That philosophy degree may finally pay off...unless bot ethicists take over that work as well.
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Scary stuff but it is what it is. One of things that gives me piece of mind and the ability to sleep at night is that I never had kids and with that I don't need to worry about their future.
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Brings back that song, "We'll make great pets".
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The simple fact is, further despair is imminent and there is nada we can do about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f517THBZNgA
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Makes you wonder if intelligence is a dead end for a species.
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Full TZ episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjdHXUxVamw
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And Karl Marx nods knowingly from the great beyond.
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And Karl Marx nods knowingly from the great beyond.
So does Louis Marx.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVDpuTqD1Nc
(http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/4554/6236863_1.jpg?v=8C8D82D67F08AA0)
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Amazing how far these guys have come in such a short time. This one below was 2 years ago. Although, the 1 footed 20 lb test is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD6Okylclb8
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Incredible. Exciting. Unsettling.
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Incredible. Exciting. Unsettling.
Disruptive has become the buzzword for new ideas that shake a particular market, and the word is used as a positive. But this stuff is in a different category of disruptive and I am certain that no one truly understands the implications.
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Karl Marx was a dick. Based his ideas of government and economics on Malthus, which is a fundamental flaw.
Robotics is actually a minor thing. For the forseeable future it's just a more flexible way to do manufacturing. Any and all manufacturing has been machine-based since the 1900's. If you want to nibble at your nails, contemplate artificial intelligence, and realize that a graph of the rate of change from basic awareness to super intelligence will be a hockey stick curve. When our machines are infinitely smarter than us, what happens? Human intelligence has major constraints--neuron communication speed (120 meters per second), storage, processing speed, constraint on machine intelligence is the speed of light.
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Robotics + continuing advances in AI are leading to a future of human labor obsolescence. Not certain that we have the intellect / will to embrace either the challenges or the opportunities.
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Wow, they have come a long way! Gawd help us all that governments will be using these things - weaponized.
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SpotMini - at least they have a sense of humor :)
Not in the realm of the 'uncanny valley', but I still I find the movement a bit unsettling or almost creepy. I don't think I want to see one covered with fur.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng
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A version of spotmini, dressed up to be cute, will probably be a useful home robot. Fairly expensive--stuff like this doesn't price scale like smartphones, but will scale something like DVRs did--start very expensive, then get pretty cheap right about the time they become obsolete because the overmind has assimilated all the consumers.
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...and milk Bessie when you're done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Os5Okf3OQ
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Can it dunk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c
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The tractor thing is so inevitable I'm a little surprised it's not further along. Tesla's new semi truck is probably about level 3.5 autonomous, though they haven't said so directly.
Learning Fusion 360 has been a revelation into how machines will design machines. The Boston Dynamics robot is amazing, but they're going to get a lot weirder looking quickly with shape optimization for additive manufacturing and generative design. The further I go into the technology, the weirder it gets.
Here's a chair as a human might design it, then optimized by generative design. The last picture is optimized for minimal materials and highest strength. You can pick different materials to test from a drop down menu and then observe the effects of loads from any direction, in any combination.
(https://img.newatlas.com/generative-design-11.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=max&h=670&q=60&w=1000&s=4218408cdd851a05d672cc1248e9bb72)
Here's a load-bearing engine block:
(https://img.newatlas.com/generative-design-9.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=max&h=670&q=60&w=1000&s=c430350cd1e19dac67dc86a9cc1193cd)
And a lever:
(https://img.newatlas.com/generative-design-8.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=max&h=670&q=60&w=1000&s=cb5ccbf1f69d0881802e8757b6d615e3)
And ten minutes on how it works. If you look at this and don't see self-designing machines you need an imagination reboot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlpeh_MkyNU
I see the future, and it looks a lot like H. R. Giger designed it.
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Festo is doing some pretty amazing stuff, most with an element of generative design.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-JvyzOddTM
Coming soon, fully armed, to a battlefield near you.
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OK...now I want a mylar Manta Ray.
Very cool....
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The tractor thing is so inevitable I'm a little surprised it's not further along. Tesla's new semi truck is probably about level 3.5 autonomous, though they haven't said so directly.
This driverless 15 person shuttle is going live this fall in Ann Arbor.
(http://image.mlive.com/home/mlive-media/width620/img/ann-arbor_photos/photo/21679970-mmmain.jpg)
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/06/mcity_will_offer_driverless_sh.html
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I am ready to be onboarded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRj34o4hN4I
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I need ankles that flexible
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Oh good lord... this gives me hope that I will be able to do back flips... in an exo suit...
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Looks like Spot is ready for market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBt2aTjCNmI
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We're gonna need a bigger place...
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If he is available we could use a little warehouse help :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBBaNYex3E
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Just needs a skateboard.
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We're all dead...
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Well, there you have it.
Spot is an agile mobile robot that you can customize for a wide range of applications. The base platform provides rough-terrain mobility, 360 degree obstacle avoidance, and various levels of navigation, remote control and autonomy. You can customize Spot by adding specialized sensors, software and other payloads. Early customers are already testing Spot to monitor construction sites, provide remote inspection at gas, oil and power installations, and in public safety. Spot is in mass production and currently shipping to select early adopters. Find out more about using Spot in your application by visiting us at https://www.BostonDynamics.com/Spot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkCQXHEgjA
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I guess you could ride one like a horse?
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...or you could program him to check the temperature and humidity in your home.
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You realize you just applied a specific gender to a machine? It's going to be a confusing world for these A.I. machines ::)
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Whoah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk
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Whoah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk
More From Boston Dynamic
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw
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And some day these robots will have their own cell phones, social media accounts, and drive Tesla's. At least they'll have something to do at the charging stations:)
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I'm stoked to be 0-200-2 (2 draws!) vs Stockfish 13 on my phone for the pandemic given no human beats any of the top chess programs anymore (Deep Blue was a long time ago). What was Crazy Crikey was Alpha Zero in 2017. AlphaZero was AI that Google just showed chess rules to than had it play against itself for all of 9 hrs. Than < 1/2 day old AlphaZero played StockFish (with StockFish's hundreds of years of accumulated humanities best chess theory database and multiple computer chess world championships). Result was 28 wins, 0 losses, and 72 draws in favor of the newborn AI. AlphaZero did not care much about possessions, it would sacrifice material (pawns, knights, ...) all opening long to provide for movement. Stockfish would do what people sometimes do, use stronger pieces to protect weaker pieces which against AI anyway seemed to tie up the stronger pieces.
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On the immediately practical side. How many warehouse positions does this entirely replace? How many pieces of redundant equipment? On the delivery side, these take up one pallet's worth of space in a truck and can self load-scan-unload all day and night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUuWWnfRsk