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"...but full autonomy is far away. Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston Dynamics, said as much in an interview with IEEE Spectrum in February, when he acknowledg
by s_kilk 11y ago
"...but full autonomy is far away. Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston Dynamics, said as much in an interview with IEEE Spectrum in February, when he acknowledged that in the videos, a human steered the robot via radio during its outside strolls."
This seems kinda sketchy to me. It's possible we'll fall into a Robotics Winter, similar to the AI Winter due to these over-inflated claims of advancement.
- zurn 11y agoI looked up the quote: "Raibert said that for the outdoor scenes, a human provides general steering via radio while the robot uses its stereo and LIDAR sensors to adjust to terrain variations. ATLAS also does its own balance and motion control. " This kind of navigation level steering is an easy problem compared to stable walking over rough terrain and recovery from kicks and shoves.
- s_kilk 11y agoMaybe, but the videos (and surrounding media) were presented in a way which implied the robot was autonomous, finding it's own path through the terrain. It may not be intentionally misleading, but still misleading.
- ktRolster 11y agoCompare it to that Watson/Carrie Fischer commercial, where Watson is presented as being able to carry on a conversation. It can't really do that, but that's also misleading.