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Come on, you know he meant the stuff that measures "Faster, Higher, Stronger" like running and jumping and throwing. The team sports and sports in which you ge
by wolf550e 10y ago
Come on, you know he meant the stuff that measures "Faster, Higher, Stronger" like running and jumping and throwing.
The team sports and sports in which you get points for aesthetics are harder for robots, but I think they can do bobsleigh if not soccer.
- smallnamespace 10y agoAnd exactly which sports are the 'faster, higher, stronger' ones? Let me list some individual, no artistic points sports where I think building a robot that can beat a top human would be highly challenging: - Pole vault - Hurdles - Wrestling - Cycling - build a robot than can actually balance on bike and ride it properly - Tennis - Surfing Not to mention the biggest challenge, which is that every single one of these sports would require a special robot, while humans are true generalists. We are literally decades away from being able to build generalist robots that can outpace humans in the physical world over a range of tasks. Kinematics, balance, and locomotion are all hard problems in robotics, and it doesn't help for us to trivialize them.
- tptacek 10y agoYou're right, but you're making my argument for me. Nobody is interested in seeing a motorcycle beat a bicyclist, or a horse outrun an Olympic sprinter; they're interested in seeing what a human being can do, unaided, pushed to the limits of what a human can do. We already know that we can outperform an unassisted human using technology.