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And 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 ca
by smallnamespace 10y ago
And 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.