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How real is that Atlas robot video (more staged than real)?

1 points by mardiyah 6y ago

mardiyah 6y ago
Exactly, it's completely misleading "They are astonishing pieces of engineering, capable of feats of locomotion and dexterity that took evolution millions of years to perfect. But they aren’t quite as capable as they seem. For all their physical prowess, the intelligence of these mechanical creatures is sorely limited. They can walk with an unnervingly animalistic gait and now they can open doors, but what they can’t do is, well, pretty much everything else" https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132150-200-the-truth-behind-boston-dynamics-viral-robot-videos/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132150-200-the-trut... and https://www.skynettoday.com/briefs/boston-dynamics https://www.skynettoday.com/briefs/boston-dynamics "Believing that these videos represent robotics with advanced autonomous capability is problematic, since that is far from the truth. There are substantial differences between a robot that autonomously performs these actions versus one that is preprogrammed to do so with the help of external sensors and computation, and the lack of transparency makes it unclear what Atlas and friends are capable of. Though the details are not clear, it appears to be the case that Boston Dynamics’ technology does not involve learning or advanced cognition and is based on human-defined methods for robotic control: Boston Dynamics are getting a lot of press these days, but perhaps their most impressive accomplishment is that they do it all without any deep learning" Here's the math behind Atlas, the backflipping humanoid.https://t.co/5l7VZ0MBzs https://t.co/5l7VZ0MBzs … … pic.twitter.com/8IOTWuDqxF — James Ough
toomuchtodo 6y ago
(2016)
geoah 6y ago
The “more staged than real” has been added by the op and doesn’t actually seem to match the journalist’s opinion who mainly badmouths other robots and concludes “Atlas is a big advance, and what we can see of it here looks far better than most previous efforts.”

1 points by mardiyah 6y ago

Exactly, it's completely misleading "They are astonishing pieces of engineering, capable of feats of locomotion and dexterity that took evolution millions of years to perfect. But they aren’t quite as capable as they seem. For all their physical prowess, the intelligence of these mechanical creatures is sorely limited. They can walk with an unnervingly animalistic gait and now they can open doors, but what they can’t do is, well, pretty much everything else" https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132150-200-the-truth-behind-boston-dynamics-viral-robot-videos/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132150-200-the-trut... and https://www.skynettoday.com/briefs/boston-dynamics https://www.skynettoday.com/briefs/boston-dynamics "Believing that these videos represent robotics with advanced autonomous capability is problematic, since that is far from the truth. There are substantial differences between a robot that autonomously performs these actions versus one that is preprogrammed to do so with the help of external sensors and computation, and the lack of transparency makes it unclear what Atlas and friends are capable of. Though the details are not clear, it appears to be the case that Boston Dynamics’ technology does not involve learning or advanced cognition and is based on human-defined methods for robotic control: Boston Dynamics are getting a lot of press these days, but perhaps their most impressive accomplishment is that they do it all without any deep learning" Here's the math behind Atlas, the backflipping humanoid.https://t.co/5l7VZ0MBzs https://t.co/5l7VZ0MBzs … … pic.twitter.com/8IOTWuDqxF — James Ough

toomuchtodo 6y ago

(2016)

geoah 6y ago

The “more staged than real” has been added by the op and doesn’t actually seem to match the journalist’s opinion who mainly badmouths other robots and concludes “Atlas is a big advance, and what we can see of it here looks far better than most previous efforts.”