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They test this across the street from my office. Pretty crazy when you actually see it sprint the length of a football field, turn around and run the length aga
by chadwickthebold 13y ago
They test this across the street from my office. Pretty crazy when you actually see it sprint the length of a football field, turn around and run the length again. Then again, it's also pretty funny when it faceplants and one of the engineers runs over with a fire extinguisher to make sure it doesn't explode.
- krapp 13y agoI saw a video of ASIMO falling on some stairs once. As far as we've come with this it seems there's still a lot of engineering left to work out with anything not rolling on wheels.
- turing 13y agoTo be fair, ASIMO is not even in the same league as ATLAS or any of Boston Dynamics' other projects. I've always gotten the feeling that ASIMO is more of a press play by Honda.
- turing 13y agoWow. And I thought it was cool seeing self-driving cars around Google's campus. Boston Dynamics must be one interesting place to work.
- jffry 13y agoOne time, on my way to lunch at 200 Fifth Ave, I stopped at the top of the hill by their parking lot and chuckled as their LS3 robot tried and failed to stand up. Also, one of them seems to be working on a pulse jet engine as a side project. I heard the world's loudest vuvuzela, went over to check it out, and saw a guy with a rocket engine strapped down to a concrete divider looking at a laptop.
- chadwickthebold 13y agoYeah, for two months I thought wildcat was just a really, really loud weed-wacker that was used every single day.