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Jonatan Hildén

Rodney Brooks on the problem(s) with humanoid robots. So yeah sure Tesla is going to solve this, in a year? OR then deliver robots that you need to stay very well clear of when they are walking around…

You look at this Boston Dynamics video differently after reading the quote.
While impressive, Atlas is still essentially bruteforcing bipedal walking.

youtu.be/I44_zbEwz_w?si=U87oPq

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rodneybrooks.com/predictions-s

Like all modern humanoid robots Cardea did not walk in a way that used passive dynamics to store energy, and basically modulate the behavior of a passive mechanism that had only low energy input, which is how all animals walk. So, like all modern mobile humanoid robots (and legged robots in general) when things were going awry its control algorithms tried to recover by pumping in large amounts of energy very quickly and sometimes that didn’t quite work and the energy needed to go somewhere. Cardea could be a little dangerous in those circumstances, if it fell on you having just increased its kinetic energy. Even the spring based deployment system for its stick-like legs that were engaged when it realized it was going to fall could be dangerous. This is still a problem with all modern humanoid robots. That is why the tele-operated humanoids that were in the Tesla movie lot theater show a couple of months ago operated in two modes. When they all walked out the human guests were kept away from them. Once they stopped walking and were operating in a very different mode people were allowed to approach them, and then get fooled into thinking they were talking to an AI powered robot when they were really talking to a remote human operator. But the robot was no longer moving its feet, and no longer a source of physical danger as a result.
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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

#ElonMusk is out here predicting that #Tesla's vaporware Optimus robot will be "the biggest product of any kind of all time." 10 times bigger than any other product ever made by any other company.

Last I checked the Optimus demo a few months ago was so obviously staged/faked that the stock crashed like 10% immediately.

This is what happens when each floor of the pyramid needs to be larger than the last one...

#TeslaTakedown#TSLA#TSLAQ
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Christian Henkel

🔄 Oh wow. After seeing this, I feel even more validated in my choice of PhD topic! 🤣
This video perfectly illustrates a common failure in multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF): local optimization without global coordination. These robots (likely in a warehouse) are stuck in a deadlock, each trying to avoid the other, but their decentralized decision-making leaves them trapped in a loop.
#MultiAgentSystems #FleetManagement #MAPF #Robotics
Video Credit: reddit/RoyalChris

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Robot Talk

What would you love to know about evolving #robot brains and bodies? 🤖

Later this season, I'll be chatting to Prof. Emma Hart from Edinburgh Napier University about algorithms that 'evolve' better robot designs and control systems.

Send me your questions for Emma in the comments below or on the Robot Talk website: robottalk.org/ask-a-question/

A photo of Emma wearing a blue blouse and a silver necklace.
#Robots#Robotics#Evolution
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