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Watching this robot land weird and shoot hydraulic fluid out of its knees makes me physically uncomfortable, but I gotta say it’s pretty neat how similar the “panic motions” to regain its balance are to human attempts to regain balance.
Watching this robot land weird and shoot hydraulic fluid out of its knees makes me physically uncomfortable
It’s more uncomfortable seeing the same thing happen with a human but maybe that’s just me.
Certainly, but with its “lifelike” movement I couldn’t help but have a visceral response to seeing it’s knee blow out. Not something I anticipated watching a fancy hunk of metal hop around.
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https://youtu.be/dKjCWfuvYxQ related video
https://spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynamics-atlas-retires
Now, if you’re wondering why Boston Dynamics is saying “it’s time for our **hydraulic **Atlas robot to kick back and relax,” rather than just “our **Atlas **robot,” and if you’re also wondering why the video description ends with “take a look back at everything we’ve accomplished with the Atlas platform “to date,” well, I can’t help you. Some people might attempt to draw some inferences and conclusions from that very specific and deliberate language, but I would certainly not be one of them, because I’m well known for never speculating about anything.
So they have a non-hydraulic driven Atlas? I wanna see that shit.
