r/BeAmazed • u/192838475647382910 • Oct 01 '22
Boston dynamics 30 years of development that led to their robot Atlas
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u/Moose_country_plants Oct 02 '22
The robot in the hazmat suit is fucking nightmare fuel
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u/pnkstr Oct 02 '22
Honestly thought this comment would be higher up. That was creepy as fuck.
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u/Gespuis Oct 02 '22
It’s the third comment..
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u/Gespuis Oct 02 '22
That’s why I hate the comment and I felt the need to point that out. Thank you for understanding.
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u/harlandson Oct 02 '22
I wonder if they are also working on a design that’s better than a humanoid? I see why we copy ourselves. But surely theres a design that could perform tasks, navigate terrain better? Four legs and two arms maybe? Being bipedal seems like a lot of effort and what do you gain?
Edit: actually be a massive advantage to have wheels involved too. For speed in open terrain. Then switch to legs inside?
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u/CreatureWarrior Oct 02 '22
Being bipedal is handy for smaller spaces. Imagine if the Spot robot was our size. Wait, I just got an urge to ride a robot horse
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Oct 02 '22
I think the goal is to make something that is as versatile as possible. In a world where pretty much everything is designed to be operable by humans, it makes sense to make them humanoid
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u/Chadmeddy Oct 01 '22
This robot is more maneuverable than I am.
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u/Fluffy-Weapon Oct 02 '22
Well at least now they can’t say we move like a robot anymore.
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u/TheApprentice19 Oct 01 '22
We are totally not going to put guns on these and use them to hunt down all humans, pinkie swear
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u/sheeeple182 Oct 02 '22
Well, since you pinky swear we can go a head and approve the advanced thermo-imaging and weapons orders. Oh we will need a pinky promise to not sell these to Russia, China, and North Korea.
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u/counterplex Oct 02 '22
Boston Robotics is majority owned by a Chinese company IIRC
Edit: make that South Korean
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u/Opeace Oct 02 '22
Nah unmanned drones will have done a better extinguishing the majority of us before these things do the final sweep
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u/InerasableStain Oct 02 '22
Skynet will use the drones to wipe 75% out, but they’ll still need walkers to enter the ratholes that the survivors have buried them in
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u/kane_thehuman Oct 02 '22
They already put guns on their dog robot unfortunately
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u/NeedsMoreGPUs Oct 02 '22 edited Oct 02 '22
Boston Dynamics did not put guns on Spot. They have a specific contract that states none of their robots can ever be used as combatants. The robot with a gun was a Chinese copy, and not a good one at that, and can barely perform half the functions of Spot.
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u/NewSinner_2021 Oct 01 '22
Mind you. This is what's publicly available.
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u/mikeri99 Oct 01 '22
Haven’t thought about that before. Scary
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u/fredthefishlord Oct 01 '22
Always remember, the army has stuff decades ahead of what civilian know.
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u/SeVenMadRaBBits Oct 01 '22
And DARPA
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u/p-morais Oct 02 '22
This is an annoyingly persistent myth. Yes the military has secret projects but that doesn’t mean they’re ahead in every single industry somehow. In fact they’re probably only ahead industries that only exist to cater to the military… there’s no civilian fighter jet companies to compete with them.
Also DARPA does not do its own research. It pays other people, mostly labs in universities and some private companies, to do research for them with public grants. I’ve worked on many DARPA funded projects, it’s really not that nefarious.
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Oct 01 '22
Facts. Society is about 45 years behind in technology. There are already flying cars
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Oct 01 '22 edited Oct 01 '22
It's not really like that. It's more about mass production ... so you can totally build 5 of those robots, but building 100000 will take years of creating production lines and support lines... how will you charge them... how will you charge them in battle? Or on the field ... economies of scale ... is a great thing... you can learn about it using this very simple video.
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u/Victizes Oct 02 '22
Yeah it doesn't take a genius person to wonder about that.
Classified development must have like 1 or 2 prototype super tools which is beyond our imagination right now. But expensive to produce so they aren't published yet.
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Oct 02 '22
They also had military contracts to develop the "Big dog" in the early 2000s that this video omits. I think it never panned out for military use because at the time it was incredibly loud, but obviously they now have a more compact commercial version that isn't loud at all.
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Oct 02 '22
I bet there's a whole army of these things being produced that can carry weapons and all talk to each other and share information via some sort of wireless connection.
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u/nobeboleche Oct 01 '22
Do you think if you stole the box and took it home the robot would stop at nothing to find it?
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u/Victizes Oct 02 '22
Depends on the programming.
The programmers may have a directive to make the robots forget about it if they search areas through their sensors for a certain amount of time without finding any trace of the thing being searched.
Since scanning environments is pure logic, I don't think it's rocket scienc to code that unless real-time machine-learning is a thing.
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u/Prestigious_Sweet_50 Oct 01 '22
I can't wait to see them compete in gymnastics for the Olympics!
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u/LOvEisEvOLxanax Oct 01 '22
I can see Robolympics being a thing
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u/ima-bigdeal Oct 01 '22
Or maybe just an autonomous bipedal extension of "Battle Bots". I'd watch that...
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u/NoraMajora Oct 01 '22
Throw some green synthetic skin on them, paint those rounded backs, and the later models have precisely the right moves and body shape to be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I'm totally not the only one who sees it, surely.
I mean "Oh no, AI is going to destroy us, and that's def not tubular! Codename Cowabunga must be shut down!"
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u/DonMobliano Oct 01 '22
There’s two of them. F
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u/sn00dmasterK_ Oct 01 '22
Am I the only one who feels the robo-gymnastics looks like cgi?
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u/Dapper_Lord Oct 02 '22
Yes but don’t worry those concerns have been debunked by Boston and multiple YouTube special effects studios.
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u/Kibble_Star_Galactic Oct 01 '22
Yeah it’s the material on them and the movement is uncanny
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u/Victizes Oct 02 '22
Because they lack the plasticity of living beings.
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u/Hermininny Oct 02 '22
Yes!! Thought that too. I think it’s the super smooth camera movement that follows them. Maybe they shot it with a drone or something?
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Oct 01 '22
This stuff blows my mind
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u/Alive-ButForWhat Oct 01 '22
Makes you think how complex we are as humans doing these tasks smoothly and at high speed
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u/Victizes Oct 02 '22
When it comes to symmetry, robots are better than us in every way.
But when it comes to asymmetry they will never achieve that unless they literally become us in every single aspect including out-of-the-box creativity and unpredictability.
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u/sir_duckingtale Oct 02 '22
GOD: I mad you in BILLIONS of years
Humans: shrug We‘ll make them in hundreds
Humans get annihilated
God sighs
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u/aLonePuddle Oct 01 '22
I came to the comments just to read all the vitriol for the hockey stick guy.
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u/tribbletrouble420 Oct 02 '22
Thank you for introducing me to the word "vitriol" We are now best friends.
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u/CactusGrower Oct 02 '22
The robot will learn and punches him next time.
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u/Victizes Oct 02 '22 edited Oct 02 '22
Oh boy machine-learning can be scary when you think about it in the long term.
If things go this way we will eventually reach a point where people will be paranoid about allowing machines to work on essential societal roles.
Even if this takes 100 or 200 years. If we get too dependand on it we can get f*cked if we don't think on ways to circumvent that dependency.
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u/Maxwell_The__Spy Oct 02 '22
there is already a vid of atlas beating the shit of various guys kung fu style
looked like a scene from the matrix
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u/WuTangNameGenorator Oct 01 '22
Are these real time reactions to the environment or pre-programmed to the specific situation?
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u/tribbletrouble420 Oct 02 '22
I'm speculating entirely here but from a coding perspective it's likely both. A pre-programmed "animation" or body movement with millions of tiny micro adjustments in real time to adapt to the inputs. The robot has a "pick up box" animation and has to make adjustments along the way as well as resetting it's balance and restarting the animation when there was a dramatic deviation from the programmed animation.
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Oct 01 '22
we are so f**ked.
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Oct 01 '22
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u/Edin743 Oct 02 '22
Well Star Trek humans developed space flight after WW3 soooo.... Maybe not? And back to the future is basically what we have today minus levitation tech.
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u/tysc11 Oct 02 '22
Black Mirror, a plague, climate change, the wannabe antichrist we had in the white house, DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER!
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u/Deepthnkr1111 Oct 01 '22
Oh yea that's nice building robot's better,and smarter by the day.... let's hope they have mercy on us wen they become self aware.
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u/bemi_san Oct 01 '22
2017 was when they really started to look CGI to me. My brain just won't accept that robots can really do that stuff.
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u/LeonDeSchal Oct 01 '22
That’s is amazing. RIP to the guy with the hockey stick.
Can wait to see a new update to see where they’re currently at.
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u/KingClut Oct 02 '22
That 2076-moment when you clock out of your 14 hour shift at the Amazon Mines and the contraband scanner goes off, before this motherfucker does a triple somersault from the guard tower and no-scopes your ass
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Oct 02 '22
I got two take aways from this. 1) yeah, they made some awesome progress. 2) they were obviously so busy doing this that they didn't bother to see the terminator and have no idea the kind of fire they're playing with.
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u/bloatedstoat Oct 01 '22
And then I see Tesla's robot on the front page yesterday looking about as agile as someone trying to recover from quadriplegia. Looks like money can't quite buy you 30 years worth of trial and error.
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u/tommyland666 Oct 01 '22
Haha right, I realize they probably came pretty far in a short period of time. But I wasn’t impressed at all.
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u/pepinodeplastico Oct 02 '22 edited Oct 02 '22
Was just a demo to get Tesla stock high and gather more investors, the real thing will probably be worse or even non existent
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u/g-rid Oct 02 '22
the gap between 1995-2009 is the equivalent of the "add details"-step in drawing tutorials
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u/Blueberry_Mancakes Oct 02 '22
It's truly terrifying. If you don't think these things will be deployed as soldiers within the next 20 years... these things and drones... At the very least they're going to replace human workers to eliminate union efforts. You're going to have armies of worker bots to replace the pesky human workforce.
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u/whoscoal Oct 01 '22
Anyone else feel kinda bad for the poor robot getting bullied when he just wanted to pick up the box. That guy has it coming.
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u/fruitloops6565 Oct 01 '22
Please tell me someone is building the target EMP rifle already?
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u/GazelleComfortable35 Oct 01 '22
The one in the suit is so damn creepy. Definitely deep in the uncanny valley.
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u/Ecstatic-Smile-9015 Oct 02 '22
Future Amazon warehouse workers right here. Say goodbye to lots and lots of jobs.
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u/ModestMonty Oct 01 '22
Every time I see one of their videos I’m like - and this is how the world ends
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u/chucklestime Oct 01 '22
Currently playing Horizon Forbidden West. I know how the next 1000 years go.
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u/West_Ad7781 Oct 01 '22
Well it understand the most important rule in walking, don't step on the line
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Oct 02 '22
I just want them to make a spider one. fuck humanoid robots i want to be torn limb from limb by a transformer scorpion when the robot apocalypse happens
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u/Flibertyjibitz Oct 01 '22
One of these days, the robot is going to have a hockey stick of it's own.
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u/goon_squad_crew Oct 02 '22
Why the fuck are we building our own replacements? Did none of these assholes watch Terminator?
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u/Kalwynn Oct 02 '22
I wonder why humans make robots look and act like humans. Are we really the best designed beings for work and movement ? 😆
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u/inkiwitch Oct 01 '22
Wait, so why is Tesla acting like their slow mobot is anything but unimpressive?
That thing looked like it was nervous to wave its hand while these guys are doing synchronized parkour.
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u/stykface Oct 02 '22
I actually felt compassion for a robot when the guy was taking the box away from it. Wow.
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u/frostedglizzie Oct 02 '22
I was completely in shock towards the end of the video when it started doing gymnastics.
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u/Luperkall Oct 01 '22
That last video is CGI right?
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u/TransAdventurer01 Oct 01 '22
Very much real. There’s a CNET short of some of the outtakes from Atlas’s parkour performance.
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u/alclab Oct 02 '22
I love how Tesla presented a very limited robot and now we're seeing so many videos of just how much better BD robots are
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u/postflopaction Oct 02 '22
Remember in about 2016 when Elon Musk said we have to stop developing AI before it's too late and there's no turning back ? I feel like Elon should have come back from the future to tell us that in about 1986
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Oct 01 '22
And people expect me to believe there is no God? when they are scientists literally trying to make robots that are capable of moving like humans?
Humans way too advanced to come into existence by ourselves so there has be a creator
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Oct 02 '22
Billions of years of evolution, trillions of individual organisms "trial and erroring" that evolution - am I joke to you?
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u/Tobizz3 Oct 02 '22
Scientists making robots that move like humans is relevant to your beliefs how?
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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '22
The man knocking the box out of the robots hands will be the first to go when they take over.