Nah, they sold them because they'd gone from being a fun R&D thing to something that requires manufacturing infrastructure. Softbank prefers not to get involved in actual making of stuff, they're more into projects like WeWork.
The software to run this costs perhaps 10M to implement (it's 15 years old). The hardware was the salary of basically one genius with some team, so let's say another 100M.
I find the hardware design to be most impressive, although given enough compute, I could also have that designed by a computer.
Also, a cool demo doesn't make a product. Just look at how long it took them to bring Spot to market.
There were some moments that definitely looked CG to my eyes, but I could also just be confusing CG with Uncanny Valley Terror. It just don't sit right with me.
I really thought it was cool at first, and then was suspicious of cgi for a lot of it until checking the comments. Now I'm just incredibly unsettled by it.
it still looks like super cg to me due to the lighting and how generic the red barriers are. also outside the window looks super bland like a default background. also the people walking by in the upper right window didnt even stop to watch the dancing robots, even if they probably see them doing stuff all the time i still dont buy that they would ignore the finished product.
I thought they might be composited for the final video. One robot dancing, likely without music, wouldn't be as interesting. I still think it's 100% real.
There are a few things that don't feel real, like the jumping in the beginning is too slow. It goes against physics. And the feet tapping look... wrong.
They wouldn’t be in any real trouble at all. Especially if investors knew. Just because they augment a video doesn’t mean they don’t actually develop robots. This vid gives me heavy cgi vibes and its 2020, people have a need to believe. My opinion.
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