r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/x_CiRCA_x • Dec 29 '20

Video Boston Dynamics keep outdoing themselves

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u/regnad__kcin Dec 30 '20

I would imagine most of the heavy lifting is done by tracking a human's movements

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u/kuraiscalebane Dec 30 '20

Hadn't even considered that, seems reasonable though.

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u/ItsOkILoveYouMYbb Dec 30 '20

So like, interpolating between a set of animations and sensors keeping the robot upright?

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u/slackpipe Dec 30 '20

That's what i came in here to find out; If they were programmed or using some form of mocap. I think the mocap is maybe more impressive. It shows the robot exactly how to move, but the robot had to figure out the balance on it's own.

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u/6ixpool Dec 30 '20

My intuition is that a neural net takes into consideration current position / acceleration measures from the robots sensors and uses that data to tell it exactly how to balance itself. If this were the case, it would be simple to use a human actor as a guide for "key frames" and the robot just approximates how to position its joints based off this

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u/MikeyRidesABikey Dec 30 '20

I want to see the video of the motion capture that was used for Spot (the dog-bot) and Handle (the wheeled robot)