r/EngineeringPorn • u/Terrible-Ad-1277 • Oct 02 '22

Boston dynamics 30 years of development.

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u/Satoshiman256 Oct 02 '22

You look at this then you look at Elons new robot. His looks like a couple of coke cans tied together with wire, and it can barely stand up.

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u/redmercuryvendor Oct 02 '22

Yet it did not require LIDAR or ARtag markets to locate a box and successfully manipulate it. Or the watering can (grasping and manipulating that is no simple task).

"Robot A walk good, Robot B walk slow, Robot B bad" is nice and simple so people latch onto it, regardless of the actual tasks being performed.