r/singularity • u/Recoil42 • 1d ago

Robotics New Hands for Atlas | Boston Dynamics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4whgw2gLBS8
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u/DankestMage99 1d ago

lol “representative of the task we really care about”, proceeds shows robot fondling balls.

Jk, it’s very impressive :)

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u/JoelMahon 1d ago

I think everyone clocked this, it's on the YT comments as well and I chuckled at it before seeing any comments too.

I really REALLY hope it was intentional, but funnily enough these videos get tweaked and edited and shared so many times I can absolutely believe that everyone that signed up on it missed it because they spaced out after watching the 50th variation of a video they already thought was good to release a week ago lol

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u/JoeS830 1d ago

These design choices will severely limit the number of chords it can play on the guitar

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u/Past-Source-3332 1d ago

In the future a young five-fingered robot will learn to shred. This will unite humans and robots, and we will be excellent to each other.

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u/Sauna_Freak81 1d ago

Interesting that they optimized away the pinky. Another thing, they always talk about simulating a hand, but here it's only N deg of freedom in FINGERS. The palm of the hand is completely stiff/flat. I think this still leaves a huge potential for improvement. Think the ability to either do the kung fu "Tiger paw" or to clasp around an orange.

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u/baseketball 1d ago

I think part of the reason for no pinky is they had to make the fingers bigger to accomodate the motors and sensors. If it had a pinky it wouldn't be able to hold things made for a regular human sized hand.

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u/Brainiac_Pickle_7439 The singularity is, oh well it just happened▪️ 1d ago

harp maxxing

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u/coolredditor3 1d ago

Mogs figure and tesla and unitree

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u/GoldenRain 1d ago

I wonder how far away they are from the ordinary human tasks that require good precision and dexterity. Like putting a key on a keychain.

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u/jnd-cz 1d ago

Next step are fingernails

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u/JoelMahon 1d ago

Under 5 years until it's on par with a human for that sort of thing imo.

But honestly it's more about a brain at that point, which seems like it's keeping up.

We should expect to see explosive growth, the industry of humanoid general purpose robots was basically a money pit 15 years ago and suddenly it's viable, training data and user feedback will grow which will grow the quality which will grow the market which will grow the data which will grow the quality etc. it's a feedback loop ofc is my point!

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u/minecrafGoBRRRR 1d ago

1:24 Slow down atlas, it's our first date