Re: OT: The Robots are coming.

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:14:50 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/9/2024 9:13 PM, Mad Hamish wrote:

On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 14:38:24 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
 

I know for many it's politically correct to crap on anything Elon Musk
is involved in these days, but its worth keeping up with his companies
accomplishments.
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Here's his robot, walking over uneven terrain, up and downhill, and
recovering from slips:

 
I worked for a guy 20 years ago who'd previously worked in robotics in
the USA
Companies had worked out walking robots when he was there.

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Link?
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No link this was in a conversation with him at work

1. Did it operate from on board power, or was it cabled?
2. Did it use on-board computers, or was that also cabled?
3. Could it walk over rough, unstable surfaces, as this one does?
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The earliest bipedal robot I can find is actually Chinese, from 2000,
called Xianxingzhe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTBxHOM-NmM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO#:~:text=E0%20was%20the%20first%20bipedal,produced%20from%201993%20through%201997.
has some earlier ones, and there's a medium link
https://antoniamalchik.medium.com/the-bumpy-road-to-a-walking-robot-c3d5e25e716c#:~:text=In%201969%20a%20team%20at,manage%20stairs%20and%20small%20inclines.
that puts it further back
"In 1969 a team at Waseda University in Japan built the first
computer-controlled bipedal robot. It took an achingly slow ninety
seconds to complete each step on a completely flat surface. Only in
1971 did that same team build a version that could manage stairs and
small inclines"

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It doesn't meet any of the 3 above conditions, though it can handle
stepping over an obstacle.
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The new ones can do all these things. They are a hell of a
lot closer to Asimovian robots than anything that came before.
Tesla has done in 3 years what took Boston Dynamics 20.
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