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Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008)

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Boston Dynamics showcases BigDog, a quadruped robot navigating rough terrain, ice, and recovering from slips and kicks.

Boston Dynamics just released a new video of the Big Dog on ice and snow, and also demoing its walking gait.

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What people say. Highly recommended as a classic, influential demonstration of quadrupedal robotic locomotion and balance recovery.

russellon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Toyota Humanoid Robot Runs At 7 Km/hr - Awesome Vid”

I thought Toyota was pretty good until I followed the link in the article to Big Dog. link to this video Big Dog is truly awesome. It runs, jumps, recovers from slips, climbs over rubble, ...
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lackeron Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online?”

Here's some specific suggestions. I was most recently fascinated by this video on head tracking "virtual reality". link Another cool thing if you're into DIY robots (not really educational, but I found it inspiring) is the Yellow Drum Machine. link Not sure why I got on the robot tangent but here's another good one, a 4-legged robot that's pretty good at navigating hills and obstacles. Especially the recovery from a fall sequence around 1:25. link to this video And here is hacking the Wii Fit controller and a Roomba to do a sort of vacuum-by-surfing... thing? link
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vitobcnon Hacker News • Recommends

On “The latest version of the LittleDog robot ”

I find amazing how difficult it is to successfully perform apparently trivial tasks such as walking. There's more information about the 'LittleDog' on the Boston Dynamics website: link I was really impressed 2 years ago by their video of the 'BigDog': link to this video (check out t=40s)
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jamesaguilaron Hacker News • Mentions

On “And everyone gets a robot pony”

On a more flippant level, isn't it pretty obvious that robot ponies are going to be a thing that is possible to have some time in the next century or two? We've already got something that's kind of moving in that direction, and this was a few years ago: link to this video
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ilakshon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Breakthroughs that have unleashed AI development”

…nderstood in terms of attention, focus, and other aspects. Artificial general intelligence is a very active field seeing quite a bit of progress. Here is a bird that flies with flapping wings: link (By the way, that is completely unrelated to AI). Walking over uneven terrain, (also completely unrelated to artificial general intelligence): link link to this video Deep learning is beyond statistical pattern matching. It does involve both supervised and unsupervised learning. Deep learning is currently the most successful technique, but not the most ambitious approach in AGI. Google for 'AGI', 'deep learning', 'sparse autoencoder', 'hierarchical hidden Markov model', 'OpenCog', 'spiking neural network…
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Johnny555on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Sony Aibo”

Just because he ruled it out doesn't mean that it's not a factor. People become attached to lots of inanimate items, and can feel emphathy for robots 1 2, though perhaps not as strongly as with living creatures. US Military soldiers can develop an emotional connection with bomb disposal robots. 3 I definitely sympathize with this dog-like robot slipping on ice: link to this video Even though it's clearly a robot with no attempt to make it look or act like a dog. I can definitely believe that people can become attached, even fall in love with, their robot dogs. 1 link 2 link 3 link
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Izkataon Hacker News • Mentions

On “What the History of Math Can Teach Us About the Future of AI”

…ay and the foreseeable future. > Wow no. ...wow indeed. No research at all. Often I just read the comments here and skip the article, but that made me go and look to be sure. For anyone somehow still unaware (BigDog creepiness factor was nearly viral back when I was in college around 2008), BigDog has been handling rough terrain for over a decade: link to this video Here's BigDog getting abused to see what it can recover from (including being kicked in the side): link Here's a running cheetah robot jumping over unexpected obstacles (2015): link And here's a two-legged robot walking around outside (2017): link…
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krappon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Walking Truck”

…er recent Boston Dynamics quadrupeds that aren't designed for human passengers are much faster2, but still awkward. Also remember these are expensive prototypes designed to test things other than speed. Making them faster only guarantees that they break themselves harder when they run into a wall or trip over a cliff or something. 0 link 1 link to this video 2 link >I think Neal Stephenson described a skateboard with hundreds of tiny feet, moving faster than wheels on any surface. I want to see that. I am neither Neal Stephenson nor a physicist but I'm pretty sure the friction caused by the increased surface contact of "hundreds of tiny feet" versus wheels would still make the wheels faster…
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