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On “Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot”
> Can it get up if knocked over? Yes link . > Just how resilient is it? Watch it on ice link to this video I assumed the HN crowd had already seen all these videos.
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Boston Dynamics demonstrates the capabilities of BigDog, an early quadruped robot designed for rough terrain and dynamic balance.
BigDog climbs in the woods, keeps its balance when kicked and when slipping on ice, travels through snow and mud, jogs 5 mph, and climbs some rubble.Why it's here
1 person recommends thisWhat people say. Shared as a classic and impressive early demonstration of dynamic legged locomotion and robotic resilience.
Retricon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Google & Stanford create a digital brain that learns to identify a human face”
…problem, building the hardware, and building the software. If you use neural networks for the software then it's going to take more resources to run, and take a while to train. However, while people may be able to write more efficient software that requires fewer resources developing that software is going to take longer and cost a lot more money. link to this video The idea that I can create software which works even if I don't understand why it works is a powerful idea. The point of AI as a field is stepping back and saying: "Computers are fast and cheap, people are slow and expensive, can't we automate this?" and continuing to do that not just to secretary's, or even coders, but also designers. As l…
SmileyKeithon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Google Acquires Boston Dynamics”
Having just watched this video0 of some of their work this stuff is just amazing. I can't wait to see what Google does with it. Also this is what makes Google such an awesome company from a computer science perspective IMO. 0: link to this video
cabalamaton Hacker News • Mentions
On “The rise of robots and the future of jobs”
It says in the article that Big Dog is a robot made by a company Google bought. Here's a video: link to this video
davidwon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Gotchas from Two Years with Node”
> At any given time there’s only a single running code block. > But here… there be dragons. That's one of the things Erlang solves pretty well. Sometimes I sort of envision it as that robot dog/mule thing that they keep kicking and it gets back up and keeps going. link to this video if you have never seen it before.
blacksmith_tbon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Boston Dynamics will start selling its dog-like SpotMini robot in 2019”
The Big Dog has an internal combustion engine (what I take to be an electrical generator) that is about as loud as a chainsaw1. SpotMini makes servo noises, but it's all-electric, and quite a bit less noisy. 1: link to this video
EvanAndersonon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Do You Love Me? [video]”
I can't be the only person who really wanted a human to enter the frame and menace the robots with a hockey stick1 or kick one of them2. 1 link 2 link to this video