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Boston Dynamics demonstrates its Atlas humanoid robots performing a parkour course with jumps, balance beams, and backflips.

Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team at Boston Dynamics to experiment with new behaviors. In this video our humanoid robots demonstrate their whole-body athletics, maintaining its balance through a variety of rapidly changing, high-energy activities. Through jumps, balance beams, and vaults, we demonstrate how we push Atlas to its limits to discover the next generation of mobility, perception, and athletic intelligence. How does Atlas do parkour? Go behind the scenes in the lab: youtu.be/EezdinoG4mk Parkour Atlas: youtu.be/LikxFZZO2sk More Parkour Atlas: youtu.be/_sBBaNYex3E #BostonDynamics #Atlas #Parkour

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What people say. Recommended as an impressive demonstration of the state of the art in humanoid robot mobility and dynamic balance.

SXXon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Xiaomi’s Humanoid Drummer Beats Expectations”

I can say I'm much impressed. At the same time I haven't watched Boston Dynamics videos for last couple of years. When I checked latest Atlas demo from 2021 it look like sci-fi to me: link to this video
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sergiotapiaon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot””

We said the same thing about movement in robots -- and today we have: link to this video Just ridiculous how far things have come, it seems fake it's so far along.
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retSavaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Atlas robot does parkour”

This is the video with the blog post: link to this video To me, I like to see when they stutter or slightly-fail, since that to indicates the dynamics and real-time part of the thing, that it is not a 100% scripted thing (although the blog post mentions the engineers fine-tuning the celebratory arm-pump, to what extent is that scripted then?)
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rkagereron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Atlas robot does parkour”

What's that dripping from the right robot's right thigh near the end? link to this video Also are the layers of foam over the landing surfaces they backflip onto needed for dampening?
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chronic2703on Hacker News • Mentions

On “An inside look at the custom CPUs in Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer”

> i cant stop thinking about the tesla bot. was he he outright lying? Elon is jealous of Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics released an impressive video this week 1, which took the spotlight away from Tesla. 1 link to this video
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goldenkeyon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Artificial muscles robotic arm with full range of motion [video]”

…e ability to perform computational experiments that our predecessors couldn't, changes the viability of almost every unsolved problem. Boston Dynamics would have never created Atlas or Spot if they clung to common tropes about robots. And now, due to battery technology, the once tethered robots are dexterously mobile. 2 1 link 2 link 3 link to this video…
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TaylorAlexanderon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Research Notes on Humanoid Robots”

…Robotics Digit. It is a real human like form factor (small human not huge!). If I recall correctly it is an energy efficient walking system too. link This long continuous shot of walking from 2019 is nice too. They have improved their software a lot but the hardware was already in good shape. link Meanwhile Boston Dynamics is doing quite well. link to this video Best path to success is Tesla buys Agility Robotics, revs the design for Digit to integrate the Tesla AI system, and spins up a manufacturing line. They could focus immediately on the high level AI problem rather than worrying about design. Could slap their AI system on digit while mechanical teams rev the new design so they get moving quic…
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TaylorAlexanderon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Research Notes on Humanoid Robots”

I agree with the neighbor comment, 2015 was a long time ago. See the state of the art today: Agility Robotics Digit: link Boston Dynamics Atlas: link to this video Neither of those robots use a static walk. That is obvious enough in the above Boston Dynamics video, but Agility Robotics also just released a little video explaining their (very robust) dynamic walking system: link It seems clear the basic hardware to do humanoid walking is technologically achievable today. Personally I would think Tesla would be better suited by copying or buying Agility Robotics as Digit is a smaller robot and it looks cheaper than Atlas too. Better for working in a warehouse alongside people as shown in the top vide…
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edouard-harrison Hacker News • Mentions

On “DeepMind: A Generalist Agent”

That Tim Urban piece is great. It's also an interesting time capsule in terms of which AI problems were and were not considered hard in 2015 (when the post was written). From the post: > Build a computer that can multiply two ten-digit numbers in a split second—incredibly easy. Build one that can look at a dog and answer whether it’s a dog or a cat—spectacularly difficult. Make AI that can beat any human in chess? Done. Make one that can read a paragraph from a six-year-old’s picture book and not just recognize the words but understand the meaning of them? Google is currently spending billions of dollars trying to do it. Hard things—like calculus, financial market strategy, and language tran…
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LinuxBenderon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: How long until ChatGPT is given a robot arm?”

May we finally have walking humanoids robots in our lifetime? I think people are already getting ideas 1 and I am looking forward to everything that follows. From a safe distance There are already walking robots but they are very expensive prototypes and look nothing like humans. 2 Given how many things ChatGPT confidently gets wrong I am not sure how that would play out in a robot. 1 - link link to this videomovie trailer 2 - link to this video link to this video1 min
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rgloveron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold”

Not yet 1. Total symbiosis of corporations and government—to the point of making Mussolini blush—is the ultimate goal. Sure, that sounds paranoid, but look at how far we've come on that spectrum in the last 30 years. Proliferation of technology (due to its enabling of surveillance and weakening of the state) all but guarantees that future. 1 link to this video
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johnthesecureon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots”

Two years ago, the Boston Dynamics Atlas could do mid-air somersaults - that's better than most 10-year-olds. link to this video
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ahiknsron Hacker News • Mentions

On “The Retreat to Muskworld”

> If anyone is going to make self driving work, the odds are stacked in Tesla's favor. How disconnected from reality are you to make this statement? link Waymo self-driving has been open to general public since June 2024 and Telsa still doesn't have full self driving technology and yet here you are claiming odds are stacked in Tesla's favor. > I feel similarly excited for Tesla when they demonstrate robots with incredible dexterity. Did you never hear about Boston dynamics? link to this video This is 3 years old video and Tesla's robots don't have as much dexterity as the robot from the video. And unlike Tesla's robot, Boston Dynamics robot is fully automated.
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kohsukeon Hacker News • Mentions

On “AI-induced dehumanization (2024)”

So they run 5 different experiments to test the hypothesis, and they were nothing like what I imagined. For example, in one study, they divide participants into two groups, have one group watch link (that highlights the high socio-emotional capabilities of a robot), while the other watches link to this video (that highlights the low socio-emotional capabilities of a robot) They are then asked if they agree or disagree with a (presumably hypothetical?) company's proposal to reduce employees' welfare, such as replacing a meal with a shake. Two groups showed a different preference. This makes me think about that old question of whether you thank LLM or not. That is treating LLMs more like humans, so if…
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