Posted on 10/14/2018 7:51:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin
What is parkour? It has its roots in military obstacle course training, No assistive equipment. Plenty of reasons to fall over and give up. This is a training discipline that sets a complex environment where requirements include such movements as running, climbing, vaulting, jumping and crawling.
Atlas in the video is wonderful in jumping, showing excellent control. How Atlas achieves such balance: computer vision serves to locate itself with respect to visible markers on the approach, hitting terrain accurately. The team said that "The control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without breaking its pace."
They used a step height of 40 cm (1.3 ft) and the highlight of the viewing experience is seeing how the robot is superior in its leaping up the 40-cm steps.
Boston Dynamics said the robot's hardware takes advantage of 3D printing, to save weight and space. The team boasts of the high strength-to-weight ratio.
Brandon Hill in HotHardware points to what is different about the "now" Atlas from the Atlas of older views. Mainly, Hill wrote that we saw Atlas previously having to stop, to gather its "thoughts", and then use propulsion from both feet.
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Extremely impressive.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
double ought
“What is parkour?”
What, you never played assassin’s creed? How far are we from an armed platoon of these things?
Yep, or an arrow to the knee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LikxFZZO2sk
Boston Dynamics should design Atlas first as a beat cop - a protector - not a soldier.
Atlas walks or runs a beat based on standard routes - but can quickly respond to emergencies within his beat - sending pictures back to HQ, standing in front of victims until cops arrive, stopping traffic etc. When he’s not walking the beat he can be stopped to answer simple questions...
I guess I’d better accelerate my efforts to produce a portable EMP gun. Looks like we’ll be needing them.
Wait until Google controls all those killing machines. We’re F***ed.
I was thinking a cable. In the right position on those boxes could cause the feet to miss and gravity can take care of the rest.
The roots of Parkour extend back millennia before military obstacle training, to when that first cave man was chased by giant animals.
Coherent light works so perhaps coherent electromagnetic pulses are possible, but I don’t think so.
Try a electromagnetic magnetic pulse grenade I am sure that it is possible. But it won’t be easy. I think advances in materials like superconductors are necessary.
There’s always countermeasures but that thing’s grandson could be very dangerous.
Makes me think of the assassin in “Live Free or Die Hard”
The one Bruce Willis calls Monkey Boy.
My bad. He calls him “Spider Boy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wXBmSecjDo
Its first job will be to deliver Amazon packages.
So a robot motorcycle that transforms into a biped to bring the package right to the stoop?
Amazing - I think you’re right.
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