Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This is terrifying (and very cool)”.
Oh hey: should we talk about Boston, dynamics’s, new uh, new robot, one day, one day after they announced that Atlas is no more. They announced a new all El electric humanoid robot. Also named Atlas um. You want to watch the video yeah.
I mean I’ve watched it now. Obviously, but it’s worth watching again. I love how they made it stand up. It’S just dude seriously. This legitimately reminds me of iRobot like it it it looks more. It looks more fake than it does real yeah. It looks like it looks like a game. It looks like a character out of a portal game or something like it. I’Ve always had kind of a theory that, like the the people in the contracts that are that are working with Boston Dynamics, they they kind of want their videos to appear sort of terrifying um.
I don’t know they are Masters Masters at viral marketing. I mean they’ve got four million views on this video yeah and the more terrifying they make it. The more people are going to share. Go.
Oh, have you seen this? It’S crazy! It’S spooky man, the robots are going to take over. This looks super cool dude. I mean yeah, it makes sense right like why do your limbs have to only bend the way that human limbs do they might as well just like Bend IN in any way that you want, but like, but still be human shaped, so that you can take advantage Of how the world is kind of made for humans, what kind of jobs are these going to do? I am amazed at how and obviously we can’t we can’t quite tell um, but I am amazed at how apparently humanlike the form factor is I I I I don’t know I mean. Obviously I’m not I’m not an expert when it comes to um, robotic design.
Much more humanlike than Atlas was Atlas was pretty bulky. Atlas was like a human with a gigantic backpack. You know some people are pretty bulky, but this is atas was very like Barrel chested. I guess the the legs on Atlas were kind of, like naturally curved out. So that wasn’t, as Atlas was hydraulic right, this is electric yeah yeah, but that doesn’t change appearance much. It might be the extra overhead of all the cables and pumps and things. Maybe this is wild dude nuts. I just keep looking at this going like I. I thought we were a like, I’m, obviously not an expert when it comes to robotics right like it’s, not what I do, but I thought we were a lot more years away from something that was this clean and this compact that’s, what’s really blowing me away about This like how how does that have enough battery power to operate on board it yeah like where even is it probably in the chest somewhere, but still that’s wild, yeah right? Why? Why, wouldn’t you just put it everywhere? Yeah I mean maybe yeah well more wiring. It’S actually it it adds complication. I mean it might help with weight distribution, but no idea there’s definitely going to be trade-offs. There.
Wireless charging in the feet, yeah that that you might also not have one battery that powers the whole thing like those those like uh. It’S like quad, where, where you would normally have quad muscles, are pretty bulky there might be batteries like for the legs in that area, not sure or that’s just all infrastructure for the knees. That’S probably what it is man. I have no idea. I don’t know. Yeah figure robots. We I’m pretty sure we’ve watched that figure AI video on on W, didn’t we, where it like hands the person, the apple and stuff. Do we not watch that? I can’t remember yeah we did on when we did.
I don’t remember sorry, have you seen? Oh, I literally closed it right as you nice. While he looks that up, kananu Reeves is apparently going to be the voice of Shadow. The Hedgehog in the upcoming Sonic 3 movie, nice um. The plot of the movie reportedly involves Dr Robotnik getting his groove back after the events of Sonic 2.
So yeah could be, could be interesting. Um, okay, you ready um. Yes, oh it’s an ad nice cool, a back backpack! It’S not a back! Is this! It yeah have you seen this? Do you recognize this? No okay, so maybe we haven’t, then maybe Dan and I were just talking about it. Sorry, I thought this was the one that you watched on W you kind of need audio.
Can we get that figured out? Uh yeah, I’m sure I can live without it. He’S he’s telling it to do something. It’S going to do something I get it. It’S definitely better with audio, because he does reasoning and stuff like through audio.
So, like he’s asking him to tell him like why he’s doing different things and in what order, while he’s doing a different thing actively with his hands, that’s pretty cool. Where should all the dishes go and stuff like that, I think is while he’s putting the garbage away so he’s like doing a task while talking about a different task, all righty and the world’s going to be wild, and then he tells them like based on based On what you see in front of you, where do you think the cup and the plate should go, and then he says something along the lines of like? I think they should go in the drying rack and then he tells them to actually like do it. So he has it, he has it reason it out first and then I don’t think he says like put them in the drying rack. I think he says like okay.
Do that or whatever like put them away or something yeah huh. It looks a lot more useful than my kids huh all right. Well, good luck! Humans, .