Triton said:Yes, Boston Dynamics videos give me chills.
There's a Black Mirror episode with some of these as Terminators. Sort of creepy but a shot gun with slugs would make short work of them.
Triton said:Yes, Boston Dynamics videos give me chills.
sferrin said:There's a Black Mirror episode with some of these as Terminators. Sort of creepy but a shot gun with slugs would make short work of them.
Apparently just for now they're only going to be leasing them, but they're rumoured / speculated to be in the ballpark of $50,000 to $100,000 (they are advanced robots, but Boston Dynamics has been specifically doing quite a bit of work to make Spot Mini cheaper to manufacture for commercial use).So how much $ for Spot? It will be interesting to see what services OEM's might target. I doubt they are cheap enough for personal use.
Cops have long had dogs, and robots, to help them do their jobs. And now, they have a robot dog.
Massachusetts State Police is the first law enforcement agency in the country to use Boston Dynamics' dog-like robot, called Spot. While the use of robotic technology is not new for state police, the temporary acquisition of Spot — a customizable robot some have called“terrifying” — is raising questions from civil rights advocates about how much oversight there should be over police robotics programs.
- So what do you think will be the first killer app/functionality for military legged robots?
- What kind of concept of operation would work best?
- What performance characteristic combination would define a useful robot? (range, terrain crossing, speed, autonomy, payload, stealth, etc)
Well, in my assumption, the priority is in this order:- What performance characteristic combination would define a useful robot? (range, terrain crossing, speed, autonomy, payload, stealth, etc)
Boston Dynamics has been passed around a bit - owned by google, then Softbank, now Hyundai. This is a Hyundai-only project, but this time the potential synergy is clearer. Hyundai's long been working on combinations of wheels and legs to cross rough terrain.
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Hyundai Motor Group Unveils TIGER Uncrewed Ultimate Mobility Vehicle Concept
Experience Hyundais events and latest newsHyundai Motor Group has revealed TIGER Transforming Intelligent Ground Excursion Robot the companys second Ultimate Mowww.hyundai.com
Imagine them relentlessly following their targets and serving writs and subpoenas with those arms.A number of spot robots have been purchased by police, this deserve some discussion.
And hopefully more interesting than predictable frontlash~
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Don’t Arm Robots in Policing
A new bill would “prohibit the New York City Police Department (NYPD) from using or threatening to use robots armed with a weapon or to use robots in any manner that is substantially likely to cause death or serious physical injury.”www.hrw.org
Looking at the police use case, what a robot needs is exactly arms.
*As in, manipulators.*
Patrolling, opening doors in higher risk situations and bomb disposal are all no brainers. What is really interesting is potential for dog-bot kung-ku to take-down and subdue folks without the problem of oppressive demographics. Robots dancing is old now, what we need is robot martial arts
*god this seem obscure and fun enough: anyone help crowdfund this idea?*
Have you actually been watching what's going on the last few years? For real applications Bigdog and it's gas engine has long since been superseded by Spot, which is all electric and quiet.I am not impressed. The loud gas engine on BigDog is a dead giveaway. If I was guarding a perimeter, I would find out how many rounds it would take to bring one down or cripple it. The same with other robot dogs.
Take a look at their DARPA collaboration cheetah bot...I have. I also recall watching a video of a six-legged manned vehicle on trials. Anyway, the more complex a system is, the easier it is to eliminate. Damage one leg and a four-legged robot is not going far. And due to cost, I cannot see this going beyond civilian tasks. And how much armor does one of these have? It would be like taking down an animal.
Have you actually been watching what's going on the last few years? For real applications Bigdog and it's gas engine has long since been superseded by Spot, which is all electric and quiet.I am not impressed. The loud gas engine on BigDog is a dead giveaway. If I was guarding a perimeter, I would find out how many rounds it would take to bring one down or cripple it. The same with other robot dogs.
Chinese cheap robots, coming toswarmbored yuppie near u
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Now that I think about it, the door opening arm as kind of a killer app (with deepest growth curve with software dev, which have barely started) IMO, legged locomotion by itself is really quite meh.
Winning the software stack will probably be the biggest thing. Will have to do some research into the field....
...announcing Rapid Motor Adaptation (RMA)....
Until now, legged robots have either been fully hand-coded for the environments they will inhabit or taught to navigate their environments through a combination of hand-coding and learning techniques. RMA is the first entirely learning-based system to enable a legged robot to adapt to its environment from scratch by exploring and interacting with the world.
Our tests demonstrate that an RMA-enabled robot outperforms alternative systems when walking over different surfaces, slopes, and obstacles, and when given different payloads to carry. This requires going beyond even sophisticated hand-coding, because it is difficult or impossible to preprogram a robot to adjust to the full range of real-world conditions, whether it’s a different type of rug, a deeper mud puddle, or a bouncier trampoline. Moreover, to work reliably, robots must be able to adjust not only to carrying different loads but also to expected wear and tear, like a dent on the bottom of its foot, a slightly worn-down part, or the countless other unpredictable changes that happen in the real world. Because its ability is based entirely on what it encounters, an RMA-enabled robot can adjust to situations programmers never even considered.
We are now sharing our work, including implementation details and experimental results, in this paper.
Seems strange to see a robot armed with a pig. You'd think they would have mounted a more modern machine gun.