Thanks so much! Glad you appreciate the hard work and effort put into making Atlas's movements believable 👨‍💻I'm sure all that effort paid off!

True. Thanks to that, it gives more credibility to the project/work of these people. Plus, it gives it a "Cyberpunk" look, from the damage that looks like it went through a lot to get to where it is, without being a sci-fi bad thing, of course. Although that won't stop people from thinking this is done in CGI. XD

Well said.

Shows character. If you don't have a few scars then you aren't trying.

Saves a few bucks

Yeah imagine the bot that is supposed to help you at your worksite started throwing bags of tools and trying to do backflips putting people and equipment in jeapardy.

@@darkkingastos4369 so basically an apprentice that post to tik tok, or how ever you spell it...

How is this terrifying?

"hOw Is ThiS TerRiFyIng?" you CANNOT be this thick. if that thing "decides" to f!$k you up, if it malfunctions and yeets a chunk of metal or stone at your empty head, if it isnt programmed perfectly at ALL stages of manufacture AND use by EVERYONE that is in control of it... if it leans on you. if it falls on you... if it grabs you... if you get in its way... you. are. DEAD. you will NOT stop it. you will NOT move it or push it away or off of you. youre literally just f!&king dead. this thing is literally a *pickup truck* with a mind of its own. if youre NOT afraid of this thing you do not belong ANYWHERE near heavy machinery.

@@aa-tx7th Dude, go outside and touch grass. You've been watching way too many sci-fi movies. Stop living in irrational fear.

Absolutely. It's also telling how nobody cares that the 's' in 'Boston' on the front of the robot has been partially rubbed off by lots of mistakes. This company clearly has integrity and really cares about what is important with this development. Real engineers and really inspirational. (Not marketing BS we see so much these days with certain other companies.)

y but actually htey did eactly that all the time

@@jam99 yes... especially especially China companies

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@jam99 Yeah I used to follow ASIMO updates back in the day, but it was always so theoretical, and any demonstrations were clearly faked or just remote controlled… I mean it was an impressive machine, nothing really walked like that before ASIMO, but the promo videos would always claim way more than was even close to reality. (BTW, I know there was work done in more natural gait robots, but… they didn’t get funding I guess… not sure what happened. Then Boston Dynamics came along. Still doesn’t seem to have the natural stride of some of those walkers I’ve seen… but getting there

Robot looks doubled over in pain 💀💀💀

@@studioCAA ah hell nah they got him rigged with the hidden pain sensors

I felt that too and in other videos of robots being pushed around, teased, etc. I guess it goes back to our compassion that God instilled in us. I wouldn’t like to watch a stuffed animal be torn apart or beaten yet I know it doesn’t feel anything. I don’t want my car to get dented either. I’ve named my cars in the past even though they aren’t alive. Maybe we just connect more with objects when they are named.

you only feel compassion because it LOOKS human, it's NOT human. Something future generations will grasp better than ours.

Same here Buzzk1ll.

Yes

excellent

It is !

Nice

Awesome app

unfortunately most of what we're seeing here is just pre-programmed routines - the robot doesn't recognize the objects, it just follows a pre-programmed route and set of actions. i believe they need to link up with Open AI and build a generative model which would evolve in a more natural way. writing code to handle real world interactions seems like the wrong direction to me. above being said - kudos to the team, this certaintly is impressive!

you really think its amazing? I've been obsessively following this since Star Wars came out and I fell in love with droids. It's been a pretty sad bunch of decades waiting for anything to happen. I feel in the last 2 years we've seen an explosion in A.I for the first time but robotics is still so far behind. I think A.I is doing all the heavy lifting funnily enough for robotics and we'll see more happening because of A.I leaps but the technical limit of batteries and physical engineering is just so far behind my sci-fi vision of what the future would and should be. But its all based on movies and books where they can have magically solved these issues. The real world has this stubborn property of anything physically based being enormously difficult. Fingers crossed 2023 will be a break out year for robotics.

Atlas would eat Asimo for breakfast LOL :D

@@pondeify I prefer if AI to be made from math & logic instead of self-generated model, because written codes are deterministic, and its logic can be traced or debugged.

@@chyza2012 they seem to be coding from the seat of their pants rather than using anything off the shelf but that's me as a novice looking in. If you compare say Googles A.I driven robot that responds to conversational commands like. I'm thirsty and the robot goes and finds a drink in an environment it has never seen. That's absolutely cutting edge and you can see how wonky it is even at the cutting edge. So just attempting this with a robot as complex as Atlas looks to be to be a huge step forward. no pun intended.

Lets combine this with GPT models already :D

​@@VividCoding and than get ready for dystopia

​@@VividCodinglet's not do that. GPT models suck, we should wait until there's something more lightweight that is reasonable to run on an embedded machine like the one in Atlas.

Have you seen the Boston Dynamics interviews with their roboticists?

@@TonyTylerDraws Boston dynamics is wack there code programing is completely wrong. Runnin down a dead end road, good example of what not to do

@@wtfworld814 what makes you say this? Can you go deeper on this?

@@wtfworld814 Please enlighten us about how much you know about their code base and how it's "wack".

@@Kumari_44 no I can't, there actually spot on, I just got into an argument with my wife and needed to tell someone they were wrong, sorry

The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. Dr. Zoidberg Test: Complete

@@aggonzalezdc great reference

Me: this thing will usher in the apocalypse Scientist: Why not zoidberg?

now they just need to make it run on alcohol and tell people to bite its shiny metal a**

I thought it was the crabmen from South Park

From 3:04 they talk about how they try to make atlas include the mass of the heavy objects into its movement calculations. My guess is that this movement is not hard coded, but shows the result of the code being able to calculate the trajectory of the bag after receiving instructions like: take bag at approximately location X, go to location Y and throw to location Z. I assume the physics calculations happened on the fly

That moment was probably caught after many test runs, probably run it in simulator for several times then many calibrations… don’t think that happen first time running one simulator run

CGI is a hell of a drug

​@@skamarfireyour life is pretty sad man

@@skamarfireI know I won’t be able to change your opinion, and that’s ok, but there’s actual real places where you can go see Atlas and Spot. I saw them once. I used to think this was CGI as well.

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I think Atlas, or else some descendant of it, will end up housing the first AGI.

With 3d printing advancements making the technology more accessible, I'd bet lots of hobbyist robot developers will start appearing in the coming decade as the software for designing and emulating real world physics improves. I'm excited to see robots in the real world

I feel you. Every software "engineer" these days seem to be making websites. lol

@@leeoiou7295 software engineering deals with stuff like data analysis, making applications and creating websites and games, etc. It is pretty different from making robots or other systems that interact with or measure the real world. Sure having a software engineer on the team may be helpful but it seems they aren’t purely a software engineer. You also then get subsets within software engineering like machine learning or video processing, although from what I have seen those can also be taught to EEs. The physics and equations used and reading the data from the sensors is much more the domain of mechanical and electrical engineers than it is software engineers. Writing code for embedded systems is very different from writing code designed to run on a desktop computer or server. A lot of what software engineers may be used to using just doesn’t work or isn’t a good idea, like a lot of embedded systems need programmed in C, not Python since performance is limited, or you can’t use recursion all that much due to limited memory and stack. Not saying that you don’t need software engineers just that a pure software engineer wouldn’t be that useful, it might be better to capture them under the umbrella term of robotics engineer, which is a very broad term combining, electrical, mechanical and a little bit of software engineering amongst other disciplines. There is a big difference between writing software to run on a server or computer and running it on a physical device like a robot.

@@conorstewart2214 "Software engineering" itself is a false term. There are some software developers who do some real engineering stuff like OS developers, aviation software, embedded software, AI/ML OpenGL devs and some game devs. The vast majority of software "engineers" make websites and apps. Which has nothing to do with science or engineering and is nothing but a bastardisation of the word "engineering".

@@conorstewart2214 Of course pure software engineer would not do much here, as would not do pure electrical engineer or mechanical engineer. In complex systems like this you need experts in their respective fields to put this whole thing together. But the work of software engineer here is as important as of electrical engineer or mechanical engineer. Without actual proper software your sensors and the entire robot is just a piece of metal. Can an electrical engineer write some code, probably. Can a software engineer connect a few pins and wires probably can. But it takes a lot to build these things hence they have software engineers and electric engineers not just one doing everything. Concerning embedded system development of course it might take some different tools and languages to work with it, but it is still a software and any competent software engineer who worked for example in system development or even in web dev can handle it.

Robot replies.." That is what I was thinking of leaving scratches, dings and dents on humans after I push them down"

I think they break enough parts and if a Part is not broken there is no use to replace it I don't think the scrapes and dents are left there intentionally

@@patti441 That's reasonable, but imagine if this were being developed by Apple. No way they'd show it off with blemishes.

Here's an amusing anecdote from early days. A computerized arm that was was being used by an early hand-eye system was programmed to gather and stack some childhood blocks. It tried to stack the topmost block first. The programmers realized that they had learned about gravity well before they ever attempted to stack blocks. So they had to go back to the _real basics_ and add that knowledge to their software. Yes, some of the most impressive work Boston Dynamics has done is in the stuff we all take for granted.

Yes and it all happened "by accident."

@@apatrioticamerican99 It's either that or God, or aliens, basically the same thing if they can create a universe.

@Caleb OKAYregardless whether or not you believe in God, your statement is meaningless.

And it took evolution millions and millions of years to get where we are now. I'm curious how far Boston Dynamics will get.

@medved3027 you're very short sighted and not thinking big at all. If you think this is useless now, just wait until the robotic body is paired with the super computer A.I mind to replace you for your job over night. 😉

​​@@medved3027till this is just the first step. Spot is finished in the hardware aspect and can be used autonomously. atlas is still very much in development and i presume they want to finish hardware, balance and recognition before making it autonomous.

@@medved3027 Why? Spot has a decent number of sales doesn't it? It's a good bit short of sustaining the company given the breadth and depth of other projects, but the product must by all reason be doing real work. Not all of it has to be autonomous. Some can be scripted/automated, repetitive tasks; and other tasks may require operator remote, which is still useful in hazardous environments, and it's affordable enough for numerous scenarios. Atlas is a long way away from being more useful than Spot, but... well without moonshot projects, you'll just run out of incremental progress you can make.

@@medved3027 lol okay, Mister AI.

@@SianaGearz It’s not profitable which is why its owners have changed couple times over the years. It’s still amazing but not easy to create.

It - not he

@@lmrandlette they named him Atlas after the Greek God, it's a masculine name. Unlike yourself I'm sure this robot couldn't give a flying f what gender people refer to it as anyway.

@@StormcloudLive Could be more of a reminder to others to not give AI/Robots human rights. Ascribing animal traits to something that isn't an animal isn't new for humans... but there is a newer level of danger in doing so.

@@StormcloudLive pronouns please! 😉

@@Pete_xp are yours Pete / Poot? 😁😅

One of the more challenging things this human has had to do is to pick up and move a tray full photographic chemical solution. Damping out the oscillations (waves) in the tray requires a lot of concentration and quick (but tiny) responses. Try it with a large casserole dish with an inch of water in it. Outside.

Yeah, the human foot has a great deal of bones compared to other parts of the body, and there are many nuances in how it can articulate. Some of that complexity is due to our ability to switch "gears" from low-energy walking on our heels to high energy running on the balls of our feet, so for a slow robot we could probably reduce the complexity to focus on walking articulation.

@@ejwerme I have this struggle every time I take my cat's shallow water bowls to clean and refill. I really should fill with a cup but the challenge not to spill is exhilirating lol

One of the main issues with balancing the robot is that it cannot react fast enough to regain balance like a person would do instinctively, not to mention that its not as balanced as a human body because of the hydraulics, bearings, batteries, cameras and etc. Improving it's feet too much to the point its better than a human with proper shoes would kind of defeat it's purpose as of now.

@@ejwerme I remember learning to desynchronise my footsteps with the oscillations in my cup of strong black coffee, on my way back from the office kitchen. That would be a new level of analysis for this tech. No doubt it's coming.

No way

hopefully yall do well, i wish yall the best of luck

mine too

Second best for me, after Spot

but spot... the dog-robot... but what do you say if thay have some cat-robots?:D

Spot is cooler tho!

@@mho... can spot do backflips 😂

Stop

Sadly, they're first and foremost a company, not an entertainment channel.

@@spol To be realistic they are not really a company, after 3 decades they are more of a robotic research institution, they almost make no money (their revenue is a very small fraction of their expenses) and they won't be profitable for a long time, that's the reason Google and Softbank sold them and Hyundai will probably do that too.

@spol True enough. I wonder if there is such a thing as an impulse purchase of a spot robot? Would the revenue of a few generated sales cover the salary of a full-time Boston Dynamics vlogger or youtuberist?

@@JigilJigil Hyundai is more invested in robotics

@@JigilJigil that's why they started selling their robotic dog. :)

They are not making videos buddy 😂😂

@@ashishsontakke4040 This is a video, on a video sharing service.

@@jwadaow 😂😂 u didn't get that

@@jwadaow they are making robot, not video like youtuber that show everything they want for adsense.

2150 yrs

In the year 2050, we're gonna have android robots so advanced as the ones from Detroit: Become Human.

In 2030 we’ll have robots with extremely advanced and powerful actuators that can make true robots/androids that are as strong/stronger whilst being as flexible and agile as humans, together with denser battery breakthroughs and far more advanced ai neural systems enabling robots to be as smart/smarter and capable as humans whilst being able to emulate consciousness. It really is coming, fast. I’m beyond excited. I will say however, I think androids/robots should always be distinct from humans (even androids with human forms) I.e not having human-like skin etc. I wouldn’t mind dating a robot girl lol

That right there should be very scary

@@mindyours752 i literally said this exact same thing in another thread up top.

Why is it very scary ? Robotics can already do things we are incapable of.. we have been using cranes to lift and move heavy things for years

@@MaMastoast It is about really specific things, not everything. There are specific things that potentially can be used against you.

@@MaMastoast the scary thing isn’t the physical capability existing - it’s the fact that the machine is acting on its own more than a human is controlling it. Cranes, heavy construction equipment, things that could easily squish humans, are all operated by humans and human intent; Atlas is given instructions and carries them out on its own. What if an AI were to decide what instructions to send? And what if that AI decides to do things that are bad for humans, and between being able to formulate and execute plans faster and superior power in hardware it decided to destroy humanity? I don’t think it’s likely to happen, but there is something scary about autonomous machines that could take out humans.

Yeah the diference is that it took nature hundreds of millions of years to get to this point while it's taking us a couple of decades

Paternal or Maternal? Cant have fatherly instincts and be a soccer mom simultaneously lol

@@yourmandom9568 I was using it kind of like "parental," but words are weird, especially gendered ones

Youre right chris… now dont panic okay… it’s behind you!

Hell of an assumption

Their passion is palpable

why have a robot to drive a normal car when we can have robot cars that are self driving?

@@martiddy you should ask yourself why not? :p

@@desjardinsjp93 Maybe we can have both I guess

We could literally use robots to terraform planets and build a dyson sphere. You bet your ass the possibilities are endless.

@@martiddy yes we can. Why have just one ahah

I'd rather meet Amica. At least you can have a conversation with her.

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I was waiting for the "ssssssss... aaaaaaaahhhh... sssssssss... aaaaaaaaah" like Peter Griffin when he falls and hurts his knee 😂🙈

@@m0arf hahaha,They'll take revenge soon on all the punishment they've been put through :D

@@Nevakonaza. they will for sure 😅and rightly so!

Who knows. Things accelerate fast and faster and some jumps are massive