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I’m not sure if they could picked a creeper way for it to stand up.
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Holy shit those movements are disturbing.
I guess they want to emphasize how much more the electric joints can move. Basically they flex with flexibility.
so wait i can now do cowgirl and reverse cowgirl at the same time? and the face is already a glam dune bucket?
Some robots have reach, others have flexibility.
Probably because we all know what their primary use will be… These will be soldiers.
BD’s ability to make highly capable robots is high. Their ability to make creepy robots is unmatched.
They just had to make it look like a Geth.
Shepard Commander o7
Damn that’s both insanely impressive and terrifying at the same time!
I see one of those things chasing me in the street I’m praying to Gods I don’t even believe inI for one welcome our talented and benevolent machine overlords. I suggest they use emoji faces on the head instead of diving into the uncanny valley with some silicone nightmare fuel.
I prefer just a centered green/red LED in the middle of the face.
Watching this right after an episode of Fallout hits different.
The real question is whether BD engeniers instructed the robot to get up that specific way or instructed the robot to get up using the most effective way
Yeah, that makes sense now. Shenanigans were clearly going on when they specifically said they were retiring Hydraulic Atlas in the last video.
This one is even creepier than the last. Well done!
Old Atlas looked way more cool
Goddammit, this is so well done it almost looks fake.
The same with the old Atlas, first time I saw it.Jesus that’s creepy as hell the way it gets up and contorts all around, but also really cool somehow…
Seeing it change directions by independently rotating each leg was really something too.
Why did they have to do it like that?? Loool creepy freaks
I fucking love robotics. It looks sick but the way it gets up is like something from a nightmare.
The rotation from the back to the front with the torso and it’s head just had me thinking about some dead creature that had been hit by a car and just stood back up.
Also where is the back to the future gif “I’ve seen this one before it’s a classic”…just terminator on the screen.
Can it do everything the old Atlas could do?
They’re not specific about that but I would guess not:
https://bostondynamics.com/blog/electric-new-era-for-atlas/
They say it’ll be stronger and have a broader range of motion but I would suspect that using electric motors rather than hydraulics means the more explosive leaping and acrobatics are out. The old Atlas was just a test platform but this seems to be intended as an actual product.
That makes sense. The new form factor alone is impressive.
Can’t wait for those things to replace even the last human jobs in factories, just for humans to not benefit from that at all. Just like pretty much all of the other industrialized machinery that was once touted to save us time and make working irrelevant.
Typed on a computer whose components were manufactured by robots.
No reason to act willfully obtuse.
I’m pointing out a very obvious way in which automation does indeed help benefit humans in general. We have access to sophisticated products at very low prices compared to what it would be like if all this stuff was made “by hand.”
That’s cool, but you’re still ignoring the point I was making and interjected your own.
I’m addressing part of your point. You said:
Just like pretty much all of the other industrialized machinery that was once touted to save us time and make working irrelevant.
With the clear implication that industrialized machinery hadn’t saved us time. That’s not the case.
I’m assuming it’s very new, so probably not yet.
