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Thats wild. Even if people were controlling them like Elon's that'd still be wild. The US is so far behind we're fucked. Finally.
Unless they're pressing a button to execute a pre planned movement it would be more impressive honestly
I figure either way it's impressive, because the robot has to compensate live for things like not landing exactly the same way the mocap artist did, has to be able to quickly, powerfully, and precisely engage all of its motors without failure, basically all of the hard parts no matter what. It wouldn't surprise me if there's spinning gyros or something in there to help them keep balance and increase the "margin of error".
What is super impressive though is that in the drunken boxing part, the robots movements were mostly completely in sync but they 'stumbled' a bit at different times. So it can't be 100% preplanned movements, there must be some internal processing/ decision making that allows for slightly separate outcomes. Unless they programmed in those tiny stumbles at different times, but I'd rather assume that if each robot performed a movement 100 times it wouldnt always be EXACTLY the same, just like if a human was doing it. Of course that would also be the case if it was actual mocap but that would be crazy too.
Yeah I wonder if these are autonomous, looks like it from my view, but I don't know squat about robots.
When the kids jump over the poles, the kid in front doesn't jump high enough to clear theirs. The bot reacts, either by actively dropping the far end or allowing the kid's weight to push it down while still maintaining control. You can see another kid in the background make their jump and their partner keeps the pole more or less level. Pretty neat.
Performance could be programmed in with motion capture and the robot does its best to follow the routine? Seems tough to manually animate that stuff. I also don't know shit about robots.
From what I remember watching in a robot video I think Boston dynamics did several years back, their approach wasn't to try to fully program movements, but rather a desired outcome, and then have the robot run through and attempt it hundreds of times making incremental adjustments and changes. So the robots probably have the routine programmed, but have internal processing and decision making on how to accomplish that movement. That might be why theres very minute differences noticable in each robots moves despite being 99.9% in sync. It's most noticeable in the drunken boxing part.
Nah it's cos they got the robots drunk