A very cool bot with unusual parallelogram legs. LIKE, unless this means that Terminator/Judgement Day will originate from Oregon State instead of Boston Dynamics. Plenty of related videos.
That is pretty spiffy! They keep throwing things at these robots.....I'm sure they have connections to "the cloud". Once something goes into the cloud, it can't be deleted. They will rule the day!!!
There is quite a collection of videos on this project. The obstacle course video is interesting in showing some step recovery movements. The dodge ball video has a hidden message on how to disable them.
I think he's tethered so if he has a failure of something simple, he won't fall completely and suffer more severe damage just from the fall. For example, in the dodge ball video, they turn him off accidentally and he ends up hanging by his tether. It would be a shame to have serious damage caused just because he gets powered off.
A lot of the Boston Dynamic guys are tethered for some testing and untethered for other testing. Some times it appears to be power or telemetry but other times, it's just safety. The BD stuff is mostly mature enough now that it appears to run untethered outside of the lab.
They don't completely trust it to stay upright and I imagine it has a hard time staying upright when it's first powered on and when it's powered off.
Edit: Rick beat me to it.
I think you're right....they don't completely trust it. In BD's case, when they are out in public, untethered isn't a concern in a target rich setting. In the lab, though, it's nothing but BD people if there is a "malfunction".
EDIT: After I closed this, I just realized that erco is now off working in his lab on the single servo, BS1 brained, parallelogram legged, figure-8 racing robot while I'm making stupid comments....the old distracting thread trick!
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There is quite a collection of videos on this project. The obstacle course video is interesting in showing some step recovery movements. The dodge ball video has a hidden message on how to disable them.
Good find!
A lot of the Boston Dynamic guys are tethered for some testing and untethered for other testing. Some times it appears to be power or telemetry but other times, it's just safety. The BD stuff is mostly mature enough now that it appears to run untethered outside of the lab.
They don't completely trust it to stay upright and I imagine it has a hard time staying upright when it's first powered on and when it's powered off.
Edit: Rick beat me to it.
I think you're right....they don't completely trust it. In BD's case, when they are out in public, untethered isn't a concern in a target rich setting. In the lab, though, it's nothing but BD people if there is a "malfunction".
EDIT: After I closed this, I just realized that erco is now off working in his lab on the single servo, BS1 brained, parallelogram legged, figure-8 racing robot while I'm making stupid comments....the old distracting thread trick!
It looks like the hip joints rotate around a point within the body of the robot.