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Now All We Need is the Queen Alien
GordonMcComb
Posts: 3,366
in Robotics
Jeff Bezos doing his best Ellen Ripley impression:
I don't know what all the fuss is about. I built one just like it this morning before breakfast.
I don't know what all the fuss is about. I built one just like it this morning before breakfast.
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If this is eventually going to walk un-tethered. No matter how much confidence he has in it's abilities and safety, it is a long way down, if you fall on your face.
Yes, it looks like a takeback from a Transformers movie, but the overall practicality is there. Exosuits are the future.
Call me then and it's my treat at FiveGuys!
Lest you forget Jeff Bezos is the guy who owns a space exploration company where the rocket lands back on earth the way it left. Thought I'd never see that in my lifetime, except in old 50s sci-fi movies.
If they can do this, they can balance a hunk of metal on two legs. Why, BD has already shown how it's done, and that's the company Bezos is thinking of buying (if Toyota doesn't beat him to it).
I'll take mine medium-rare, thanks very much.
Doesn't Google own Boston Dynamics now?
My turn, and we can have the rover pick up for us.
Sold! We can watch any of these movies while we eat!
There's no need to make all machines autonomous in cases where size and weight can be a disadvantage to safety. Too, just as human-operated combat robots are more effective at destruction (and fun to watch) than autonomous robots, exoskeletons provide a better melding of human intuition, creative problem solving, and hydraulic strength.
Publison, yes Google (actually Alphabet) owns BD now, but they're on record as wanting to sell.
Lest we forget:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Nelson_(plumber)
You guy's in CA have all the fun.
Has it always been that way, or did Wikipedia change their format. I had originally posted that link, but because I couldn't get specific with it, I changed it to a YouTube link instead.
Removing the brackets on plumber, and adding every symbol between words that would work, only brings up a page of no results.
Use the link icon to add URL tags.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Nelson_(plumber)
I usually use the tags to add links to specific words. Here's the same link but just using the the guys name. Shawn Nelson
If you press the "Quote" button you can see the added URL tags.
I personally don't remember this incident. I'll need to read the above linked articles to see what it was all about.
Assistive robotics is the future. While autonomous machines are the ones we see as "real" robots, I feel there is greater near-term potential for truly innovative technologies involving using robots as "amplifiers" for human mobility, intuition, and guidance. A good current example is the Da Vinci surgical robot. The value of the Da Vinci is well documented.
Bruton demonstrates that exoskeletons don't have to be the skip loaders from Aliens. A robotic frame that can help a paralyzed person get around in a bipedal world would be a life changer for these folks. Yes, they already have these in limited degree, but they're not yet commercial products in this country. It's shameful we don't have more to show for our R&D.
Add some cameras yanked off that Google self-driving car, and you give that exoskeleton vision. Now it can autonomously navigate hallways for those people with various forms of palsy and other degenerative nerve diseases. Imagine the improvement in quality of life for these people. No more 24-hour assistance. They can do more for themselves, and that's a basic human desire.
I'm all for giving robots brains, but I believe we limit our destiny by not considering -- without our becoming the Borg -- how machines can accentuate what we already have, making us Better. Stronger. Faster.
"It's the wood that makes it good." Newman
Still a nice puppeteering rig, much like "Walking with Dinosaurs".