[ExI] darpa robot olympics

[John Grigg]

I bet we will not be laughing at the 2025 Darpa robot olympics....  At
least for these tasks....


John

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:01 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> Anyone else following the DARPA robot Olympics this weekend?
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgt6FPWU2Lc
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> The droids need to drive a vehicle a short distance, open a door, open a
> valve, pick up a hand tool and cut a hole in a wall.  The great
> grandfathers of C3PO have not been all that impressive to watch.  We will
> not be seeing robot pole vaulting anytime soon.
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> However, I was at the first DARPA challenge for self driving cars.  It
> didn’t take long to go from that dismal failure to the Google cars.
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> Fun fails:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_QPGcjrh0
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> spike
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