[ExI] Boston Dynamics: New Robots Now Fight Back

[SR Ballard]

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> On Jun 17, 2019, at 11:29 AM, <spike at rainier66.com> <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of SR Ballard
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Boston Dynamics: New Robots Now Fight Back
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> I suppose it says a lot about me that I feel “distressed” that they are “abusing” the robot.
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> SR Ballard
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> We all felt that SR.  We cheered when the robot began to whoop ass, the particular asses which genuinely needed whoopin.
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> I think that video was somehow faked, don’t know how.  Looking at it from the POV of a controls guy, pushing or hitting the biped bot with a hockey stick isn’t so much an assault as it is a random input, which requires a compensation loop.
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> If Boston Dynamics really did get an actual robot to do all this, I am really impressed with them.
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> I would still like to see those guys get a bot-delivered ass whoopin of course, but once I think it thru, everything they did there makes sense.
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> spike
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