<div dir="ltr"><div>I bet we will not be laughing at the 2025 Darpa robot olympics.... At least for these tasks....<br><br><br></div>John<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:01 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Anyone else following the DARPA robot Olympics this weekend?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgt6FPWU2Lc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgt6FPWU2Lc</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Fun fails:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_QPGcjrh0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_QPGcjrh0</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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