Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/-7xvqQeoA8c?rel=0&showinfo=0&modestbranding=1&vq=hd720&autohide=1
Boston Dynamics officially unveils Handle, its "nightmare-inducing" wheeled robot
A leaked video surfaced earlier this month providing the first glimpse of Boston Dynamic's latest robot. Dubbed Handle, the advanced research robot stands 6.5 feet tall and...
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Couple this with the fact than unlike fleshy meat players, Handle doesn’t get injured and never needs to be subbed out and we have the future.
Not even when the battery's flat?
Also, they showed it going down stairs, but not up.
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@RaceProUK said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
they showed it going down stairs, but not up.
Just install some of these wherever it needs to go
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@PJH said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Meet Handle...
One question... where do I buy one?
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Google Play Store?
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@DoctorJones said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
One question... where do I buy one?
Can I ride one?
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@Zecc said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Can I ride one?
Do you weigh 100lbs or less?
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@PJH said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
In a true Bostonian setup, there is a hockey stick on the left wall
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@PJH said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
@Zecc said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Can I ride one?
Do you weigh 100lbs or less?
What's that? About 45.359 kg? I do not.
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@Zecc said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
About 45.359 kg?
It's actually closer to about 45.3592 kg.
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Fascinating. But when the fuck are robots and robot pieces for hobbyists going to start getting cheaper and/or better? Because it feels like the market has barely changed since the early 2000s.
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@Zecc said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
@DoctorJones said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
One question... where do I buy one?
Can I ride one?
Filed under: Too easy
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@PJH said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Do you weigh 100lbs or less
So ... it's a children's attraction?
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That's fine. I weigh precisely 85.000000 kg.
Wait. Someone has brought to my attention that 85.000000 is not less or equal to 45.3592.
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@Luhmann said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
So ... it's a children's attraction?
Oh yes.
https://youtu.be/0TY9TkQm6S4?t=11s
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Also, nobody has pointed out that the title of the post sounds like "meat handle"
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@DoctorJones said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Also, nobody has pointed out that the title of the post sounds like "meat handle"
I kept meaning to go to the off by one thread with that
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@Zecc said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
I weigh precisely 85.000000 kg.
I have a precisely 27.395cm cock.
*precisely, but not accurately
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@TimeBandit said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
@PJH said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
In a true Bostonian setup, there is a hockey stick on the left wall
At Boston Dynamics, the stick has other uses.
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@Maciejasjmj said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
I have a precisely 27.395cm cock.
The largest can get to be around 90 cm.
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The thought of one of these bearing down on me at full speed is truly horrifying
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@bb36e I can imagine thinking "This is so cool!" while its brutally murdering me
In all seriousness though, robotics has been going, what, 70 years tops? Evolution took a few billion years to get to bipedal motion; robotics took less than 60 years. It's a terrifyingly amazing pace of development.
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@RaceProUK said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Evolution took a few billion years to get to bipedal motion; robotics took less than 60 years
Robotics copied us - we should have patented it
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@bb36e said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
The thought of one of these bearing down on me at full speed is truly horrifying
Just run through a muddy spot.
That will work, until they fit it with firearms.
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@RaceProUK said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Evolution took a few billion years to get to bipedal motion; robotics took less than 60 years. It's a terrifyingly amazing pace of development.
Except for robotics effectively having a top-to-bottom blueprint of how bipedal motion works. If all you can do is try and evaluate billions of sequences until you finally stumble upon something that works, of course it's going to take a while.
"A few billion years" isn't that much when you consider just how many possible DNA combinations are there, and how unlikely it is to stumble upon one that actually manages to take its first figurative breath, and then to get one that's just a bit better, and so on. And 60 years isn't all that fast when you consider we had the solution to the problem from the start and all we needed is to implement it.
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@Polygeekery said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Just run through a muddy spot.
Or climb some steps.
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@Polygeekery said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Just run through a muddy spot.
and come out topless?
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@RaceProUK said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Evolution took a few billion years to get to bipedal motion; robotics took less than 60 years. It's a terrifyingly amazing pace of development.
Humans can design systems in 10 minutes that it would take evolution millions, if ever. Things like a fucking wheel.
And humans are just the bare minimum of intelligence that can do such things. Now imagine if you took a human brain, fixed all the extreme design issues that plague its cognitive systems, made the neurons >100,000x faster (they run at about 100Hz now, so it's reasonable) and a hundred times smaller, and then ran a million of them in parallel.
How long do you think it would take that to go from zero to a walking robot?
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@anonymous234 said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
How long do you think it would take that to go from zero to a
walkingsex robot?You're overestimating the maturity of the average human being.
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@TimeBandit said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
@Polygeekery said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Just run through a muddy spot.
Or climb some steps.
Just ask the Daleks...
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@Maciejasjmj said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
You were sayin'...
I thought it went without saying..
All they needed was a shark to jump over.
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@Maciejasjmj ELEVATE
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@PJH also, did they already charge you for the image?
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@PJH said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
"nightmare-inducing" wheeled robot
Main thing that makes all the Boston Dynamics robots look so completely weird and wrong is that they insist on putting their knees on backwards. Why do they do that?
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@flabdablet said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Why do they do that?
They're secretly building an army of combat ostriches.
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I can't even decide which joke to make! The name makes me want to do this:
Then I get this:
@RaceProUK said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Also, they showed it going down stairs, but not up.
While, in all honesty, the shape reminds me of:
(that's the failed prototype from Robocop 2 for you who don't recognize it).
Bah, fuck it!
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/2455483/robby-the-robot-o.gif
EDIT: And I got
'd on the Daleks, fair 'nuff
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@PJH Sure, you're safe climbing a ladder. No need for additional defenses.
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@anonymous234 said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
made the neurons >100,000x faster (they run at about 100Hz now, so it's reasonable)
Yeah, but the asynchronous nature makes them perfect for the decentralized grid computing model they run, neh?
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@flabdablet said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
@PJH said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
"nightmare-inducing" wheeled robot
Main thing that makes all the Boston Dynamics robots look so completely weird and wrong is that they insist on putting their knees on backwards. Why do they do that?
Because they started with animals that also had their joints "backwards" and didn't want to waste effort rewriting their calibration algorithms to work with knees that bent the other way?
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@Zecc said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
That's fine. I weigh precisely 85.000000 kg.
Wait. Someone has brought to my attention that 85.000000 is not less or equal to 45.3592.
You weigh 85 gigagrams?
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I feel like most of the scariness of Boston Dynamics robots is that the servos make a really loud scary noise. They should invest in inventing quieter servos, or at least servos that make a less scary noise.
Also, they should put more googly eyes on their robots like they did for Spot Mini.
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Is it only me that doesn't find it scary at all? Much less so than humans.
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@CarrieVS must be that, being a cat, you can just climb a tree to escape
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@TimeBandit Certainly a better defence than curling into a spiky ball, since robots can't feel pain (and my spines wouldn't pierce the metal and plastic anyway).
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@ben_lubar They sell to the military, being scary is a feature.
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@ben_lubar said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
I feel like most of the scariness of Boston Dynamics robots is that the servos make a really loud scary noise
...as do the tiny high-revving internal combustion engines they use.
I want to see them make a pig-shaped robot called Hawg that sounds like a Harley.
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@anonymous234 said in Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]:
Now imagine if you took a human brain, fixed all the extreme design issues that plague its cognitive systems, made the neurons >100,000x faster (they run at about 100Hz now, so it's reasonable) and a hundred times smaller, and then ran a million of them in parallel.
We're working on it! Really. But it's really very difficult indeed.
I'd guess the world is about 5–10 years out from having a full real-time simulation of a mouse brain (assuming that the statistical models aren't missing anything critical) running on specialised supercomputers. Human brains are a few orders of magnitude larger than that, but probably mostly not that much more complicated other than by virtue of the sheer increase in scale. OTOH, everyone serious in that area is looking at how to really scale things up to that sort of level, so I'd guess maybe 10–15 years after that, depending on funding.
FWIW, dropping power consumption per synapse (the actual critical measure) below that of the mammalian brain is astonishingly difficult. Unlikely to happen with digital hardware any time soon.
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@ben_lubar I correct myself, wikipedia say some of their bots got shelved because of the noise.
I guess it's not an easily solvable problem, dunno why. Are they pneumatic or something?
Meet the 6'5 robot with a 48" vertical that will take over the NBA one day
