Meet Handle, the robot [Boston Dynamics]
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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?
I got curious and looked this up. Turns out, it depends on how you define "knees."
https://line-of-action.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/catfoot.jpg
As for why to build a robot that way, I would guess it keeps the legs out of the way of the arms when it needs to work with objects on the ground.
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I think they just like making robots that occupy the uncanny valley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww