I was 100% certain that this was computer generated animation. I was wrong. This shows how sophisticated robotry has become. https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw
Robots dancing to the rock song, Do You Love Me?
Something happy in this joyless world.
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I was 100% certain that this was computer generated animation. I was wrong. This shows how sophisticated robotry has become. https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw
Robots dancing to the rock song, Do You Love Me?
Something happy in this joyless world.
The only thing missing was the Boston Dynamics Flying Pig.
Impressive.
Acorn
I don't think this is real. I am thinking CGI.
The way certain robots move does not look right with their design. The yellow robot is what makes me think it is more CGI. I have seen on television robots similar to the first ones be they all had control cables to them for controlling how they operated. And they did not have this anywhere close to this type of movement.
Ray
it may have been edited slightly...
but watch this, which is informative
https://youtu.be/R-PdPtqw78k
I'm afraid you're wrong Ray, they have become very sophisticated. Meet the soldier of the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhND7Mvp3f4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq6mJOktIvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKdfL7G3A
We are seeing how far the military will change - these and drones will change combat forever.
exactly....
I had seen this questioned on Snopes, so I revisited the Snopes article who said it was for real. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/real-dancing-robots/
I also felt some of the moves with the robots balancing on one foot had to be computer generated. Boston Robotics is a cutting edge company.
that it is...
I see a couple of places where the video may have been edited, but cgi it is not; the materials and the technology and the expertise are here...
one of the things that makes me wonder what the world will be like when the grandchildren, currently locked out of uni, are my age
in the sixties I read a scifi short story about a robot policemen who were programmed to stop crime and to learn for themselfs what constituted a crime and what the punishment should be
people were executed for switching off their cars because the robots considered that 'murder'
Have a look at the ATLAS robot performing parkour ... granted it's Simple parkour, but the balance and coordination are there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSjKoEva5bg
We get to see those robots acting in a benign manner. Imagine if you wanted to storm a compound and sent a few of them ahead of ground troops. Guns may not even be required.
They look large and heavy right now, but if the humanoid robot ran from a small battery pack it may only require endurance for ten to fifteen minutes to do it's work. The "dog" could just have a machine gun on it's back.
These things are deadly and first assaults of the future will involve kit like this coupled with drones. I think small AI powered drones could take out a compound in very short order.
China is probably the leader in Drone technology. Haven't seen much in terms of robotics but I'm sure they are there.
I wonder who makes the components for the robots that we've seen?
Traditional armed forces are beginning to look very outdated. One day we'll be able to have a conversation with our speakers, things move so fast..
Paul - Your question about who makes these robots, their parts, etc., is probably answered here https://www.bostondynamics.com/about
Not entirely sure it does answer that question.
For a lot of electronic components and electric motors, China is the principle supplier. I have a 3D printer and it like just about every 3D printer I know of uses components that are sourced in China. Very few supply chains are not dependent on China.
Anyway, it's a bit off-topic for your post and verging on the controversial.
We kind of need the world's robots to adhere to the Laws of Robotics as defined by Isacc Asimov.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
which implies a level of sentience I would rather they did not have ;)
I feel that very soon, your Cintique will be critiquing your work and offering "helpful" advice.. ..and if you disagree, his friend from Boston Dynamics will be visiting to explain in detail why the Cintique is right. You will not be required to dance at any stage..
;-)
see this too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP9NCMMqxCs
here is another but I am not convinced they are robots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hh3_mJJJNw
Might I add that Boston Dynamics was bought by Hyundai for more than 2 billion, I believe.
The good news is the 'bots are not going to stop. Hyundai has stated that their uber-field is going to be mobility: cars, yeah, but also land delivery systems, handicap accessibility, automated deliveries, just getting something or someone from point a to point b.
Admirable.
And those 'bots can dance better than I do.
My Best,
Gary
[Also by the way...] We're not yet at the moment the late Stephen Hawking talked about and dreaded—a self-aware artificial intelligent being—not in 2021, not for a (too short) while. If you've watched "Sophia" on YouTube clips, it's impressive but at the same time a bit of a stunt. You can still clearly "hear" the programmer behind the 'bot. I'm also impressed that Boston Dynamic could make a wireless robot who can maneuver the way we're shown.
Last year seemed like a propitious time for both Popular Science and the New York Times to publish those coffee table Special Editions... on AI. And the consensus right now is that there won't be intelligent Killer Robots for a while. Right now, Artificial Intelligence is pretty, comparatively stupid.
That said, there's a trend now to put rudimentary A.I. in commercial software, especially Adobe products and some brilliant cottage industries. Is it revolutionary and will change the way you work? Erm: no. But it will indeed help enhance your product without upping your skill set.
A research lab has a place online that will let you screw around with an implementation of their A.I., called Artbreeder, which uses Generative Adversarial Networks ("GAN") to mess with your work after it confuses your mind. It is hard to get anything resembling art or CG out of it without doing some reading, but I hit a payoff after about 45 minutes of failures and additional reading, and an Advil cocktail.
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Hey, given that it's free, no one is giving away advanced tech, and I'm not the sharpest pencil in the tool shed, I don't think this sucks.
I don't know what's behind the engine, but these two "portraits" depended on no user images, and yet look uncanny (valley) in photorealism.
I'm programmed to exit now.....
When ever I see advancements in robotics, I see more humans out of work.
as in the story I referenced in post #8 above - think it was in robert sheckley's untouched by human hands, but that's from memory and as we live in a chaotic book depositry cum studio rather than a house it may take some finding to check...Quote:
a self-aware artificial intelligent being
that would place it in the early '50s
so much written then is coming to pass...
I think the original idea was to create automated machinery to allow humans to avoid tedious and dangerous jobs.
Today, right now, AI machines are used in farm fields to sow seeds and reap fruit. That's a job no one wants for what it pays, right?
The humans versus machines scenario was perhaps shown best in the play "RUR"—Rossum's Universal Robots, the firt time the word "robot was used, coined.
Big political play. Shame Cameron hasn't tried to re-imagine it.
1921. I think this is an original version of the play.
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automated is fine in itself... but you must make sure that someone is in control and that the AI has been thought through.... otherwise like micky mouse you may end up with [in his case] very wet feet... and a serious problem
yes it is the story is called watchbird and still well worth a read - the whole book is...
now I have the title I can reference it - it is available here as a Project Gutenberg EBook you can read for free:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2957...-h/29579-h.htm
Thanks for posting that - instantly I am reminded of the great Science Fiction that I read avidly as a teenager.
I've only just read a few paragraphs and it's so easy to imagine the characters and the atmosphere. I guess that's what reading too much 1950's SciFi and watching American TV and the Outer Limits does for you!
It's very powerful and already I could see it would make a great period piece with a resonance for today.
We are well on the way to making the imagined horrors of the 1950s a reality. That can be your uplifting thought for today..
yep I remember the yellow jacketed gollancz scifi books in our local library, I must have read everyone from Poul Anderson to Roger Zelazny and points in between and beyond.... reading is an eduction in itself if it makes you think and use your imagination...
The first Sci-fi paperback I bought when I was just into the double-digit ages: Asimov's, "I, Robot". I enjoyed it so much I plunked down a week's savings—paperbacks were something like 35˘ for Ace paperbacks up to $1 & change for Penguin and other "fat" books—for the Foundation Trilogy. Way above my comprehension skills, the set is deteriorating in the basement somewhere; I thought I'd wait a few years before trying to get into again. I see HBO or some other streaming network has tried to make a series out of it.
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I really enjoyed do androids dream of electric sheep ... blade runner not so much... maybe if I had not read the book first... films can rarely do justice to the book, and it's a different medium, they have to treat it to suit
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Me too, in fact I told that story in speech class.
I came across this robots.txt file that is quite amusing if you understand what a robots.txt file does:
A homage to Azimov's Three Laws of Robotics.Quote:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /harming/humans
Disallow: /harming/machines
Disallow: /risking/own/existence
Disallow: /edit/
Acorn
strangely azimov, like heinlein was not so much a favorites of mine... in a way its the emphasis on accuracy rather then imagination, like wading through forsyth's pages long rendition of how the rifle was put togther and set up.. yawn, that's not storytelling its lazy padding [imo] and it does not highten the tension, it induces boredom, unless you love the micro-management of the plot...
I admit to liking heinlein's by his bootstraps because I was a sucker for time travel paradox.. but stranger in a strange land was, well verbose
which brings we back to azimov's I robot - in a way this was not sci-fi to me, it was a morality tale dressed up in sci-fi clothing... no imagination in the sheckley sense..
I read "Watchbird" and it was a great read.
It addresses a lot of concepts that we are really trying to come to grips with today - not about robotics, but how we treat animals, how we treat people, etc..
I read a ton of SciFi as a teenager, often preferring short stories to novels.
Here's my little list that made an impact.
The Invisible Man - with a huge fear of crowds, you don't get that from the films.
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
This book really stunned me as a teenager, I was amazed at the depth of the book (it examines the arrogance of man to think that we can understand everything) and it scared me. Very definitely to be read not just watched. If anything of the films the Russian one is the best. I was fortunate enough to see a wonderful stage version in London a couple of years back.
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem.
I loved "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" - Heinlein - particularly it's quirk on evolving artificial intelligence.
As an adult I read "Starship Troopers" and discovered it was really about citizenship rather than anything else. I was impressed - again the film takes the superficial subject rather than the actual subject.
We read these books and see the general subject, but often these Scifi books use the escapism that going to another future brings to talk about issues that exist in real life. Watchbird is superficially quite a simple story but it touches on a lot of big issues around what constitutes murder.
Scifi was always my love as a teenager. I then discovered wonderful Ghost stories from Conan Doyle. Today I mostly read autobiographies.
Here's my tips for some incredible autobiographies.
"The Lonely Sea and the Sky" by Francis Chichester.
"The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer (somewhat controversial)
"The Outsider" by Fredrick Forsyth.
hg wells fan then :)
stansilaw lem's the futurological congress a 1970's ascerbic satire of the soviet bloc, is an all time favorite of mine, I only wish I could read the original in polish - the way he blended realitiy and illusion is just wonderful
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fu...gical_Congress
I've always been a sci-fi fan ...
I think my favourite series was the LENSMAN series by E. E. SMITH
Paul Auster - In the Country of Last Things - Leviathan - Hand to Mouth...pretty much anything by him is a bit special.
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sorry, but he was born in Poland in Lwów
ok that part of Poland is now part of Ukraine, Lviv - but when he was born it was Poland, he was Polish; when the Soviet [Union] Ukraine annexed Lwów at the end of WWII the familiy 'were resettled' to Kraków
;)
nice try with the spam :)
ah you have been zapped ...