Dancing Robots

[gwpriester]

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.

[Acorn]

The only thing missing was the Boston Dynamics Flying Pig.
Impressive.

Acorn

[RKissane]

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

[handrawn]

it may have been edited slightly...
but watch this, which is informative

https://youtu.be/R-PdPtqw78k

[pauland]

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

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.

[handrawn]

exactly....

[gwpriester]

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.

[Gare]

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

[wizard509]

Might I add that Boston Dynamics was bought by Hyundai for more than 2 billion, I believe.

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.


My Best,

Gary

Very interesting, I had not heard that at least not all of it. All these posts about robots are just fascinating some I had seen before but not all.

[Gare]

Very interesting, I had not heard that at least not all of it. All these posts about robots are just fascinating some I had seen before but not all.

[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.



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.....