[Ipg-smz] This robot is freaking amazing.

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Fri Oct 12 14:25:37 UTC 2018


Current science fiction writers are so poorly educated.

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:24 AM Sally Wiener Grotta <
sally at sallywienergrotta.com> wrote:

> It's body/space perception and coordination is remarkable. Just yesterday,
> I was having lunch with three well established science fiction writers who
> were claiming that it would be a long time before robots would be able to
> take specific products off shelves in warehouses. I told them the
> technology already exists. The Parkour Atlas has elements that would be
> useful for those kind of tasks.
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> On 2018/10/12 07:26, Dana Blankenhorn wrote:
>
> The Boston Dynamics robots are great, but no one has found an application
> for them. Even Google couldn't. Now they're owned by Softbank.
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 8:04 AM Christine Hall <christine at fossforce.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I had to keep reminding myself there's not a person in there.
>>
>>
>> https://fossbytes.com/watch-boston-dynamics-humanoid-robot-do-parkour-like-a-pro/
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