[Ipg-smz] This robot is freaking amazing.

[Dana Blankenhorn]

This reminds me of the "concept cars" that Detroit is always bringing out
and never making. I want to see them make something that can sell.

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:26 AM arnieswap at gmail.com <arnieswap at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> Sally
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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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