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Re:Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video] by option_greek on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:20AM (#13752677)
What technologies do they use to do the balancing. I heard earlier that they don't use any machine learning at all. So what do they use to achieve this level of robustness.
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Re:Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video] by jonnydark on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:33AM (#13752729)
The balancing stems from an inverted-pendulum problem, and that's something that's reasonably well understood in robotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pendulum

Of course it's more complicated than that because it looks as though the centre of mass can move and the legs can bend and are not rigid, but it would make more sense approaching this from a kinematics perspective rather than a ML one.

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