https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EezdinoG4mk&feature=youtu.be
This behind-the-scenes video says it is choreographed and scripted. It also contains instances where things go wrong as well.
Re:Atlas robot does parkour
by shadowgovt on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:07PM
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It's interesting to see how this has progressed from their video two years ago [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LikxFZZO2sk] and one year ago [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBBaNYex3E]
Re:Atlas robot does parkour
by electricwallaby on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:19PM
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I noticed around the 50 second mark there is some fluid leaking out of the robots bum. Wonder what that could be?
Ha would be something to see it in Ninja Warrior show or something one day, needs hands.
Re:Atlas robot does parkour
by scythmic_waves on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:07PM
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That video is partly CGI, right? I can't find a smoking gun but it doesn't look entirely real.
Most likely it’s real. That said, we don’t know how many 10s-100s of takes this was done in. This single video could be the results of hundreds of hours of fine tuning parameters.
As one of the comments on the video says, that feeling is an example of the "uncanny mountain" effect.
Re:Atlas robot does parkour
by scythmic_waves on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:16PM
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I'm not so sure.
1. [EDIT: IGNORE THIS POINT] They've done this before. [1]
2. To get more specific, look at the robot's legs around 0:09-0:16. They don't seem to be moving normally.
I don't have professional video analysis chops, but I'd put some money on this being fake.
Happy be to be proven wrong, though.
EDIT: It appears I remembered this story incorrectly, and posted a link without reading it. I retract my first statement. I'll leave the link for posterity, though.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/6/17/18681682/boston-dyna...
That CGI gag was done by Corridor Digital, not Boston Dynamics.
That's a great channel, I really like their "reacts" series that comes out every Saturday. They also had a good one from Sunday about the Pentagon UFO videos.
Have you seen the behind the scenes video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EezdinoG4mk
That provides some great context, but I couldn't help finding it a little unsettling at 03:09 when one of the robots is suspended off the ground and "bleeding" a pink fluid onto the mat beneath it.
> 1. They've done this before. [1]
Your link says nothing of the sort.
To me, I like to see when they stutter or slightly-fail, since that to indicates the dynamics and real-time part of the thing, that it is not a 100% scripted thing (although the blog post mentions the engineers fine-tuning the celebratory arm-pump, to what extent is that scripted then?)