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Re:Boston Dynamics retires its legendary humanoid robot by sparky_z on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @12:14PM (#40066726)
This doesn't look like a rendered video to me at all. I'm not enough of an expert to point to specific reasons, but the lighting, reflections, shadows, etc just seem 100% real to me. I feel it in my gut.

You apparently disagree? Was there something in the video you think marks it out as CGI? Or do we just have differing gut instincts about it?

Re:Boston Dynamics retires its legendary humanoid robot by joshspankit on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:12PM (#40070620)
> the lighting, reflections, shadows, etc just seem 100% real to me. I feel it in my gut.

I’m the exact opposite. My gut says it’s rendered. The graininess, the odd chromatic aberrations, the shadows that are too clean, the “head” being way too physically clean (like if the modellers got sloppy with the thousands of pieces), something odd about the fps of the robot vs the fos of the background, and there’s something odd about the physics of how it gets up (yes, beyond it’s horror-movie sequence)

Re:Boston Dynamics retires its legendary humanoid robot by ehnto on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @11:43PM (#40072742)
The new video might help you see it.

It is a bit funny though, the company renowned for walking robots posts a video of a robot walking and many people just can't believe it.

To me it was way more surprising that they got walking (and more) working with hydraulics, a much more unwieldy and heavy technology than servos and batteries. This is obviously more refined but perhaps to me, a little less surprising and so definitely believable.

Re:Boston Dynamics retires its legendary humanoid robot by quadsteel on Thursday April 18, 2024 @10:30AM (#40076679)
Nonsense, there's nothing here that betrays a CG look. This is very obviously real footage.
Re:Boston Dynamics retires its legendary humanoid robot by joshspankit on Saturday April 20, 2024 @10:08AM (#40097445)
Odd to get downvoted for adding my perspective on why it feels rendered.

Even more odd to get a response like this that has certainty without any facts or debate.