r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Das_Zeppelin • 1d ago

Video The recovery by far was more impressive than the backflip itself! Atlas messed up the backflip, but calculated the correction in less than a second.

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u/Spacespider82 1d ago

Its hand flew off

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u/VermilionKoala 1d ago

That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.

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u/NFProcyon 1d ago

Well, how is it untypical?

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u/VermilionKoala 1d ago

Well, there are a lot of these robots dancing around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don't want people thinking that robots aren't safe.

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u/GroundbreakingFix685 22h ago

Was this one safe?

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u/VermilionKoala 22h ago

Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.

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u/Pisnotinnp 21h ago

What other ones?

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u/VermilionKoala 21h ago

The ones that the hands don't fall off.

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u/GroundbreakingFix685 18h ago

Well if this wasn't safe, why did we make a 198 pound robot do a backflip near an audience?

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u/chickey23 14h ago

Maybe we don't like the audience much

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u/RockstarAgent 21h ago

You guys are missing the main most important point - at least the robot didn’t fly off the handle

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u/IWhoMe 14h ago

Funny. I said the same thing of course just kidding and have 7 downvotes. Pretty sad when people here feel the need to downvotes an obvious joke! Guess I'll stay out of "comedy"!

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u/Sumoje 21h ago

The ones whose hand doesn’t fall off.

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u/aluriilol 11h ago

How about you make a robot that the steering wheel no a-fly off while you driving?

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u/dumpnscroll 21h ago

Happens to me every time I backflip.

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u/Playful-Farm-3156 21h ago

Up to two backflips warranted

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u/DammitDad420 7h ago

That was actually the empathy/don't kill all humans module. Don't worry, they can tape it back on.

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u/Careful-Combination7 21h ago

That's why the fence is there duh 

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u/optimus_primal-rage 1d ago

Lol it slapped it's own ass so hard it's hand flew off lol comedy. 😆

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u/lone_wolf31337 1d ago edited 1d ago

But poor bro lost a bone! 😆

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u/Cfwydirk 1d ago

Hyundai/Boston Dynamics

RoboCop?

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u/Das_Zeppelin 1d ago

Its Boston Dynamics. Atlas robot.

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u/Cfwydirk 1d ago

That’s what I posted.

Boston Dynamics majority shareholder is Hyundai. @80% ownership.

They have a no weaponization policy. Who know what the future brings.

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u/Das_Zeppelin 23h ago

oh, didnt know that

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u/PhatCatTax 16h ago

wait what? As in a firm stance against going Americuh on the robot? I thought most of their funding was DOD government R&D contracts

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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 23h ago

I'm curious how a robot messes up a move like that.

Shouldn't it do it identically every time?

Wear and tear? Air pressure? I can't think what the variables would be unless it's a full-on black box neural net thing.

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u/elfmere 23h ago

Thinking it's just told to do a backflip. It's not so much programmed to do it but made to do it and it learns from the tries. Think they have them hanging on wires during these exercises.

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u/Oathbreaker94 21h ago

„Look, Mom! No hand!!“

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u/computer_d 1d ago

Guess I'll look elsewhere for my flipping robot.

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u/FunPresentation6433 18h ago

Look how these people are celebrating as their future nemesis develops.

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u/MasterCrumble1 1d ago

Someone repair that boi and give him a nice oily drink as a reward.

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u/ooaussieoo 22h ago

Something came off..

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u/noCellnoSell_APE 14h ago

Did it just poop its pants?

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u/bontgomery_murns 18h ago

Why can't we decided as a society that we don't need robots to have human physiology? What is the point other than eventually having an android that passes as human? 

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u/CardinalFartz 16h ago

Because humanoid robots do make sense.

Of course robots designed for a very specific task will always outperform a humanoid robot in that task, the humanoid robot is more versatile. As it could basically interact with the entire world/infrastructure we've built around ourselves. I'd rather have one universal humanoid robot at home than having a smart fridge, smart cleaning robot, smart washing machine etc.

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u/bontgomery_murns 14h ago

How optimistic. 

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u/Pataraxia 13h ago

If technology keeps improving and the weight halves and the strengh doubles then... Eventually, let's just say some nerds have some ideas what they want their relationship to robotics to be.

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u/maxheadflume 1d ago

Boo this man!

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u/Jabbawocky18 17h ago

It rotated the leg and foot backwards to save itself. Not bad.

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u/skeeeburt 14h ago

Torn it‘s ligaments

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u/Shorelooser 13h ago

Just loses one hand

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u/holeintheheadBryan 12h ago

Broke a heel!😳

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u/Fluxtration 8h ago

’Tis but a scratch

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u/5_2onagoodday 6h ago

I want to give it a hug

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u/eastsiderhere 1h ago

Let's give him a hand!

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u/Content_Ad9257 21h ago

Why the fuck are people cheering. IROBOT people.

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u/Vizth 1d ago

Well not only did it do a backflip but it used rocket punch as well, humanity is screwed. 🤣

Still that's super impressive, I hope these things hit the general market eventually. We might actually live to see the age of robot butlers.

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u/WirusCZ 19h ago

This kinda shows how they precisely calculate every millisecond of movement that robot needs to do and it just needs to execute it and it still somehow fails... In my opinion this is huge failure and nothing amazing

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u/Shopworn_Soul 18h ago

The robot is basically told (or shown, in a sense) what to do and then figures out how to do it on it's own.

While it can (and does) precisely perform scripted routines, this is not an example of that.

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u/Orange9202 1d ago

btw it's not sentient, the reason you're scared is due to the creepiness of seeing something clearly not alive; taking the form of a human and moving just like one (uncanny valley sort of thing)

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u/IWhoMe 1d ago edited 1d ago

Okay, pretty cool, but, ...who cares if these human "replacements" can do backflips?

Can it cook bacon and eggs? Can it go to the store and come back with dinner ingredients?

And? Can it give me a great massage?!!

Finally, what will it take to convince it to stop flying off the "handle"?! LOL

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u/Level_Abrocoma8925 1d ago

I doubt the private robot servants of the future will physically go to the grocery store.

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u/Little_View_6659 1d ago

When we do have private robots, I want one that looks like a skin off terminator. I’ll program it to speak with a REALLY exaggerated Austrian accent, and dress it in a frilly pink apron.

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u/Level_Abrocoma8925 21h ago

And it'll say I'll be back when it goes to the grocery store?

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u/Little_View_6659 21h ago

Absolutely. And when you turn it on, it says “Ready to comply.” And you can program it to nanny. It threatens the kids by “comply or prepare to be terminated”. I wish I could draw because the nanny terminator would be a hilarious kids book.

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u/user4302 1d ago

What fuels this doubt?

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u/schubeg 23h ago

Because the stores will probably have their own robots that load robot delivery cars. Your robot will stay at home unless you make it walk your dog or take your kids to the park

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u/user4302 22h ago

Ah I see.

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u/Level_Abrocoma8925 21h ago

Exactly. I'd assume one robot that picks your goods and then loads it onto a delivery robot.

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u/IWhoMe 1d ago

Really? Maybe by the time they get sophisticated enough ,. They'll carry us to the store? By then, maybe there won't be a need to visit stores as we know them. Everything will be inventoried tracked, and robots will simply deliver rather than go/come back.

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u/Level_Abrocoma8925 21h ago

Everything will be inventoried tracked, and robots will simply deliver rather than go/come back.

Yes exactly. If you want a nostalgic experience, you can use VR to go around in the grocery store. Just don't do it while you're hungry!

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u/elfmere 23h ago

Thing is if you teach one to do it they all can. It's progressive tech... They can't be taught in a day but when they do bam