Huh… the first video is a fiction filmed with a human actor, motion capture and overlaying the 3D robot on it. As for Boston Dynamics’ robots, they are impressive but I still wonder what their commercial viability is, as in, what can they do that it’s worth what they cost and cheaper than just hiring Joe Fleshandbone to do the same?
“…and here, our 1.2 million $ janitor! Nevermind we could hire a human janitor for 60,000 hours for the same cost!”
(Dog robot “Spot” retails at $ 75,000, and box mover robot “Stretch” has no disclosed retail price… but I really doubt the amount of stuff inside a commercial “Atlas” could be under the million mark and wouldn’t be shocked if it costed multi-million a piece even after full industrialization of production)
Strange, for human there is a reason why we are being tired. Surely. Else we would be going 24/7 with our brains constantly on. With neural net computers that may be the case too. Why Artificial Brains Need Sleep | Discover Magazine
What if human brain is a pinnacle of evolution, and we dont get better than that when devising our technology? We could scale it, make it faster, but not more intelligent at all, and energy need for that not optimized at all…
According to a theory by an 18th century Scottish judge named James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, the orangutans(the common name for apes back then) were close to being human, genetically, due to their capability of feeling shame. This was nearly 100 years before Charles Darwin. So, from this we can deduce that everyone, every scientist in the history, once stood on the shoulders of giants.
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