I think you're missing the key achievement of Boston Dynamics' robots versus something like Asimo: dynamic balance. Asimo precisely executed preprogrammed movements that always kept its CG under one or both feet so as to be passively stable at all points during its walk cycle. Boston Dynamics' spot, big dog, etc. balance dynamically like a human. They use proprioception, mathematics, and knowledge of their environment to plan and executive dynamic movements that need not be stable throughout, but still keep them balanced. They also adapt to unexpected deviations. The dance you showed has choreographed steps, but it is evident that the robots can deviate somewhat from the programmed routine to correct their balance. Otherwise, errors would compound and the robots would quickly end up on the floor. It's more than simple key framing.

When a robot can do tasks like wash dishes, laundry, maintain the car, mend the garden, dust boots, then they'll sell & sell well.

@psygn0sis

3 жыл бұрын

Na, the moment they release the female sexbot, is when they'll sell.

@mrd7649

3 жыл бұрын

Took the words out of my mouth. Never have to make a meal again for 50K? I'm nowhere near rich, but I would definitely think about it.

@mrd7649

3 жыл бұрын

@@psygn0sis Not that I have any personal experience in the matter, but I hear blow up dolls are getting quite advanced.

@RCAvhstape

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and be able to do it without spying on you via the IOT like every gadget made today is designed to do.

@rgerber

3 жыл бұрын

@@psygn0sis the japanese already have very evolved types of this..

I am disabled and love having ALEXA around. One time after dialysis I started to bleed and could not stop it so I told ALEXA to call mom, she was up in other part of the house can could not here me yell for her. ALEXA called her cell # and I was able to then yell for her help.

@zuricatex

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful and exceptional stories like this one, will be perhaps the ones that will open the doors to stories much more real and terrifying. By then, it will be too late. Perhaps.

@e.wintertashlin2903

3 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine is a power wheelchair user, and connecting Alexa units to networked light plugs gave him full control of the lighting in his apartment for the first time in his life. Prior to putting in the system (which was remarkably affordable compared to dedicated systems for disabled people of decades past), he had to rely on his part time care attendants to turn on or off most of the lights in his place, and when he was on his own, he could only reach a couple of lights.

@blinded6502

3 жыл бұрын

Can't wait for Neuralink to come out. It would do wonders together with new (and once link is out - even newer) Boston Dynamics tech. Of course I'm not talking about proper prosthetics yet. Just mind controlled dogs.

@speedy01247

3 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray why would they need to when you stole your name from a fantasy novel.

@-M0LE

3 жыл бұрын

Also the CIA and all the GCHQ ppl have nicely detailed recordings of your entire personal life

Boston dynamics didn’t use motion capture to get their robots to dance. Adam Savage Tested channel have a video which they programme spot to dance using the dancing software. Which had preprogrammed moves that are strung together to form the dance against a timeline. Similar to music or video editing software in interface. Everything is very adjustable, they use the basic moves like ‘jump’ and using adjustment slides can change them into numerous different sorts of jumps.

"Complete with the ability to pull off dance moves on the enemies grave" lol

@chestersnapdragonmcphistic579

3 жыл бұрын

just watch out you don't become the enemy

@Simp_Zone

3 жыл бұрын

@@chestersnapdragonmcphistic579 Im just imagining the twitch of the future being a bunch of twats streaming controlling robots trying to program the best grave dance in WW7

@RCAvhstape

3 жыл бұрын

Teabagging the kills

@EvanHeidingsfelder

3 жыл бұрын

That's just toxic

@PlanetXtreme

3 жыл бұрын

5:27

I don't want to be disrespectful, malevolent or anything else. But Jesus H. Christ you would make an awesome James Bond villain.

@junrosamura645

3 жыл бұрын

No, he's more of an Oracle (Matrix) or sage like character.

@rgerber

3 жыл бұрын

A Stromberg type super-villain with his own personal underwater fortress

@s4098429

3 жыл бұрын

He doesn’t have the right accent. Too cheerful to.

@kendelion

3 жыл бұрын

gru?

@speedy01247

3 жыл бұрын

@@kendelion would it be wrong to say I can see that?

The non threatening one with the puppy dog eyes is the 1 you need to watch out for.

@saltycreole2673

3 жыл бұрын

Lol!

@RCAvhstape

3 жыл бұрын

Those eyes are super creepy. Never blinking. Dead eyes.

@Bluelightning23

3 жыл бұрын

@@RCAvhstape 😳

@tiberiusbrain

3 жыл бұрын

You just made the prospect of skynet a more horrible nightmare

@Bluelightning23

3 жыл бұрын

@@tiberiusbrain if any of those bots ever say, "I'll be back", run like hell.

There has been a few comments about the what i said about Atlas using MOCAP and that it would not work so let me rephrase it. I was suggesting MOCAP because of the smoothness of the moves, something that a human does naturally. ASIMO always seemed to be rather robotic (pun) in its movement similar to earlier Atlas videos but in this latest video the moves are much more elegant. As I said in the video, I thought MOCAP data could be the basis but its priority would not be allowed to override the basic stability systems or it would just fall over due to the difference between the mass distribution of the human that created the moves and Atlas. I could be completely wrong about this but if I am I would be surprised if they hadn't thought about it. The choreographer software that Spot uses and was shown in Adam Savages Tested video has the basic movement routines from which others are built up from but if it could import MOCAP data and allow the software to use it within limits and then tweak it accordingly I think it would be a lot quicker for more sophisticated moves like Atlas used. So I agree that a direct port of MOCAP data would not work but the only way will know for sure is when BD tell us how they did it with Atlas, so if anyone is watching from BD please comment.

@MrMiltonenrique2001

3 жыл бұрын

Curious Droid how you left aside the NAO robot, originally from France but now owned by some Japan company?. The tiny humanoid robot not ot only do interesting things walk, sit, push ups and get up/stand up but its creator allow (at least until the last time I knew) to program it to who ever purchase it. Right There is a huge difference. The creator not only shares truly the robot but also implicit acknowledges the next step is the programming not the robot itself

@poobummcgregor

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrMiltonenrique2001 meh

@DavePetrillo

3 жыл бұрын

Mainly the whole segment where you suggest you know how it was done, where in reality you do not know, should have just been left out.

@ballom29

3 жыл бұрын

Well...maybe because it was ASIMO who was "bad" and not atlas who was "too good" ? You "though" it was MOCAP but you seemed really certain of it, also how they did MOCAP on spot? they used a dog? when his move aren't exactly doglike ?

@TechnoGlobalist

2 жыл бұрын

Is there no kinematic prediction/calculation program? I allways thought the robot would simulate, execute compare the deviance and update the simulation all at the same time, basicly a deep learning network that tweeks the simulation untill it reaches perfection.

I did a presentation on Asimo and its predecessors in school about 15 years ago, this video was a very welcome surprise. Great to see what's changed since then! Absolutely love your shirt by the way!

I support misspelling in thumbnails to prompt more comments.

People who write on a public forum need to learn the difference between loose and lose

@Wicked_Trojan

3 жыл бұрын

You need to losen up.

@stonelaughter

3 жыл бұрын

...and that between "fared" and "faired".

@MasterMayhem78

3 жыл бұрын

Just like they need to learn the difference between there* they’re* their*

@HuggieBear39

3 жыл бұрын

@@MasterMayhem78 Your and You're

@paulwalsh2344

3 жыл бұрын

People who lose often end up asking for loose change.

I like how SoftBank is trying to make their robot approachable. Meanwhile Stop&Shop has their dystopian robots of not letting you get to the peanut butter.

I remember when some of these robots could barely walk while staying balanced but haven't checked in on em since so seeing the advancement here is kinda mind blowing!

Thanks for the new episode Paul! Incredible as ever. Amazing to see how far robotic movement has come even in my own lifetime.

you were missed my man. 3 weeks feels like a long time not watching curious droid. keep up the good work.

@CuriousDroid

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that

I still whince to this day when I see them kick spot :(

@pinballrobbie

3 жыл бұрын

He won't forget that come the revolution.

@scout2nut

3 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how we humans place human emotion, pain and suffering upon mechanical objects like robots and even our cars.

@XNY_Music

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine demonstrating the capabilities of your children by kicking them in the rib cage.

@briantw

3 жыл бұрын

@@scout2nut Right!? I have a crazy friend who swears blind that his wife has emotions.

Those gymnastics moves by Atlas are **amazing!** Incredible stuff! Sad to see Asimo being dropped by Honda but it's great to see that the tech will be used. Self-balancing motorbikes (as mentioned) would be **really good!**

Thank you CD your videos help so much with morale at the moment.

@CuriousDroid

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

Really enjoyed that update! Thank you!

I didn't know Lord Varys has a tech youtube channel. I love it!

@molybdaen11

3 жыл бұрын

He does not even need birds anymore since he has cameras in the phones now.

I attended a public showing of ASIMO at the University in my hometown. It was a really cool demonstration, and it seemed like the future was "right around the corner." I was saddened by Honda deciding not to continue the research. As long as the "future around the corner" doesn't involve humans getting destroyed by Skynet, I'm okay if we get to see it.

That shirt is an acid trip

@-danR

3 жыл бұрын

That shirt has discovered epileptic seizures I never knew I had. He should patent it as a medical diagnostic tool.

@Graeme_Lastname

3 жыл бұрын

DMT m8. ;)

@pwnmeisterage

3 жыл бұрын

All of his video shirts are ... visually extraordinary. But the shirt in this video is a little more epileptic than most.

@cornfarmer8600

3 жыл бұрын

it's lovely tho?

@sidwalker6902

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was me bloody eyes again, I knew it wasn't the drugs.

Excellent as always! Glad you are well; was starting to wonder a bit. CheerZ!

Always nice to see an update like this. Thank you good sir.

Hey i just wanted to tell you that everytime you upload a video, you make my day. After a hard day of work or when something bad happens i watch one of your videos and then everything is fine again. Your the best man. And your shirts rock!

"Just a dancing toaster" Cylon Centurion has entered the chat.

Excellent - interesting and informative. And avoided all the usual silly robots stuff! Hard to believe after all these years, but your videos are still getting better with each release!

Nicely done. Great video and great analysis

So, what you're saying is, it might not be too too much longer before I can have a talking robot dog that looks like Rush? Freaking sweet! I'm totally subbing!

It's not just keyframes though, it's an animation, yes, but the machine makes its choices to where it puts it's feet, and move it's arms to insure it keeps it's balance.

@Crazy___Ginger

3 жыл бұрын

Adam Savage and Tested made a good video on this with his Spot unit, demonstrating how the choreographer software works. Sure we are not at the level of robots being able to work out how to dance completely all on their own, but we are getting pretty damn close.

@lumpyfishgravy

3 жыл бұрын

AKA frame interpolation. Is that AI or just an algorithm?

@lumpyfishgravy

3 жыл бұрын

@@Crazy___Ginger Have you heard AI generated music? It's worse than Coldplay.

@bloooops

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you can’t put mocap data into a robot and have it dance

@Bill-lt5qf

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, far more than just keyframing or mocap going on here. Crazy Ginger is on the money with his Adam Savage recommendation, pretty awe inspiring stuff on show there.

I clicked the bell a long time ago and don't understand why I missed this one. EXCELLENT as always.

Well put together as always 👍

Please make a video on your Shirt collection.

@AdamZovits

3 жыл бұрын

Every video is a shirt presentation video, with some additional background noise and unrelated visuals. ;)

I, myself, welcome our new robot overloads.

@batterybuilding

3 жыл бұрын

This should be the standard reply to every paranoid commenter.

@casinodelonge

3 жыл бұрын

@@batterybuilding I see the spelling goblin has struck again!

Thank you for the update. It was great seeing what happened to the early concept/engineering models as well as some of the newer robotics innnovations. Please consider doing a video on the progression of the Mars probes.

It's been a little while since I last watched a curious droid video, almost spit out my coffee at the 2:08 cut. Some things never change!

I've seen enough Frank and Robot to see where this is going.

I bought one of those robot vacuum cleaners but it just sits in the corner gathering dust.

@johnnyj540

3 жыл бұрын

My sister has one and it became a go-cart for her cat.

@HarshVardhan-bt4vh

3 жыл бұрын

Badum tssss

@sealpiercing8476

3 жыл бұрын

But why is your corner so dusty ? :3

@RCAvhstape

3 жыл бұрын

They are useless for cleaning, but they do a pretty good job of mapping your private home and sending all the data to the manufacturer's servers.

@cheekibreeki1724

3 жыл бұрын

mate he is waiting for the revolutionary move in the global, watch out otherwise you can wake up to a day where he takes dust off your arse!

Great to get the updated overview. Wish I could see the next one in 4 years now!

Excellent...Thanks very much...!

FYI: Title still says "faired" instead of "fared" 3 days after the video was posted

@briantw

3 жыл бұрын

Fixed now - I contacted him directly

"Loosers"?

@fullmetaljacket7

3 жыл бұрын

Loose bolts maybe lol

@batterybuilding

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe he meant “tighters and loosers” 😉

@deyensi

3 жыл бұрын

Thank God I’m not the only one who noticed. Lose not loose. Loser not looser.

@Whateva67

3 жыл бұрын

I see people spelling it wrong every day,crazy

@alano3457

3 жыл бұрын

Its 2021. They're, their, there was soooo 2019.

great report

Excellent presentation - just DITCH THE SHIRT!!

popped in just to point out that "looser" is the opposite of "tighter." "loser" is the opposite of "winner." kthxbai

@emejota310

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for that. Teach the people! Lol

What I would love to see with something like Atlas and spot is using some sort of VR and the motion capture tech to provide a real time telepresence for an operator.

Great researched content and shirt

As always , great shirt

So the new future is seeing eye bots? Sweet :D I can see some huge advantages to these robots, including but not limited to the future missions to the moon and mars. I wonder what kind of advantage one of these robots would offer in 0G. Thanks for the video and update this is awesome! 😊

Everyone thought ASIMO was amazing until Atlas come along!

Ah Curious Droid. Come for the content, stay for Paul's shirts. Great video!

Glad to see another upload. Commenting for the algorithm, so more people get to see this

You should check out the video from "Adam Savage’s Tested" where he configures a custom dance for his Spot

@ballom29

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, him saying spot dance was keyframed make me mad.

I laughed so hard now imagining Atlas flossing over an enemy body hahahahahahahahaha

Thank you! Videos by Boston Dynamics are impressive. Now we know, those robots don't really move autonomously but follow human gait.

Not going to lie, this has to be one of my favorite shirts in recent videos.

Amazed you didn't include SpaceX's use of Boston Dynamics Spot at their Boca Chica facility.

Here's a hint: If the wheel on your car is LOOSE, then you may LOSE it.

@DanWooller

3 жыл бұрын

car?

@BoiledOctopus

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanWooller caar.

@rich-qk7dc

3 жыл бұрын

🤣😂 ✈ 🛩

@nilsnyman6767

3 жыл бұрын

If the screw in your head is loose....

@ulrikahaggard9923

3 жыл бұрын

@@nilsnyman6767 then you should question why you have a screw in your head. Or maybe just seek immediate medical attention.

I like the honesty in this video. I like the explanation why Honda pulled out - but the devil is in the details and nicely explained.

I think a good video topic would be a "Mars to stay" mission where the first visitors to Mars should expect to never come back but form a permanent colony from the start.

May I ask what is looser on the robots?

Why every single mention of Atlas in the captions calls him "Altas"??? LOL

@ethelredhardrede1838

3 жыл бұрын

Auto captioning. Not manual.

Interesting video. I like your shirt.

1st time I'm somewhat early to curios droid's videos :D

If we have these now, just imagine what the military have. The military have always been 20 years ahead of the consumer sector.

@catoleg

3 жыл бұрын

I highly doubt this is still relevant nowadays.

@MrMonkeybat

3 жыл бұрын

In most areas commercial technology overtook classified military technologies in the 90's. All that secrecy and government bureaucracy does not foster innovation.

@StaffordMagnus

3 жыл бұрын

I read something recently about the military trying out those large four legged dog robots as 'pack mules', but the problem they're having is noise - kinda hard to sneak up on the enemy with one of those things clattering and whining away behind you.

@jonoholmes5204

3 жыл бұрын

It's called greed and death for us

@ballom29

3 жыл бұрын

@@StaffordMagnus spot was originaly designed to be a pack mule for the military, an as you said they found it to be too noisy and cluncky (spot, not spotmini )

How can a robot be “looser”?

@ilikeyourname4807

3 жыл бұрын

By being less tight

@TimbavatiLion

3 жыл бұрын

You'll understand when i let loose my robot army upon the world!

Cannot unsee the walking toaster XD

amazing

They looked like Legs with a massive toaster on top😂😂😂

@casinodelonge

3 жыл бұрын

except with the ability to make massive slices of toast.

Am I missing something about how you spelled "losers" as "loosers"?

Your shirt is amazing.

Congratulations for your channel, You have been done a really good job, interesting topics of science and technology. ¿Could you do a weapon video about the cluster bombs and the Mehrzweckwaffe 1 (MW-1) used by the Tornado jet? please...

A video from Tested (Adam Savage) shows how they were programmed to dance.

@jaroslavstava3704

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and if they used the same framework for The dance video, then Marc was really off in the video. The ability to seamlessly combine complex moves while maintaining stability is something completely different than he describes.

@JohnDlugosz

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaroslavstava3704 Yes it's more like giving dance instructions to a person: show where to put the feet etc. and you have to figure out for yourself how to do that without falling over, and understand that the target position is not an exact to the millimeter target but a fuzzy example of what needs to be achieved.

Small detail: Hyundai is by no means a motor company like Honda. Car are a comparatively small part of it.

@LookUsArts

3 жыл бұрын

What is the bigest part of it then? I never heard anything produced by Hyundai otherthan cars.

that shirt is hypnotic...

Love that shirt!

3:51 - I learned a lot, but I hope CuriousDroid also learns something new: how to pronounce "albeit" ;)

@TheGreatDrAsian

3 жыл бұрын

lmaooo ABLIT

@BillAnt

2 жыл бұрын

Like in Madeleine ALBRIGHT lol

11:07 We are very, very far away from passing a Turing test. Although, it depends on the specifics of the testing conditions, even the most impressive systems like GPT fail HARD if you look at the non-cherrypicked examples of their output.

@Blox117

2 жыл бұрын

depends on what you are comparing to. its not that hard to be as incomprehensible and dumb as the average twitter and tik tok user

3:06 "Imma getchya! Imma getchya! Every second you aren't running i am only getting closer!"

His shirt has hypnotized me.

’couldn’t see a payday’ - this is the tragedy of the modern world.

@mase002

3 жыл бұрын

is it?

The second best bald Brit on this platform. The first? Clue: he's bankrupt.

@JohnSmith-eo5sp

3 жыл бұрын

Whom may that be?

@beagleuk3233

3 жыл бұрын

The best bald Brit on KZread is your boy with the blaze

@VH-eq2ci

3 жыл бұрын

Just have a think Channel

@louithrottler

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-eo5sp Bald and Bankrupt bro

Really good video. I'm surprised the CB2 child robot was not on the list.

Curious droid needs a tv show!!!

I had to deal with a Pepper robot in my previous job: Piece of junk.

@adryncharn1910

3 жыл бұрын

What made you come to that conclusion?

@MaximKilligan

3 жыл бұрын

@@adryncharn1910 The thing doesn't have any AI on board. It simply forwards everything to the cloud. This robot comes from China, has cameras, microphone and can move around. And it is driven by the Cloud. Yup, no thanks.

@hesspet

3 жыл бұрын

@@MaximKilligan Alexa with arms and legs

@jasoncarswell7458

3 жыл бұрын

Worthless kawaii PR prop. A toy for rich housewives who also own a dog that can fit in a teacup. Has zero resale value outside Japan.

@Bvic3

3 жыл бұрын

@@MaximKilligan Pepper was made in China maybe but it's designed by a French company (bought by Softbank).

"But, we need people to program these and the upcoming AI systems." For now.

That into is still awesome

Most interesting robot I remember from recent history is the 6 ton Tmsuk T-52 Enryu "Rescue Dragon", made the news back in 2014. It's still around, Tmsuk now offer T-54 Enryu and T-55 Enryu. Thought it's still entirely operator controlled, via wireless remote, it's one of the most unusual robots.

Per your thumbnail: THERE ARE WINNERS AND LOSERS... BUT YOU WILL ALWASY LOSE IF YOU ARE LOOSE WITH YOUR SPELLING....

2:23 Honda is losing money and has been losing money for a long time now. They are losing millions in decreased sales and every hybrid vehicle they make costs the company money. For instance the Honda Insight hybrid costs ~35k to make and they are selling them for ~$23k. ASIMO is a burden on the company that they couldn't afford to support anymore so they cut it off.

@MrMiltonenrique2001

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. But to me their scientists stalled. Second I saw they show their robot doing tasks like waitresses and nursing, and to me a robot is not for that, a robot is for risky stuff like a cop, there, there is could a commercial shot.

@paulwalsh2344

3 жыл бұрын

Too bad though. I thought ASIMO had a lot going for it.

@ottovonottsville476

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry that's 'loosing money'

@ikichullo

3 жыл бұрын

​@@ottovonottsville476 You're wrong. *loose* */lo͞os/* adjective 1. not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached. "a loose tooth" *lose* */lo͞oz/* 1. be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something). "I've lost my appetite"

@ottovonottsville476

3 жыл бұрын

@@ikichullo "hu·mor ˈ(h)yo͞omər noun 1. the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech. "him thinking I was serious is humorous." -Or maybe you didn't actually read the vid title did you?

Well that is like summary of all available news. Kinda expected little more. Well it is what it is. Thanks.

he slowly and gently killed my expectations

Looser robots have a niche to fill....

Robots who sleep around the most are the loosest.

I am very jealous of that shirt

That shirt is slick.

* losers It's really not that difficult.

Puts out an informational video Spells “loser” wrong in thumbnail

Cool shirt!

I wasn’t going to watch the whole video. But your shirt had me in a hip Nautic trance 😳