Boston Dynamics gives Atlas a parkour directory

Oh you like it. We are still thinking that Atlas is walking quietly around the neighborhood, as a chief planner for his cardio workout, before taking off for his first meeting. What could be next?

Next: Boston Dynamics updated the world on Atlas in a video released Oct. 11. Brief and friendly: Atlas is parkour.

No argument when Luke Dormehl in Digital trends called cascades of this robot capable of parkour "frankly amazing."

Pedal a moment, however, and consider the Atlas hoops that the robot has successfully crossed to be where it is today. The engineering to make stunts style parkour was preceded by evolutionary stages. First of all, says New atlasAtlas had good balancing, and before we could say Friday the 13th, there was a sequence showing the robot learning to perform a backflip.

"The major innovations of 2018 Atlas seem to focus primarily on the robot learn to navigate difficult terrain in real time."

What is parkour? It has its roots in the military obstacle course training, not equipment assistance. Many reasons to fall and give up. It is a training discipline that defines a complex environment in which demands include movements such as running, climbing, jumping, jumping and crawling.

Atlas in the video is wonderful for the jump, showing excellent control. How Atlas achieves this balance: the computer vision can be compared to the landmarks visible to the approach, striking the ground with precision. The team stated that "the control software uses the whole body, including the legs, arms, and torso, to gather the energy and strength to jump over the trunk and climb the stairs without breaking the rhythm. "

They used a walking height of 40 cm (1.3 ft) and the highlight of the viewing experience is to see how superior the robot is in its 40 cm jumps.

Boston Dynamics said the robot's hardware takes advantage of 3D printing to save weight and space. The team boasts high weight / resistance ratio.

Brandon Hill to HotHardware points to what is different from Atlas "now" from the Atlas of Older Views. Hill mainly wrote that we had already seen Atlas having to stop to collect his "thoughts", then use the propulsion of both feet.

"This time," said Hill, "Atlas jumps over the log halfway down, pushing his foot against the ground, and continues forward after landing with his door slightly raised without losing a beat."

Matt Simon in wired He also noted that Atlas "was jumping on a multilayered platform by shifting his weight from right to left foot, then backing up his right foot as he climbed the steps."

One tries not to join the group of observers who associate Boston Dynamics' advanced robots with words such as "nightmare", "scary" and "Armageddon", but, inevitably, that it's a good thing. Whether to predict disaster or not, there are attempts to understand where the evolution of the Atlas will one day lead. One can imagine but not be certain.

Rich Haridy in New atlas "Even though Boston Dynamics had been sold by Google's parent company, Alphabet, to Japan's SoftBank for an undisclosed amount in 2017, there was no indication of where the robot would go." No commercial or private results It has never been revealed, so it seems that engineers are still working on the most mobile humanoid robot possible. "

"The company has suggested that Atlas could someday be used in search and rescue operations," the BBC said.

"While it's only a demonstration demo, the technology exhibited here could also be extremely useful in the real world, where the ability to see environments in terms of helping to locomotion (for example, a wall that could also be a platform) would make robots like this one useful in various scenarios, "said Luke Dormehl at Digital trends.

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