Atlas Robot Walks More Like A Human

Posted by khalling 9 years, 5 months ago to Technology
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Note how quickly advancements are being made
SOURCE URL: http://techgenmag.com/2014/10/24/atlas-robot-gets-closer-to-walking-like-a-human/


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  • Posted by barwick11 9 years, 5 months ago
    I work in robotics, they've come a long way, but trust me, we're still a long ways from being even remotely near the level of a human.

    Put it this way, robots do very well in structured environments. And even better at tests you can prepare for. But even then, it's pretty common to be sitting there, watching a robot during a test, and it turns right instead of left (or something). And you'll say to the guy next to you, "I have no clue why it just did that..."
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 5 months ago
    Bring it on here and we will program it to shrug.
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    • Posted by Zero 9 years, 5 months ago
      Careful...
      Homo Electric would seem to be an inevitability.
      Even the hope of human-cyber evolution will be a pipe dream if we can't boost the brain's computing speed.
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      • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 5 months ago
        The problem is that a computer thinks very differently than a human. A computer has to have a goal, a human can devise their own goal.

        For all the techno-terror flicks, we are still a LONG ways away from creating machines that equal humans on an intuitive basis.
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        • Posted by Zero 9 years, 5 months ago
          Technological breakthroughs happen all the time and they change the world overnight.

          Make no mistake, when you look at a robot, you are looking at the next stage in "human" evolution.
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          • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 5 months ago
            Let me know when one actually passes the Turing Test. THAT will be a breakthrough.
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            • Posted by Zero 9 years, 5 months ago
              200 years from now?
              500?
              50?
              2000?

              It's all the same.
              Are you really prepared to say "Never"?
              And if not - what does that mean except what I said.

              BTW - just found this...
              http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morni...
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              • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 5 months ago
                I'm not saying it will never happen, but I work in computer programming. It takes a REALLY complex (ie buggy) program to attempt to do things humans can do without even thinking about it. And that same computer program has to be written by humans with an utterly complete and infallible understanding of what they are trying to imitate in code. To understand how to create a human-like computer, you have to understand HUMANS. Yeah. That's right.

                I'm far more worried about en economic collapse or being overrun by psychopathic jihadists than by a Terminator wannabe. But you're welcome to ask again in 20 years.
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                • Posted by Zero 9 years, 5 months ago
                  There's short term and long term threats.

                  But really, it's not even a threat - it's just inevitability.

                  A million years ago Man had fire and stone tools - but He was not US.

                  A million years from now - if any descendant survives - He too will not be US.

                  We are not creatures of forever.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 5 months ago
    Just from watching the video it looks like a case of being 90% done, which is maybe half way to a commercial product. That's still very fast advancement. I remember seeing a TV show as a teenager about how walking up stairs was a nearly-impossible problem for robotics.

    I always worry that automation will indirectly lead to socialism. That *certainly* doesn't mean not investing in robotics. It just means be warned that this is yet another possible justification for more gov't intrusiveness, i.e. "all the money's going to companies who make robots that take away jobs." I'm optimistic about it overall.
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