Humanoid Robot Brains (Science Out Loud S1 Ep2)

[@TheIdiotPlays]

Fun fact: a super computer (which name i dont remember) takes 40minutes to simulate 1 second of human brains

[@milupictures314]

Great Video! I know this is far in the future, but if anyone's interested they should definitely check out the Boston Dynamics channel. They've come a long way on frames, sensing, and motor control over the years. Great to see that MIT plays a big part in it too! Excited to see if this has any prosthetic applications.

[@NoorquackerInd]

What about sensing your own thoughts to completely control the robot?

[@sarahmiller4980]

That kind of reminds me of the movie Pacific Rim, in which humans control giant robots by attaching their brains to a robot's "nervous system" as well as their own. (Obviously, the technology shown there was not supposed to be scientifically viable. I mean, too much mental strain gives you a nosebleed? Really?) However, the humans also wear physical suits while piloting the robots, and the robots mimic their actions. It seems to me that in real life, you could remotely pilot a robot using only the physical suit. Design a suit wearable by a human that tracks the human's movement, and put a video screen in the eyepiece. Wirelessly connect a camera on the robot to the video feed in the human's visor, and feed the motion information from the human's suit into the robot's CPU. You now have, in effect, a system equivalent to the one shown in the video that the programmers use to control Helios. The suit system just takes a lot less training to use.

[@webackspoofer8034]

That might be happening now

[@mariemountson1819]

We go and robots stay forever

[@sarahmiller4980]

All the annotations lead to the same video when they're clearly not supposed to. Just a heads-up. Great video, though!

[@INLF]

Greate video! You guys deserve so much more views! I hope one day I'll also be able to play and programm an Atlas Robot or hopefully a much more advanced version.

[@KevinFelstead]

:-)

[@HowDoYou___]

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