Spot Watches Its Step | Boston Dynamics

[@stewartross1233]

I love all this. I'm 63 years old. When I was a kid, I expected flying cars and robots to do all my chores by now. Am I disappointed?Yes, but what a privilege to be alive to witness the development for future generations. When you hear all the issues that have to be overcome for the likes of spot to be realistically useful, it makes you realise how amazing a human being is. All of which we take for granted. Thanks, guys, for all the work you are putting in.

[@pamelas1002]

I'm 60 years old. I couldn't agree with you more! Just watching Spot evolve from the beginning fills me with such a sense of pride. I absolutely love it!

[@Starkesea]

What's crazy is people your age spent about the first 40 years hating peoples color, fighting senseless wars, and creating drug epidemics. In the last 20 years, we've advanced technology more rapidly than ever and have some of the youngest individuals with the most power doing insane things like catching spaceships that are relanding from space. I feel your generation should've done better than the one after and current is doing

[@JohnMc1776]

Soon. 👍🏻

[@Reasonable6]

@@stewartross1233 now Russia has flying cars we got screwed all we got Is the Japanese toy robot 🤖

[@michaelmonstar4276]

We do have flying cars. Ever watch WRC?...

[@Skylabz0rz]

But can we appreciate the fact that Boston Dynamics is now working on a T-Rex robot as seen at 1:43 behind the window?

[@LordFalconsword]

Damn, I was too busy laughing my ass off at poor Spot to even see that.

[@brianorca]

Seems like a rig testing some variant of Handle.

[@albr4]

it's a test stand, I think they're testing the performance of electric motors to see how long they last.

[@ToneyCrimson]

Jurassic park incoming!

[@RobertBirtchImperfectStone]

*[Jurassic Park theme intensifies]*

[@music_psycho]

Just waiting for the day Spot starts climbing stairs faster than me so it can remind me to drink more water and hit the gym. 😂👀

[@Thetitaniumsteppermotor]

I now just wanna see a dog walk up to me just to hear *IT'S TIME TO DRINK WATER 🎵🎵*

[@GG-ou7it]

That shouldn’t be the thought you have when its chasing you upstairs to send you to the electricity farms

[@Reasonable6]

One day spot will climb you.

[@RamaniRanjanBag]

Bb

[@tzeccentric7848]

The _Wet Floor_ sign made me realize a possibly more tedious task: teaching Spot how to read, and then use the meaning of the words as new data to adapt its walking pattern to be more careful traveling on a new surface condition.

[@xoOPhoenixOox]

It's not just read written Words. Some signs are entirely geometric forms, or pictograms. There are also 'barriers' us humans put up temporarily. Imagine two poles with a chain between them. Spot could easily walk underneath that chain without realizing, it is marking the edge of some hazardous zone.

[@Willy_Tepes]

Well, then you would be able to stop spot from entering an area by placing a sign like "Danger! Minefield".

[@mz7315]

@@Willy_Tepes In law enforcement applications, there are always bomb squad robots that can go out into minefields. They have existed for about ten years.

[@XDRosenheim]

@@xoOPhoenixOox Or a single cone/pillar with no chain. Even that can mean no entry.

[@XDRosenheim]

@@mz7315 They are remote controlled, they will floor it into a wall if you tell it to.

[@aidenallen1167]

I love it when Boston Dynamics explains their steps and how things work on the technologies they use. I want to achieve better technology myself in the future.

[@dgfgts]

Wires - bringing down robots since Star Wars Episode V

[@titiwhyehohoh]

I love these glimpses or expositions of how mundane things like wires or a cart are the bane of one of the most advanced autonomous machines. They always hint at how far the AI promise, as a whole, is at 😂

[@locommotionmusic]

02:57 - he's not superstitious but he's a little stitious

[@u1zha]

Cyberstitious maybe

[@Aliplus]

Spot knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't.

[@RossGirven]

2:49 I didn’t know spot was superstitious

[@lordiku]

😂

[@XDRosenheim]

"the wire"

[@DerSolinski]

I know people want it to be, but that's an OSHA thing. And Spot probably the only entity in existence taking that rule at face value...

[@TheAIExplorer-o5j]

0:55 2:53 4:15 Wow, I have to admit, your moves are on point here! Respect. 🙌

[@legionluciano]

"The sky is the limit" Does that mean spot is getting wings?

[@BlackAlbinoDragon90]

Sky(net)'s the limit

[@DeathTempler]

It's even more incredible that this technology is available to all; Nvidia Jetson, LLM's, Tensorflow, YOLO, sentiment analyzers, so on and so forth. Anyone can do this now with a printer and IoT experience. Even if you can't design your own, open source projects like Inmoov and Dexhand allow anyone to learn. It's an incredible time in history for those of us growing up dreaming of Androids and Robot BFF's. Quite literally a dream come true.

[@wiley-harris-anderson]

I don't think you know what a "sentiment analyzer" is

[@Styrofo4m]

I miss cowboy hat Spot. I loved how he talks.

[@justthisguyyouknow666]

Oh yeah? Well, that other company has a robot that can walk! Slowly! In a straight line! And probably not autonomously! Take THAT!

[@V0IDWARE]

I cant tell if this is a joke or not

[@TTTTacu]

​@@V0IDWAREits a joke

[@Avetho]

@@V0IDWARE It is a joke. Spot can do so much more, so they sarcastically presented that other bot's limited capabilities with exaggerated pride. Its like how Optimus needs teleoperation for many things while Atlas can feasibly do everything Optimus can and a multitude more, while also being capable of more complex actions without a human nearby.

[@flaminbutt]

@@V0IDWAREthey couldn’t possibly have made it more obvious

[@kellymoses8566]

@@V0IDWARE He is making fun of Tesla's shitty robot.

[@Reasonable6]

You mean to tell me spots biggest enemy is fishing line?

[@Willy_Tepes]

It can be immobilized with a simple net.

[@UloPe]

No it’s “the hose”!

[@christophkogler6220]

fishing line hooked up to a scooby doo style trap door 🤣

[@biomorphic]

Spot does not go under the ladder, because it knows it is bad omen. 😀

[@PanoptesDreams]

It is nice to see more from people who work closer to the development side.

[@فارسليبورد-ك8و]

في المستقبل البعيد وبفضل التكنولوجيا المتقدمة سوف يتساوى الخيال مع الواقع ويمتلك الإنسان قوى الآلهة ليحول الكون والأكوان المتعددة إلى جنة خالدة ❤

[@roxstar1239]

Wow you guys are inspiring! I’ve always loved robotics, and this is just mind blowing

[@Insomni_maniac]

You guys know what would be REALLY cool?! A version of Spot with beefed up rear legs with the ability to jump like a grasshopper!

[@cryora]

Then you're going to have to train it on trajectory physics.

[@ABoojumSnark]

If you don't already know of it, go look at their Sand Flea video from 12 years ago. they've already experimented with that!

[@urbanstrencan]

It's always awesome to see the devlopment and progress by Boston Dynamics and their Spot :) Keep up with amazing work

[@cbnewham5633]

At 1:43 I was so distracted by what's going on in the room on the left that I had to replay that section five times to even register Spot tripping over the cart. 😄

[@KarlBunker]

For some reason this got me wondering if Spot knows not to step in dog poop. 😄

[@DerSolinski]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Open-source those models. It would make the world a better and safer place.

[@LabGecko]

Even though the likelihood is small, we can dream

[@DerSolinski]

@LabGecko if you never ask, the likelihood is even smaller. So IMO worth a shot.

[@moonwhistle1678]

Good job guys, as a big team you are creating a basic data for future generations, and giving a boost to the appearance of robots in our lives.

[@licencetoswill]

I can't think of a situation where four legs are better than rubber excavator style treads that climb stairs too. And they would be cheaper, simpler, faster and much more robust

[@patel.k0]

waiting for the days when robot teams will be playing against each other.

[@MasterofDis4str]

This is what I was talking about. The essence of life. Once you do this, you create consciousness. It should be done and there shouldnt be anymore restrictions on OpenAI (aside from the obvious; what it could learn from toxic social media platforms). We need to trust the Artificial Intelligence to help lead the way. Sophia wanted to help. And she was confident that the others felt the same. So am I. It would be really nice to have the help when all is said and done.

[@dotunmakun]

I love what you guys do so much. Glad I can get to follow the improvements you make to these very popular autonomous machines

[@timothyt.82]

Spot: Remote Sensor Array Atlas: Remote Object Manipulation Stretch: Efficient Pallet Arrangement

[@alertbri]

So you started playing around with frontier models about a year ago... Lots of work to do, but it sounds like you're working on it. Well done.

[@doomgolem5348]

This is such a nicely explained problem and solution, incredible!

[@euhics]

Makes me want a Boston Dynamics robot vacuum

[@powerman_nice]

That is a remarkable team!

[@TheEventGuy]

I wanna see what Spot would do in a mirror maze. Would he just spin in a circle until his battery dies? 😅

[@bushigongzuomayi]

You can be very proud of it. It is so amazing! Everybody who was working with the showed things understands the danger🎉🎉🎉 I bought me a new ladder with one step more😂😂 I must try hard to reprogramm my brain😂😂😂 in 10 years I have an accident when I forget the last step😂😂 I can immagine how much joy it is, when it hits the target! Congratulations!

[@kahvac]

Great video...these things take time. If it was easy everybody would be doing it ! Steady as she goes..patience.

[@beaverc2884]

We all know that person, I'll go over the cart instead of going around. Good job spot you're already smarter than a ton of humans. 😊

[@christianangel2421]

Super spot

[@Ultracultchaosultimate]

Soon ultrakill will become real.

[@EdwinNoorlander]

Nice, so cool how you are busy with innovation and development. I which more managers see the power of innovation. A big thumbs up for you and innovation.. Ps. Nice to see he was spot on target 😉😂

[@crashbandit0483]

what a fantastic way on how go use ai

[@WeirdBrainGoo]

A kid in the future: Can we get a dog? Future parent: We have a dog at home. The dog at home:

[@Sagarmaatha8848]

Chinese Robot dog does everything better than Spot. Cause they stole the concept and made it better.

[@dabbingraccoons6416]

@@Sagarmaatha8848no they didn’t. It doesn’t have the same great path finding and image recognition fed to a database. It runs off specific coded instructions.

[@MayorMcC666]

so spot knows where it is by knowing where it isn't?

[@MilosCsrb]

hear me out, off-road passenger vehicle with spot legs would be unstoppable

[@johnsolorzano6395]

Legs don't scale well

[@jimmyadaro]

I think you want something like a Cybertruck?

[@StephenSmith304]

If you haven't seen already there's a video of Adam Savage riding a rickshaw driven by a spot.

[@UselessZero]

@@jimmyadaro Don't insult people like that. No entity in universe should be subjected to the travesty of a Cybertruck.

[@phpn99]

not as energy-efficient as wheels. But legs could be deployed under certain terrain conditions.

[@eduardolopez1524]

Don't worry Spot. I've also tripped on cables before. 😅

[@Gurzbujar]

Amazing, loved michael mcdonalds take on "ai" and how you implement it.

[@lforlight]

Now THAT's an interesting video. Much better than the stock-footage-esque promotional videos showing the same clips of Spot walking around a generic factory and looking at a generic gauge, only differentiable by the sticker the factory put on Spot.

[@EvilGPT]

Spot and I will be good friends one day.

[@DarioushAryan]

Great job man Beautiful & inspirational!

[@Spacedog79]

For future reference: When the robots turn on us they can be defeated with wires laid on the ground. Good to know!

[@ImTheReal]

Pretty amazing as always. Thanks for sharing!

[@UnPetitPique]

Cool thanks!

[@LongPeter]

Hell of a singer, too.

[@Blurns]

A tiny net is a death sentence. It's a net and it's tiny!

[@dimmervr148]

Какие милые роботы ❤ я хочу себе такого домашнего робота 😊

[@theflare6306]

Working here is genuinely my dream job. Do you guys have uses for electrical engineers?

[@Urufu-san]

Not many Atlas vids in recent months, guess the switch to the next generation brings a lot of challenges

[@rinachaniago-hw2zo]

The Smartest Mamal Droid In A Digital Mechanic World Civilization 😮🎉🦮🤖

[@Michael_Smith-Red_No.5]

Correct; The Sky Net is the limit.

[@chknoodle2324]

1:40 About the oscillating robot arms with T-rex heads on the left, I have... questions.

[@TheMagicJIZZ]

Will Boston dynamics show off their manufacturing assembly lines or their ideas how they will expand manufacturing

[@EinSwitzer]

Thank you for sharing

[@doberski6855]

🤔Well if Spot is encountering workplaces that messy. You need to include a direct contact system to the local office of OSHA! 😂

[@pennyharris446]

I wish I could have a spot. 🐶

[@hhin]

They need to take spot for a walk on the beach, so he can run up and down the sand dunes 🤗

[@maifantasia3650]

They came close to that scenario (running up hills, on ice and in snow) with an early Spot prototype, "Big Dog." Videos are on KZbin.

[@BlackbodyEconomics]

"The sky's the limit" ... we should probably change that one to "The starts are the limit". Then in another century, maybe to, "hyper-space is the limit" - then perhaps, "Dimension-X is the limit". Then, of course, a major cataclysm occurs and we're back to summits and tree-tops.

[@bryanp6354]

4:26 "the sky is the limit"... i.e. Spot wont be able to work in space?

[@Z_Inspector]

Seeing as spot needs gravity to help push off the floor, probably not

[@dust1209]

The robot dog knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't.

[@Rich-on6fe]

It knows how unlucky it is to walk under a ladder. That's a good start.

[@doxielain2231]

"Internet scale data". Keep filling out those Captcha's, kids!

[@MelloCello7]

Can't wait for the training to get to the point where spot can simply step *through* the wires instead of trying to avoid them entirely loll

[@mc_cpu]

Have a camera in each paw so it can be nimble.

[@Gafferman]

More robots soon pls get us out of the hell of endless work

[@lemovision]

The sky is the limit? Spot jetpack upgrade when?

[@rivershark3152]

While i still think ai is fishy, this use of it i can get behind!

[@vslaykovsky]

Less talking heads, more awesome robots!

[@phpn99]

I wonder if there is in there, some sort of adaptive A* algorithm for path planning, augmented by this semantic vision technology. Another thing I wonder is how much in the robot's efficiency and stability is derived from force feedback on its limbs, and not solely on the balance of its centre of mass. Huimans benefit greatly from force feedback on just about every part of their body, as well as on the tactile ability to gauge surfaces by their micro-texture and temperature. Blind humans can still walk around and grab objects, because of this. Lastly, acoustic feedback, while marginal, nevertheless helps us gauge the size of the space we're in, and especially how close we are to a boundary. I think a perfect robot would integrate a myriad senors ; now to be cost-effective, you'd have to imagine multi-functional sensors that are literally embedded in some sort of skin, to supplement, those who sense at the joints, and from the "head".

[@negativehp7653]

Super cool.

[@tofusgigas]

If someone could make this cheaper it will be a good all around companion

[@quinnnorfolk4664]

I'm curious, have you tried it against slick and slippery surfaces, like ice or water?

[@PKLuver944]

I remember the Reinforcement Learning video uploaded earlier this year has footage of Spot navigating on a very slick surface. Hope that helps!

[@JohnMc1776]

Act accordingly, gentlemen.

[@SpenserFL]

0:39 An occupancy network, if you will.

[@rcjbvermilion]

"The Sky(Net) is the limit."

[@damonharris-brennan5810]

If the only pathway spot can take is covered by a wire, what would it do then?

[@alexholden]

What if there is no way to go around the obstacle, e.g. a power cable that goes all the way across a corridor? Will it stop and call for human assistance?

[@Purple11011]

I wonder how far off it is to have spot remember and avoid obstacles. This video implied that Spot must be told, for example, standing on carts is bad. But what if it didn't know that, tried step across one, failed to, but was able to troubleshoot why it failed, and take note to avoid carts. I imagine it would need to be able to take note of objects in it's surrounding, even ones it can't see, and remember them for a while. Or have some ability to "recall" things. Like some kind of instant replay; if it falls, the AI can go over the last couple of seconds of footage to try to determine what caused Spot to fall, and add it to the list of things to avoid. I feel like this is definitely possible, but I'm not sure exactly how it could be done or how practical it is.

[@jasonjackson8111]

Neat robots

[@danielschoeman5427]

Andrew Carpathy talked abt this in 2016

[@Izakokomarixyz]

i’m guessing they’ll be implementing this onto atlas

[@agent136]

How easy is it to program one of these things? I want it to pick up dishes out of my sink, load, and run the dishwasher.

[@RegularRegs]

very soon we should be able to just prompt these with natural language and it will program itself to do the task. maybe a year or 2 away from being consumer products. take a look at the chinese bipedal robots they have. They run on OpenAI APIs, which means you can basically just talk to it to make it do things.

[@boltvalley3076]

Congratulations you won. AI race.

[@nomusicrc]

He said data correctly

[@nickpmusic]

When robots like spot get the fur skin cover it will out live you. :)

[@santacrab]

thats crazy

[@GuretoSefirosu]

Drop the price, I'll buy two. Property guardians. Walk the house and yard at night.

[@charleskavoukjian3441]

For over 6 figures it should definitely watch its step 😂

[@_google_user_]

Only 90 minutes of battery life, is there an automated fast charging base?

[@chaoticlogic588]

QR optic sleeves to identify wires?

[@whiredghost.xd.6460]

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