Boston Dynamics is now (since Friday) owned by Google, NYTimes article
That guy is straining his servos, holy cow. He needs to get some that stay put without power.
This is the only reason people build robots:
Also note that robots are much more efficient.
Every one food calorie require (according to very optimisting estimations) at least 7 calories from oil and gas invested. And people can not efficiently consume and convert every calorie. They also require sleep and loose concentration quickly.
This little robot moves very fast !!,the japanese HRP4C is dancing too but slower ,it's still a démo machine but like any computer it's faster and cheaper every year (moore law) the walking softwares a going better and better too (the best one are from bostondynamics the cheeta can run at 28mph)
Ford once said: "Cars don't buy cars." The same is true for robots, isn't it?
but how our économical system will ingest this
You mean how stupid masses could survive it? I have no idea. Especially considering that food and energy go up fast.
The price is aroud 22000$ this is quite cheap for this ,a new révolution is coming but how our économical system will ingest this ? full automated factories are coming soon like this one from Fanuc (robots building...robots)
I bet a firmware update can make it smile like its owner.
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