Ask A Roboticist: Meet Cassie | Boston Dynamics 

If she hadn't of glazed over and spoke of the robot uprising? I honestly wouldn't have been able to tell

Lol

Can we build a robot with this fantastic sense of irony/sarcasm?

A shame she broke immersion by wearing that thing on her face: If it wasn't for that I'd have almost been fooled into thinking the humanoids there are alive and conscious!

OMG...was thinking the same thing, especially in the intro. I guess if you hang with robots long enough, you start to assimilate.

exactly what I was thinking when I saw the title Meet Atlas Meet Spot Meet Cassie

Omg how did I not realise this !

The corridor crew breakdowns is going to be hard for this one

I don't know, she seems narrow-minded.

I'm a fan of Boston Dynamics's robots, but seeing how the Chinese government is using them to force residents to stay starving inside their apartments during the Shanghai 2022 lockdown is a sad reminder that these robots will mostly be used by governments and companies for evil purposes. But any way good joke.

Wow she is so real! I thought she was a human the whole time!

Next step : no vocal fry, but great ambassador yes :-)

Sure she is. She wears a face nappy walking down the corridor but takes if off for the interview 🤡

Let's just hope they aren't planning on overloading an Anti-Mass Spectrometer and cause a resonance cascade 😬

gotta give her cred for choosing such an understated hoodie. if you know, you know, otherwise its a normal generic looking hoodie.

@@bibeau756 They're waiting for you Gordon, in the test chamber.

@@dfgdfg_ in the test chaymeburrhh*

she doesnt need to hear all this. shes a highly trained professional!

It is. Cassie is a hyper advanced humanoid robot.

I have had to pass on Engineering applicants who didn't know who Mr Scott was.

This comment means a lot to me!! And it's why I agreed to do this even though the whole thing terrified me 🤣 you can absolutely do it. Keep working on your side projects and tinkering!!

good luck!!!!

@@cassiemckay as a fellow can't brush I introverted nerd, I feel you. People see me in my respect to field and think I'm extroverted. What they are releasing though is me being in my safe space and creative space with something that I love and being passionate about sharing it with others. Thank you for doing this video and sharing your love and passion with others and relating to them your story. PS my 13yr old son is in a magnet HS robotics program and I can't wait to show him this video.

Being brutally honest, it would be difficult, more than likely you'd have to go back to school and get one of the following: Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, an ECET related diploma, or a Bachelor of Mechatronics. Your experience would come in handy for sure as I'm sure it's taught you problem solving and good analytical skills, but you're right, that field is quite far removed. If you're really interested you could try to teach yourself basic digital electronics and become familiar with embedded programming on resource limited platforms like microcontrollers. There's a bunch of free courses online, you could start with something super simple like an Arduino and graduate yourself to more industry standard controllers like PICs or TI based ones. Once you have a basic understanding of digital electronics and embedded systems you could start looking into more exclusively robotics based subjects like motion and path profiling, again, lots of free courses online that usually have a name like "Robotic Applications" or something along those lines.

@@dtraindaimyo3377 Great info, as a Dad I like to have some basic understanding when a 'how too questions?' comes up... I was wonder, my 12 year old son has autism and loves his gaming, but I would like to introduce him to coding as I think he would greatly enjoy it, do you have any suggestions, if not too much trouble on where he could start ?

@@dodgygoose3054 Hey man, Depends on what he's interested in, personally I find learning pure programming without some sort of application a little boring, but he might not be the same. I think embedded programming is a little bit more fun because you get to see directly how the hardware in a device interacts with the software- so I can give you advice there. Look around for some simple projects you and your son both might be interested and start from there. For example, you could create a timed LED strip that flashes some sort of colored pattern. For a beginner microcontroller I would recommend an Arduino which can be a good platform for learning C or C++. A cheaper alternative is a buying a Ti microcontroller and using "Energia" which is basically an Arduino port. Alternatively you could get something like a raspberry pi which is actually a mini computer, but you still have access to GPIO ports to interact with external peripherals like LEDs, temperature sensors, accelerometers, etc... On a pi you can also write your code in Python instead of C or C++ which might be a bit more beginner friendly. This might sound a little like gibberish but Google "beginner Arduino projects" or "beginner raspberry pi projects" and try to find something you and your son will both be interested in making together.

@@dtraindaimyo3377 Mate that was brilliant thank you. That raspberry pi sounds really interesting, we're out in country Australia so those temperature sensors, bits and bobs would get him out and about a little, plus beginner friendly is always good. Thank you again you've been a big help.

@@dtraindaimyo3377 i'm just a viewer randomly reading comments, and i don't know if i'll ever apply myself any of the information you've given these two people, but i really needed to tell you this : you are an awesome, cool and tremendously helpful person.

GAGAGAGAGA I just disliked my own face because I am unpretty. HOWEVER: I always like my GOOD videos however. No dislikes allowed where I come from. Don't be mean, dear wgo

Yoo funny seeing him here

It's totally possible jobs like theses are going to start poping up because it's a new ara mostly technology is going at a super rare that it's crazy even in the next three years life is going to change drastically

You are so so welcome, thank you for the kind words!! Keep up your side projects etc in whatever work you're interested in, who knows who you'll meet etc that could give you an in.

Reinforcement learning (Machine Learning) + animal-leg-like movement policy

@@jonathanarreola5279 I think they haven't implemented neural networks in any area of the Spot robots just yet. The arm extension, however, might be using computer vision.

I don't know for sure, but I guess a part of both. It looks quite obvious that the walking cycle is inspired by animals that is mimicked into spot by calculations and trail and error. I guess they use a pre determine motion cycle for normal circumstances with a on-board processing system to adjust for more complex surfaces like a inclination or stairs.

the way its done is that they look at the layout of the animal (here they used a dog) and set up the joints more or less like the animal then its pretty simple the have the neural network in the robot calculate the angles and movement speed with input from a gyroscope making it hard to actually say whats being figured out by the AI through learning and what is being calculated from input by the gyro and other sensors :D

Shout-out to my Cape Cod Tech ppl

Dude, hi!! I remember you 😃 kinda crazy right?? Weird to think I've been at BD for 14 years, and that's how long we've been out of high school 😂

@@SpecialSalads actually I'm an electrical engineer that's my proper title, I just didn't update linked in because I barely use it. I started as a technician 15 years ago and have been on the engineering design team for about 4 years now! Totally can be done, and I'd say it would be faster if you had a degree, it sure took me a really long time to work up to engineer but I loved being a technician too!!

Yeah for me I got a head start by going to a technical high school, where I graduated with multiple industry certifications in computer repair which very much applied to my first technician dog working on littleDog at BD! In high school I even learned Solidworks. I was a technician for about 11 years, started as a very basic junior tech then worked my way up. I've been on the engineering design team for about 3-4 years now. The biggest thing is doing projects on the side/your own time that prove your real life skills, since even having a degree doesn't guarantee you have hands on real world experience.

@currupt I wanted to add another important thing... for me I was lucky enough to get in on the ground floor at BD, before we were famous... And take on a very basic role. I would say if you want to go to the no degree route that's probably important, it's hard to get in the door at high profile places until you've got a good resume and title... Working your way up in a company is the route I and others without degrees at my company went. There are maybe 3 of us at the moment in the engineering side without degrees out of 400, so it's not common but not impossible (we've all got 10+ years of professional experience tho too starting as technicians)

@@cassiemckay Thanks very much for the in-depth response! I've been following BD since their first upload on youtube, I've always thought the stuff you present is super cool. I really like working with electronic and mechanical systems, it's very satisfying to fix something. College never seemed like the right fit for me, so I assumed I just couldn't ever get into robotics. It's cool to see someone who is a real example to the contrary. Thanks again for answering my question.

@@cassiemckay woah you really grinded fot that long, that's difficult. I didn't think companies did that anymore nowadays. they seem to want people to get all the degrees first instead of letting people learn on the job, even in more practical fields like engineering :/

Since it can be programmed voice recognition is one of possible programs it could run

I imagine quite a lot since, like they showed it can be controlled remotely by a controller.

I would assume they're not planning on adding baked-in AI beyond safety measures/basic object recognition and mapping. But it has an API, which means the onus is on a developer to create whatever AI they want for it, and release the software for others to use.

You're basically asking if you can drive a car with no engine. Spot needs a program to run. A car can't run without an engine. You can make your program take verbal commands and do something, but only if you program that in.

If I had to guess they would set something up so oof you wanted spot to follow a specific path it would be a setting then just have him walk the path with the controller then it re follows that path.

Break it til they make it.

That's exactly what's called reinforcement learning

Actually would be cool having these even if it's not a lot

@桜 ᴹᵘᵏᵘ⁴² 👽 I got a head injury and lost the ability to do a lot of the math needed. I also lost of my memories, so like I don’t recall most of my teen days or how I met my wife

Aaron Swartz said something similar about programming and magic.

Wow that's a lot of toes...

But does it have any taboos?

Hilarious and original

@@quantumblur_3145 mald more

Whoever you are, this means a lot to me!! Thank you

@@cassiemckay Bless 🙌, Continue.

You're definitely slacking.

Thank you!! Both my parents are teachers, so anything that gets the kiddos excited makes me super happy. Fist bump for HL.