This New Robot from Boston Dynamics Is Unbelievable! 

This R2 unit’s got a bad motivator!

One day there going to take over the world

George Lucas derived the word "droid" from "android" it's like making the word van from caravan.

The robo-dog is "powered" (in terms of software) by Reinforcement Learning (RL) as indicated by one of their CEO's in an interview. GPT-4 is also "fine-tuned" by RL (though I suspect, this is the LLM "ninja" to quote Yann LeCun, even though he gaslights the usage of RL). RL allows for internal reinforcement and agent capabilities. LLM's without RL do not have agent properties, they are more just tools that do not learn and hallucinate. Reinforcement Learning is likely the most powerful machine intelligence system to date. If you look at the email that came out of the lawsuit between Elon Musk and OpenAI, it was revealed that their "core technology" is "from the 1990's." The first edition of the RL book by Professor Barto and Professor Sutton came out in 1997. One of Barto's students went on to Boston Dynamics. Another student wrote a master thesis in 1997 on Reinforcement Learning Control of an Inverted Pendulum using State Space Classifiers, that combined RL with Fuzzy Logic (a merging of language and mathematics), and K-means clustering (a means of classifying the state space into regions of interest, much like moving your eyes and head to focus attention on regions of interest in space).

What’s blud yappin about

In the beginning of every revolution there’s always people like you, they said to be able to fly was impossible, now we have planes that can carry 100+ people at a time, they also said we’ll never stop using horses for transportation

Even the first computers back in 60s were really noisy and big. But look now

people work in noisy environment all the time. gardners using leaf blowers ? construction workers with their jack hammers ?

Cowardice. Not one step back Atlas!

Why not?

Mobility

Well...if it's a Robot it can see from the back and front and all sides...right?

Turning the other cheek

How idiotic are you

Figure has actual utility and will be used for more than just youtube videos, so no, BD are not miles ahead of anything. If they're so far ahead why do their robots never leave the lab? Note also how we only ever see highly edited videos and not livestreams.

@@thecooler69 We will not be seeing the Figure robot anywhere in real commercial use any time soon. It is years and years away from actual usefulness. Boston Dynamics is miles ahead of everyone else. That will not change anytime soon. The new Atlas is slated to start work within months in manufacturing while it's being tested for commercial use. Also, Boston Dynamics has had Spot in real commercial use for years now.

​@@thecooler69From its origins, Boston Dynamics was a company dedicated to research. Yes, it is far ahead of any current robotics company. The Spot robot, which belongs to Boston Dynamics, is already operating in companies around the world, as well as in the military and police fields. The Handle robot, also from Boston Dynamics, is being used in warehouses around the world. Each and every advance that you're seeing in robotics, this kind of consumer robotics boom, is thanks to Boston Dynamics. Atlas is too expensive a robot. They have presented the new robot not to be left behind because this is advancing very quickly. And they have proven again that they are far ahead of any current company. Before commenting nonsense, read and inform yourself about it and leave the fanaticism for OpenAI aside. It's really disgusting.

​@@thecooler69Until you have figure right under your nose, just don't say anything. Tesla tricked people into believing it was completely autonomous folding t-shirt, when it was being controlled remotely. Devin, the supposed software engineer, was a complete farce, as it later became clear. So, instead of talking nonsense, just look around and wait until you have something tangible like the spot robot.

I trolled y'all big time LMAO