Lights, Camera, Sensing! The industry standard for dangerous and routine autonomous inspections just got better, now with a brand new set of features and hardware. #BostonDynamics #AutomatedInspection
I just want a spot to help me with my shopping and other things that I can't do that most people take for granted. A medical support spot will be a great help for people like me.
There are services such as doordash and instacart that may be able to help with that. Although I understand that the uptick in price due to it being a delivery service might be a deal breaker for some.
It's amazing. I can't think of any applications, but it's amazing! No seriously, it's amazing that it can open doors and walk on slippery floors etc, from a tech poiont of view it is absolutely amazing. But if you have a plant that has a slippery floor... well there aren't any. How many plants do you know that have critical pipes that have no leak detection? Even this video illustrates that whatever spot sees has to be evaluated by humans who'd be much faster to just wlak Spot's route than to Spot is. And obviously a $12 sensor at the place where things can leak does the same job and will report the instant the leak happens, and not once per hour when Spot happens to walk by and look up. And what happens when Spot is ionspecting and get's it's foot stuck, does the entire inspection process just stop and we all prayh nothing goes south while spot is being repaired? Spot is a truely amazing piece of kit but currently is serkioiusly has one application only: it's a walking camera for emergency services.
I agree! Now, in terms of application I was thinking about in the case of a crime scene, where some victima are locked in a room. Policemen could send this robot to open the door. What do you think?
The application is that you "teach" it to do a set of tasks once, then it performs those actions regularly. It allows the humans to focus on other tasks and take a few seconds to review data rather than waste time traveling around to do inspection themselves. Also, some factories cannot be updated so those "$12 sensors" don't do them any good (I have enough friends in industrial automation who can't get approval to install Docker, installing a physical device would never fly). It's hard to see the application if you're only thinking of this video and small scale, but when you think about long term, human safety, and automations in general this has countless uses.
There aren't any factories with slippery floors? You've never worked in a factory that makes food products then. The most intriguing app for me is elder care. A large percentage of the people who are put in nursing homes every year could remain in their homes for longer with a minimal amount of assistance. Someone to help them out of bed or the chair, pass them the remote control or the telephone, remind them of their medicines and maybe bring them with some water, check their vital signs, and call for help if necessary. Unfortunately home health aides are expensive, can only stop for a couple of hours a couple times a week, and burnout is extremely high in that field. Spot can do most of that now, although still lacking the AI to tie the pieces together. Also it's been shown that having a pet, even a robotic one, improves seniors' mental health and helps relieve loneliness. Since the costs of a nursing home is over $100,000/year the company that can achieve a viable product will have customers lined up around the block to get them. Japan is the leader in research in that field, since they have a rapidly aging population, young people don't want to/can't care for their elders adequately, and seniors tend to be very resistant to allowing foreigners into their homes. Their emphasis has been on humanoid forms though, so progress is slower.
Y'all should make a stripped down version with cheaper materials for consumers. Lets get this party rolling! It's going to happen anyways XD. Might as well play with the toys before they turn on us.
Situation : gauge in dangerous location, unsafe to inspect Engineering solution : build semi-autonomous super advance robot to enter dangerous location and transmit an image of the gauge via radio waves back to control room. Normal Person Solution : move the gauge to a safe location, inspect as needed.
When are you going to have one that can just go round my business and pick up trash once an hour and keep an eye on things? I will buy it right now if you can make something that will pick up trash, and will run off if anyone tries to steal it.
Some environments that it would inspect have a higher risk to human safety than others. The robot is essentially a way to minimize the chance that a human would be injured in those situations.
@@Srindal4657 IMO SpaceX is going to blow by BD in the near future or may already have in a short amount of time. They have more money/funding and will recruit and pay for the best of the best employees.
They would just steal it from the depot and sell it on the black market. A Ukrainian unit was caught last year after selling two $7 million French Caesar howitzers to Russia for $60,000 each.
