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Sixty Minutes did another segment on the robots of Boston Scientific (Frank knows the founder). Puff piece, in that they did not discuss the controversy of the $75,000 quadrupeds being sold to police departments, and uses to which they are being put.
But the 3 minute film of four robots, two bipeds, one quad, one wheeled doing the Mashed Potato was quite fun, and actually quite amazing. Clip is earlier demo and does not show Mashed Potato dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFK9lkez32E davew - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ |
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Dave, In my physical anthropology class years ago I was taught that the most important innovation in human walking was gluteus maximus, the large muscle that connects the legs to the upper body and keeps us from falling over when we walk. So far as I can see these robots HAVE not gluteus maximus. What’s with that? n Nick Thompson https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -----Original Message----- Sixty Minutes did another segment on the robots of Boston Scientific (Frank knows the founder). Puff piece, in that they did not discuss the controversy of the $75,000 quadrupeds being sold to police departments, and uses to which they are being put. But the 3 minute film of four robots, two bipeds, one quad, one wheeled doing the Mashed Potato was quite fun, and actually quite amazing. Clip is earlier demo and does not show Mashed Potato dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFK9lkez32E davew - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ |
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They do have hips which are critical in maintaining balance. Not Boston Scientific but Boston Dynamics, which is now owned by Google but is still directed by my friend. Frank On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 6:31 PM <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Here's what Marc said to me recently: Frank, Long time, no see. How are you doing? The dancing robots was my favorite project in recent times. Happy New year. Marc On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 7:25 PM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:
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For sure, a life without gluteus maximus is not worth living.
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my bad - used to buy lots of stuff stuff from Boston Scientific when I was a kid. In the Sixty Minutes clip they said that Mitsubishi now owns Boston Dynamics davew On Mon, Mar 29, 2021, at 7:25 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
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Maybe Google sold BD. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 8:11 AM Prof David West <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Either way, Marc is probably "comfortable". --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 8:13 AM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:
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