{"id":7086,"date":"2016-02-24T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2016-02-24T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:09:50","slug":"humanoid-bipedal-robot-walking-around-and-lifting-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/02\/24\/humanoid-bipedal-robot-walking-around-and-lifting-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid bipedal robot walking around and lifting stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Dynamics&#8217; Atlas robot <a href=\"http:\/\/dollsahoy.tumblr.com\/post\/139909038295\/1-my-sense-of-balance-is-not-this-good-2\">walks around, opens doors, and lifts things<\/a> in this amazing video. I wish I had more context, but this is still stupendous. Thoughts in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atlas&#8217; stability on uneven terrain &#8212; with snow on the ground no less! &#8212; is particularly cool. I envision its stabilizing, balancing, and flexion systems eventually [if not currently] being incorporated into lower limb prostheses to obviate use of a cane, walker, or similar for some people.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure why Boston Dynamics decided to design a humanoid robot, but I applaud them for throwing in some humanoid engineering as well. Most obviously, Atlas swings its arms when it moves. It didn&#8217;t have to do that; it could have had tighter shoulder joints, but Boston Dynamics mimicked humanoid design and allowed it to maintain its balance with one of the ways in which people who walk can.<\/li>\n<li>Atlas pops up almost immediately after being knocked over &#8212; recovering just as rapidly, if not faster than, a human. I&#8217;m very impressed with its multistage standing, especially the final step, when it pushes itself to its feet using basically just the propulsion from its toes.<\/li>\n<li>When the person kept knocking the box out of Atlas&#8217; hands and Atlas continued to walk forward, reaching for the box, I was thinking, Don&#8217;t piss off the robot!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Filed under <em>mannequins<\/em> because I sure wish I had one that did that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Dynamics&#8217; Atlas robot walks around, opens doors, and lifts things in this amazing video. I wish I had more context, but this is still stupendous. Thoughts in no particular order: &nbsp; Atlas&#8217; stability on uneven terrain &#8212; with snow on the ground no less! &#8212; is particularly cool. I envision its stabilizing, balancing, and&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/02\/24\/humanoid-bipedal-robot-walking-around-and-lifting-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Humanoid bipedal robot walking around and lifting stuff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[735],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mannequins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/7087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}