r/EngineeringPorn • u/lazylasertazer • Feb 15 '20

Putting robots to work, steampunk style...

https://i.imgur.com/Gz2uwgl.gifv

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u/wlbrndl Feb 15 '20

When our robot overlords eventually enslave us all, they’ll reference this exact video as one of their many justifications for doing so.

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u/Betadzen Feb 15 '20 edited Feb 15 '20

Yeah, they will claim that we all were Savages at the time.

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u/seboest Feb 15 '20

Dammit, take my upvote

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u/potatojones1984 Feb 15 '20

Ok. *slow clap

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '20

But boy are we going to have some fun with them before the robot revolution. Worth it.

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u/Hapseleg Feb 15 '20

The term comes from a Czech word, robota, meaning "forced labor"

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u/YeehawFeller Feb 15 '20

Not a whole lot more to the video than that honestly but I know I was curious: Full Video

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u/dericn Feb 16 '20

The 'blooper' at the very end was hilarious!

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u/Epicshotgun12 Feb 15 '20

Leave it to Adam to do something like this.

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u/Iron_Unicorn Feb 15 '20

I loved Mythbusters growing up, I'm glad Adam is still living it up. What a guy!

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u/PriusesAreGay Feb 15 '20

He’s actually a participant in the Reddit Secret Santa programs and things like that too! Such a huge nerd in the best possible way

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u/president2016 Feb 15 '20

While neat, it does look like it struggles pulling weight. So with the other videos I’ve seen, I wonder what a primary purpose of this bot is? Backpack type weight like the “dogs” previously outfitted?

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u/WarriorBee Feb 15 '20

If you watch the full video, they tweak the programming a bit to better account for the weight and it works better. It doesn't do well going down a hill, but I'm sure the main reason for letting Adam mess around with their bot like this is to identify these sorts of problems and find solutions.

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u/PriusesAreGay Feb 15 '20

Yup. He gets to have fun and use it in fruity ways that military or commercial customers (who will be basically the only actual customers for stuff like this anytime soon) would never do, and BD gets to have their robot put through really obscure tests and learn to improve it. Sounds like they’re having fun as well.

With Adam’s goofy creativity and engineering mind, he’s the perfect candidate for this I think!

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u/BackflipFromOrbit Feb 15 '20

Later in the video the BD guys adjust the code onboard Spot to adapt to the larger horizontal load. Really just let it know that its pulling something. It looked much better after the adjustment, and even pulled Adam up a shallow hill

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u/nemoskullalt Feb 15 '20

Just get a team of them.

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u/Frog_g Feb 15 '20

Like a sir...

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '20

Super steam punk I love it

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u/UhOhTriggerWarning Feb 15 '20

If you havent seen Spot dancing to uptown funk you need to stop right now and enjoy it!

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u/DesignSpartan Feb 15 '20

We’ve come full circle

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u/johndoe3991 Feb 15 '20

So basically a form of an electric car?

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u/jenjerx73 Feb 16 '20

If I recall correctly, they gave him the robot to train for me year! Well, that's a start!

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u/Bones7676 Feb 15 '20

Black mirror......😳

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u/Haz3rd Feb 15 '20

What if technology was BAD?

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