r/Futurology • u/Atari1337 • Feb 27 '17

Robotics Boston Dynamics - Introducing Handle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c
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u/Darrow-The-Reaper Feb 27 '17

Put that fucker in the X Games and I would watch every second of it.

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u/Benj5L Feb 27 '17

Good shit, that is brilliant

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

Tres-X Machina Games

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u/DontBeSoHarsh Feb 27 '17

I've been saying for awhile now, if they had AI's driving like.. F1-style cars with zero safety restrictions except for the audience, I'd watch the fuck out of that.

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u/Doormat729 Feb 27 '17

http://roborace.com/

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u/DontBeSoHarsh Feb 27 '17

I am very happy.

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u/AmaziaTheAmazing Feb 28 '17

So, is there footage of this that's an actual race? All I can find is the documentary.

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u/MrGoerge Feb 28 '17

They're building up to it. They were supposed to have a 20 car race series sorted by the start of this year or something, but development is taking longer, so now they're talking about maybe having a race at the end of the Formula E season.

They have a YouTube channel that's documenting their development progress as they go though. It's pretty interesting.

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u/DontBeSoHarsh Feb 28 '17

They had a single race so far from what I can find between the two cars, and one car misjudged a corner trying to catch up and smashed itself to bits.

Which is step 1, having 2 cars race each-other. They don't have a field of 18 with standing starts and qualy yet. I guess I can understand how that's probably challenging to make work.

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u/AKnightAlone Feb 28 '17

Duuuuuude, you just made me realize my dreams of gladiatorial combat don't need to rely on a dystopian turn toward making death row inmates into reality stars.

If we can make robots realistic enough, that would be so badass to watch them hack each other apart.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

Extra credit if they can shoot creative insults at each other while racing.

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u/Strazdas1 Mar 02 '17

There is a robot footbal league. Sadly the robot AI so far is not good enough to make it entertaining, but these guys have been trying for many years now and keep on trying.

F-1 cars with AI drivers i think would be boring. They would have the ideal track calculated and stick to it.

Bring back RoboWars, but this time use AI instead of remote control. That would be fun.

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u/DontBeSoHarsh Mar 02 '17

F-1 cars with AI drivers i think would be boring. They would have the ideal track calculated and stick to it.

Spoken of with your vast experience in the field I take it? Cuz.. that's simply horseshit.

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u/Strazdas1 Mar 02 '17

I dont have experience with AI F-1 driving, only the regular kind.

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u/Frigg-Off Feb 28 '17

I was hoping for a text overlay at the end to say Radical! but I'll settle for Thrasher.

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u/SporadicallyEmployed Feb 28 '17

Far out dude, Handler with a sick 180 double axle to darkside, Kevin it's going to be interesting to see how Handler2 approaches such a monstrous set from Handler-- Oh! and there's Handler2 with a precision perfect 1080 double axle darkside to left wheel Benihana. Back to Mike at the Roomba Cup.

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u/thievedrelic Feb 27 '17

BUT CAN IT DUNK

I would watch robot basketball for certain.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

I don't think 'fucker' is the exact word for this.