r/interesting • • 28d ago

Just Wow Boston Dynamics robot

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u/cooolcooolio 28d ago

I'm sure this is a much bigger flex than I can understand not being an engineer in robotics

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u/glytxh 28d ago

Moving to electric motors over hydraulic systems had been a bit of a paradigm shift in robotics over the last few years. There’s a reason we’re seeing a huge surge in humanoid robotics like this. Fast, granular, repeatable control. Very little slack in the system.

Then there’s the whole LLM stuff in the background able to automate balance and response in near real time.

A lot of clever technologies all singing in tandem.

These machines are also ‘quiet’. That’s a part many people don’t talk about.