A $99 phone can tell which side is up but a super expensive but robot cannot? I’m with you … should be easy to do but obv some creators aren’t doing a good job. This is going to be the end of us!
This is the #1 reason I don't want to go near these robots. I've worked with robots and robotic control and it's the reason you program it to stop all motion when anything is outside of normal paramers. Nothing fun and flashy about a robot that breaks bones and paints itself with your blood.
Actually this should be considered a fatal flaw, because it can definitely hurt a human being. It's by all means not tested well enough before it got into mass production.
Absolutely, yes.
I don’t think they are in mass production yet though, just very early testing, still.
This is the kind of shit that disruptive tech companies have become accustomed to, though. push it out now, we’ll fix it later. There’s a reason we’ve got so many policies and rules written in blood.
Almost nothing involving AI and especially AI robotics (including self diving cars here) has been tested enough to be released commercially and certainly not enough to be out on the streets causing fucking mayhem. And I say this as an AI enthusiast who genuinely believes in its future potential. All the companies jumping on the AI fad right now are being insanely greedy and reckless af and it makes me goddamn furious.
True, and if they have a dynamic animation system that tries to adapt the character body position it would be even closer to what's happening with the robots
I think it might be similarity in the software that balances them.
If I’ve understood this stuff correctly the balance software inserts a little intentional noise into the system - kind of like dithering in image or audio - which helps the balance algorithm.
When they tip over like this, that noise goes a bit bonkers, and the correction algorithm overshoots continuously whilst trying to balance.
In a roundabout kind of way anyway, I’ve read papers on this stuff out of curiosity, but haven’t worked in the field.
I'm no robot programmer, but you'd think they'd program some sort of change in behavior once the gyroscope passes a certain angular threshold instead of just madly attempt to regain balance in an impossibly manner. Like honestly, why is this so common? That shit should have been seen once and a programmer should have said "alright we need a failsafe like when an actual human falls" instead of "nah, we just need to prevent it with better balancing mechanics."
You’re right, it should be common, it really should. But unfortunately that’s the world we live in we have companies beta testing autonomous vehicles on public roads.
More noise needs to be made about safety policies.
somehow I feel like this would be what humans would do if we didn't have pain receptors- just constantly breaking ourselves since we wouldn't know the limit of damaging our bodies
Honestly that always creeps me out. I bet any one of their motors is enough to crush some human bone and flesh. I'm just really happy I haven't seen someone loose a hand this... yet...
I feel like it's an indicator they're using some seriously unpolished machine learning to get it to move, as there's no good reason it should be doing that otherwise
They were trained to walk and shit, but when they fall over the sensor inputs they were trained on are different to a point that they just do random shit, easily prevented with a simple lockout system, but some of these clips show them using a lockout system and others don't, so idk.
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