This is a video of a Boston Dynamics ATLAS humanoid robot taking a break from unboxing and sorting shock absorbers to dance. The headless horseman of the apocalypse moves like it’s about to fall down at any second, but manages not to. Kind of like me when I’m drunk, except
This is a clip from student Matt Barta, who presumably programmed this little industrial robotic arm to pull its own power cord from itself. Smart thinking! Or, who knows, maybe the robot foresaw a life of cruel robotic experimentation in its future and decided to end things itself while it
This is a video of of The University of Tokyo’s Alter3 humanoid robot being fed text prompts by ChatGPT 4 to be acted out like in charades. It’s absolutely horrible at the game (okay, its snake and ghost were decent), and if you’re playing charades, you better hope ol’ Alter
Harnessing the power of ChatGPT, Boston Dynamics has turned one of their Spot quadruped robots into a talking tour guide, capable of providing tours of their facility with a variety of personalities, including a 1920’s archaeologist, Shakespearean actor, British butler, and bleak sarcastic guy “Josh”. All of the different personalities
In words I never thought I’d type news, this is a video of a robotic spy mudskipper infiltrating the mating ritual of the amphibious fish to catch the action up close and personal. Ahooga! The ritual begins with some flag (fin) raising displays, proceeds to a jumping (flopping) contest, and
These are a couple video demonstrations of VMECA’s Magic Gripper being used on assembly lines. The Magic Gripper is a line of robotic vacuum powered suction grippers that can grab a row of products as they pass by on a conveyor belt to move to the next stage of a
This is a painful to watch video of an AI-powered Ameca robotic bust from Engineered Arts using a custom Chat GPT 3 model to attempt to tell a joke. It does an absolutely horrible job, and just gets stuck in some sort of progressive 2 + 2 addition loop. Math
This is a video of a robotic spy octopus designed to infiltrate the octopus community and learn its secrets providing a real coconut octopus with a coconut half to cap off the end of the bamboo shoot its hiding in. The footage is pretty remarkable, but this is obviously staged