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From: Mad Hamish <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au>
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Subject: Re: OT: The Robots are coming.
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:39:15 +1100
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:14:50 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 12/9/2024 9:13 PM, Mad Hamish wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 14:38:24 -0500, Cryptoengineer
>> <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I know for many it's politically correct to crap on anything Elon Musk
>>> is involved in these days, but its worth keeping up with his companies
>>> accomplishments.
>>>
>>> Here's his robot, walking over uneven terrain, up and downhill, and
>>> recovering from slips:
>> 
>> I worked for a guy 20 years ago who'd previously worked in robotics in
>> the USA
>> Companies had worked out walking robots when he was there.
>
>Link?
>
No link this was in a conversation with him at work

>1. Did it operate from on board power, or was it cabled?
>2. Did it use on-board computers, or was that also cabled?
>3. Could it walk over rough, unstable surfaces, as this one does?
>
>The earliest bipedal robot I can find is actually Chinese, from 2000,
>called Xianxingzhe:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTBxHOM-NmM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO#:~:text=E0%20was%20the%20first%20bipedal,produced%20from%201993%20through%201997.
has some earlier ones, and there's a medium link
https://antoniamalchik.medium.com/the-bumpy-road-to-a-walking-robot-c3d5e25e716c#:~:text=In%201969%20a%20team%20at,manage%20stairs%20and%20small%20inclines.
that puts it further back 
"In 1969 a team at Waseda University in Japan built the first
computer-controlled bipedal robot. It took an achingly slow ninety
seconds to complete each step on a completely flat surface. Only in
1971 did that same team build a version that could manage stairs and
small inclines"
>
>It doesn't meet any of the 3 above conditions, though it can handle
>stepping over an obstacle.
>
>The new ones can do all these things. They are a hell of a
>lot closer to Asimovian robots than anything that came before.
>Tesla has done in 3 years what took Boston Dynamics 20.
>
>pt