Boston Black Technology Show, Robots Open Doors
2019-03-07
Recently, Boston Dynamics released a news that a man with a hockey stick tried to stop the robot from opening the door, such as pulling and dragging, and the robot began to struggle. Eventually, humans failed to stop the robots from going out successfully.
The deepest impression is that the robot almost completely autonomously responds to a series of responses. According to the video description, the robot effectively responds to human interference, and finally completes the initiative of opening the door and successfully leaving the door.
It's not clear how to use SpotMini, but it's worth noting that BigDog, a robot developed before Boston Dynamics, was used for military weightlifting (which was later rejected because of too much noise). At the same time, the company has never released videos as intensively as it does now, and has almost never given so much information in videos as it does now.
Robots can get rid of the wrong guidance of external forces and work hard to complete tasks. As the video title says, Boston Dynamics is "testing robustness," the ability of robots to handle different environments. It's hard enough for robots not to fall, but it's even harder to "fight" with humans and continue to do their own thing if nothing else happens.
Now, we are not sure how autonomous SpotMini is. Humans may still use the joystick to control it, but Noah Ready-Campbell, founder and CEO of Built Robotics, believes that it is possible for robots to perform these actions independently.
