I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this... it's kind of creepy knowing that they've been working on this stuff for this long and we've only started seeing the more polished stuff in more recent years.
I get it's just a joke, but I still want to clarify this: No, you are just anthropomorphizing them. They don't have "fun" nor do they feel any emotion.
Robin Filer because most of them are only "dynamically stable", which means they can only be upright when they keep jumping. Also without joints they are not good at handling tough terrain which is a major goal for the study of robotics legged locomotion.
What I really like about these machines is that they work in an almost completely different way to other robots. These robots can actually react to environments around them and it can keep its balance, it doesn't have some crappy pre-written program just running in the background. BigDog and PETMAN show this well when the guys comes up and tries to push the robot over, it just instantly reacts to this force and balances itself. Pure f*cking genius!
It started with the Genereal Electrics walking jeep. That was back in the sixties. The ideas just surpassed the tech so the shelved it and waited for everything to catch up but it was amazing how far they got. The kind of progress that made you wonder just how far they could have pushed it if fueled by another world war.
Wow that's soooo cool! For the cantering: notice that a horse does not place each pair of legs simultaneously, rather one slightly before the other. That would give it a smoother motion.
0:58 like that's a impressive even now. But I can't imagine how relieved, excited, and overall the amount of accomplishment you feel when you see your creation do a literal backflip. In the 80s BTW 🤯 Maybe it's just because I was born in the early 2000s, but hearing about life before 2000 just sounded like they didn't have much technology at all. But I'm sure that's wrong and they were more advanced than I thought.
Extremely fun! You enjoy making them don't you? The initial high-speed capability for some of these models are far more impressive than BigDog or PETMAN but I can see how they lack in the utility department. Regardless it must have been very inspiring to see these early models take off and shine in the areas you hoped they would.
@Puleczech No, cockroaches can learn, track food, avoid light, and engage in complex cleaning and mating behaviors. They can also adapt easily to rough terrain, unlike these robots, and don't need to be plugged in :) . Not dissing the robot creators in any way, I'm just saying that they still have a ways to go before they create anything as sophisticated as a cockroach.
Does anyone else remember a 1980's/1990(X) documentary on the Discovery Channel featuring some of these and others from Japan? It had a lot of classical music and a British/Australian female narrator. An early segment featured the old GE 'Walking Truck' clip.
These are all constrained by tethers and fairly basic. None of these bots could operate on uneven ground or outdoors because they're far too simple. Sure. These can run, but they can't walk or react to unforeseen obstacles. Stuff like Atlas and Petman need gyroscopes to prevent themselves from falling, and they need their arms to stabilize themselves, and to get themselves up when their systems for stabilization fail. Meanwhile all of the bipeds in this video are attached to tethers AND to a rod that keeps them on-track.
Nathan Williams yep. And they cost hundreds of thousands to make and produce. Which creates the issues we have with bipedal robots - They tend to be far too fragile to trust on uneven ground, and it's very difficult to supply power to them without significantly increasing the weight, and therefore the amount of energy needed to keep them running. It's a very delicate game of balance.
You don't need knees if your legs are cylinders. Somehow I find this video oddly cute. Its like watching your child taking their first steps. _This does put a smile on my face._
I think the pistons are the limit here because the software is strong. Somebody would need to invent artificial tendons (I hear some metals change shape with currents). When they achieve that, watch out.
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It's like watching old aperture science videos.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this... it's kind of creepy knowing that they've been working on this stuff for this long and we've only started seeing the more polished stuff in more recent years.
I think so too.
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SAME
Yes. But I love reading old comments
Watching these robots running around like there's no tomorrow puts a smile on my face.
RussianOrphan1 cause there willl be no tomorrow one theyvare set out
@@mozog1g2 lol
Is it me, or do these robots look like they are having fun.
Jolly happy day.
Lets see..
-Jumping gleefully: Check
-Doing actions: Check
-Randomly flipping: Check
Yep, they are
James Cioffi so you would think someone having a seizure is fun?
they are people too!
I get it's just a joke, but I still want to clarify this: No, you are just anthropomorphizing them. They don't have "fun" nor do they feel any emotion.
It's skipping along so happy and free.
That was unbelievably funny
compare this things to atlas or handle, technology has really come far
@@petemiller519 as long as I live 70-80 years I don't care what happens to humanity afterwards
Very true
Yeah and Spot
Not really. This is pretty steady and slow progression in 40 (!!) years.
And to think this is still impressive even for today’s standards. Boston dynamics was always ahead of their time...
"Yes sir, the doodads are running at peak efficiency"
Yes, sir. the doodads are at peak efficiency
To think this technology is almost 40 years old at it's earliest...
1:01, after decades of efforts, Atlas finally made it recently.
Jiansen Zheng atlas can stand up
Jiansen Zheng atlas can stand up.Thats the problem
0:53 me when I get a 100 on my test
without studying
I'm not sure why but I laughed my ass off when I saw that comment
No...
I love how they all start cheering when it does a flip
The progress they have made over the years is mind blowing.
Something feels weird seeing a pair of disembodied legs running around and doing tricks.
Dies anybody else want to mount a chair on one of those things and ride it?
Me :D
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Hell yeah, only if it wasn't that noisy
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@@SapphFire you here? :D
why aren't their more robots like this?? seriously these robots are amazing they can run really fast and can jump really high and can do back flips!
Robin Filer because most of them are only "dynamically stable", which means they can only be upright when they keep jumping. Also without joints they are not good at handling tough terrain which is a major goal for the study of robotics legged locomotion.
*there
Locomotion is hard. Really hard.
Robin Filer because straight legs are unpractical in a real world. they do run fast but robots now can run fast and are more capable.
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What I really like about these machines is that they work in an almost completely different way to other robots. These robots can actually react to environments around them and it can keep its balance, it doesn't have some crappy pre-written program just running in the background. BigDog and PETMAN show this well when the guys comes up and tries to push the robot over, it just instantly reacts to this force and balances itself. Pure f*cking genius!
Pogo-Trons and backflip bots? only scientists
The first one looks like a UFO on a pogo stick.
That front flip is incredibly impressive.
the balance that these people have engineered into their machines is wonderful!
I remember seeing this same footage from a NatGeo special in 1994.
0:34
If thisthing comes running for you, you’re dead
To think we came from this...to a walking humanoid robot. This is truly amazing :)
0:55 Holy- that must have been the first time a robot ever did a blackflip and back in the 80s.
Needs to be played with vaporwave
I've always wondered how those data and power cables didn't snap when doing flips.
i love like at 1:19 the robot's like: lets go on an ADVENTURE and the engineer's like ...not again...
It started with the Genereal Electrics walking jeep. That was back in the sixties. The ideas just surpassed the tech so the shelved it and waited for everything to catch up but it was amazing how far they got. The kind of progress that made you wonder just how far they could have pushed it if fueled by another world war.
This was many Years ago and they already learned how to get them to start doing backflips.
Brilliant! I love seeing the development of this tech. What an incredible accomplishment!
Wow that's soooo cool! For the cantering: notice that a horse does not place each pair of legs simultaneously, rather one slightly before the other. That would give it a smoother motion.
Watching these videos in 2024 just after Boston Dynamics introduced their new humanoid Atlas robot is amazing!
Amazing. They have surely come a long way. Good job.
0:58-1:11 That clip was done for the short film called "On the Run" taken from "Computer Animation Festival vol. 2.0"
That one robot that does front flips and backflips still amazes me
0:58 like that's a impressive even now. But I can't imagine how relieved, excited, and overall the amount of accomplishment you feel when you see your creation do a literal backflip. In the 80s BTW 🤯
Maybe it's just because I was born in the early 2000s, but hearing about life before 2000 just sounded like they didn't have much technology at all. But I'm sure that's wrong and they were more advanced than I thought.
00:24 "I'm a lil teacup short and stout, tip me over and pour me out"
robot: get on my level humans i have no fear
Newt Funny
I like the robots that come out of Boston Dynamics... They never disappoint me...
So much progress since then
If these robots had more modern technology and had a screen that showed emotions, these could totally pass as pet robots.
*why do i want one now?*
Those frontflips are damn amazing
These robots are awesome!
This is awesome. It is old, but still cool. I would love to own one!
I cannot wait to see these types of videos in an intro compilation to a movie of robots invading the world
Extremely fun! You enjoy making them don't you? The initial high-speed capability for some of these models are far more impressive than BigDog or PETMAN but I can see how they lack in the utility department. Regardless it must have been very inspiring to see these early models take off and shine in the areas you hoped they would.
That one at 30 seconds just freaks me out imagine that thing chasing you.
@Puleczech No, cockroaches can learn, track food, avoid light, and engage in complex cleaning and mating behaviors. They can also adapt easily to rough terrain, unlike these robots, and don't need to be plugged in :) .
Not dissing the robot creators in any way, I'm just saying that they still have a ways to go before they create anything as sophisticated as a cockroach.
you plan skynet since 1980... TERMINATOR WASN`T SCI FI!
Very cool; could you make a rideable version?
Does anyone else remember a 1980's/1990(X) documentary on the Discovery Channel featuring some of these and others from Japan? It had a lot of classical music and a British/Australian female narrator. An early segment featured the old GE 'Walking Truck' clip.
Is it just me or at 0:46 these boxes sound exactly like Half-Life?
Wonderful to see where it came from and how far till now.
“Yes sir, the doodads are operating at peak efficiency”
This is so frickin' creepy. But amazing looking back, while modern Atlas versions doing parcour like it's nothing.
The future robots will want to see these ancestors.
I dont think I've ever seen someone as happy as that 2-legged robot dude
just imagine that you have the brains to make one of these. the joy....
they've come a long way
that 4-legged prototype looks like a walking table
How in the fuck can these things be so old yet we still struggle with bipedal robots today? What the shit am I missing? Massive gyroscopes inside?
Who is struggeling with bipedal robots today?
These are all constrained by tethers and fairly basic. None of these bots could operate on uneven ground or outdoors because they're far too simple. Sure. These can run, but they can't walk or react to unforeseen obstacles. Stuff like Atlas and Petman need gyroscopes to prevent themselves from falling, and they need their arms to stabilize themselves, and to get themselves up when their systems for stabilization fail. Meanwhile all of the bipeds in this video are attached to tethers AND to a rod that keeps them on-track.
+Tetrachromia the tethers are only there to supply power and so that if the robot falls it doesn't just smash onto the ground and destroy the robot
Nathan Williams yep. And they cost hundreds of thousands to make and produce. Which creates the issues we have with bipedal robots - They tend to be far too fragile to trust on uneven ground, and it's very difficult to supply power to them without significantly increasing the weight, and therefore the amount of energy needed to keep them running. It's a very delicate game of balance.
These are the happiest little skipping robots I have ever seen.
“Yay!!! The engineers said i get to go to the park today :DDDD”
1:05
Thats it, THATS IT DEAAAWAWAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Just happily strolling allowing.
this is amazing, even today 2019
These robots look like they are having a hell of a time
They have come a long way.
From this happy thing to atlas, that does parkour
Yes sir, the doodads are operating at peak effeciency
The 2nd to 6th one was so awesome
Doodle jump???
Wow how time just makes things progress so much, I'm so proud of humanity sometimes.
I saw this years ago on American Scientific Frontiers... always wondered where it went.
the fact that it's possible to make machinery like this is actually insane! 0o0
Terminator 5: Hopping day.
And that was filmed in 80s
Holy...
I remember this being featured in a computer animation video way back before DVDs were commonplace.
0:30 la-lala-lalalala
until...
0:38
0:52 holy shit i didn't expect that! :O
Boston Dynamics Leg Technology are far beyond any other walking machine. A M A Z I N G !!!!!!!!
The Pixar lamp needs to step up his game
Yes sir, the doodads are operating at peak efficiency
Они еще не знали, как далеко они зайдут...
"Yes, Sir. The doodads are operating at peak efficiency."
Man.... this was long time ago too... amazing.
They look so happy
I didnt know we had this technology until now, let alone in the 80's and 90's
I started to watch this while listening to Ochre - Glassmaker, and it fits very well.
anyone can tell me what do they use for the legs? pistons?
Yes sir the doodads are working at peak efficiency
They have come along way since this
You don't need knees if your legs are cylinders.
Somehow I find this video oddly cute. Its like watching your child taking their first steps.
_This does put a smile on my face._
Fantastic---especially the saltos
This video looks older then the older videos
I think the pistons are the limit here because the software is strong. Somebody would need to invent artificial tendons (I hear some metals change shape with currents). When they achieve that, watch out.
When robots act happier than you can
1:18 Spot's great grandpa!
ah yes the doodads are working at peek efficiency