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Lex Fridman: uncertainty

16 Feb 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

“I mean, it’s great testing, but it’s also, I don’t know, it’s just somehow extremely compelling demonstration of robotics in video form.”

— Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman
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uncertainty
Recorded
16 Feb 2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…The fun part, the hockey stick. And then yes, tugging on Spot as it’s trying to open the door. I mean, it’s great testing, but it’s also, I don’t know, it’s just somehow extremely compelling demonstration of robotics in video form. I learned something very early on with the first three-dimensional hopping machine. If you just show a video of it hopping, it’s a so what. If you show it falling over a couple of times, and you can see how easily and fast it falls over, then you appreciate what the robot’s doing when it’s doing its thing. So I think the reaction you just gave to the robot getting interfered with or tested while it’s going through the door, it’s showing you the scope of the solution.…

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