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01 / belief
“I think a technical scientist could appreciate that we were capturing some of the things that are important in human locomotion without it looking like it, without having a knee, an ankle.”
02 / belief
“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.”
03 / belief
“I think having an approach that leaves you unsatisfied until you’ve embraced the bigger problem is the diligence I’m talking about.”
04 / belief
“I think having the robots move in a way that’s evocative of life is pretty exciting.”
05 / belief
“Mostly we learned that something that small doesn’t look very exciting when it’s running.”
06 / belief
“I think we’re going to find a mating of the two and we’ll have the best of both worlds.”
07 / belief
“Will they increase productivity? And I think we’re getting very close to that. I don’t think we’re quite there still.”
08 / belief
“Otherwise, it would have to really forcefully move everything around all the time which probably some solutions do, but I think you end up with a more efficient and more graceful thing if you’re taking into account what the machine wants to do.”
09 / belief
“BigDog was the result of Alan Rudolph at DARPA starting a biodynamics program. And he put out a request for proposals and I think there were 42 proposals written and three got funded.”
10 / belief
“If you watch a human do a robot animation, which is a dance style where you jerk around and you pop and lock and all that stuff, I think the robots could show up the humans by doing unstable oscillations and things that are faster than a person could.”
11 / belief
“There’s this idea called passive dynamics, which says that although you can use computers and actuators to make a motion, a mechanical system can make a motion just by itself if it gets stimulated the right way. So Tad McGeer, I think in the mid 80s, maybe it was in the late 80s, started to work on that.”
12 / belief
“I think that Boston Dynamics is owned primarily by Hyundai now, and I think that the skills of Hyundai in making cars can be brought to bear in making robots that are less expensive and more reliable and those kinds of things.”
13 / belief
“I think the basic paradigm for navigating a space is to get some kind of sensor that tells you where an obstacle is and what’s open, build a map and then go through the space.”
14 / belief
“Technical fearlessness means being willing to take on a problem that you don’t know how to solve, and study it, figure out an entry point, maybe a simplified version, or a simplified solution or something, learn from the stepping stone, and go back and eventually make a solution that meets your goals. I think that’s really important.”
15 / belief
“I think that intelligence is a lot of different things and I think some things, computers are already smarter than people, and some things they’re not even close.”