Either CGI or they took inputs from body sensors and used it to program the robots movement. As in the movements were scripted and not done with AI.
Not CGI. Very real. But - to your point - this is 100% a programmed routine.
While the movement is scripted, the intelegence is in the fine motor balance that happens in real time. That's the impressive part.
Couldn't the fine motor balance be figured out beforehand?
Right. Motor variability, material elasticity, environmental changes, etc. all make that nearly impossible.
Think of it like balancing a pole (broom, etc.) vertically on your hand. You can do this because you have real time feedback systems. Close your eyes and you can't. You still have tactile feedback, but that isn't enough. This is what they are catching up to with the machines - gyroscopes, vision/range sensors, pressure sensors, etc. all create feedback loops that allow the robot to respond in near real time.
If you notice - there are LOTS of rubber skid marks on the boxes where the robot hit the box and pushed off at a different angle. I'm sure they ran that course many 100's of times. You can see how there are slight deviations in where the rubber feet hit the boxes. Lots of imperfections in the "real world" and the robot must respond and hold the path.
gyro's and firmware all working together. You put a problem it hasn't been programmed to deal with like slippery then the shit hits the robot brain. No AI just tons of scripting. Just humans are clever and sneaky and will find the one thing the nerds overlooked or found to hard to fix or were told was to expensive or time consuming to worry about like pit trap looking like solid surface would fuck one of them or marbles that was suggested before or better ball bearing so unless it's been programmed to drag it's feet units it's fucked.
They whole point of these demonstrations is to show they can make a robot that won't fall over when subjected to different stress.
It's like a really fancy Segway. Useless but an interesting proof of concept.
Sure, if you're God.
Just look at the 'robot' that comes on screen second, Painfully easy to see that it's computer graphics.
the marks on the soft ground seem pretty well animated then
They animated CGI robots to the point where morons believe it's real and you think "marks on the ground" are the impressive part?
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