Christian Hubicki

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #949 - Sep 16 2023 podcast

And legged robots are all about impacts.

What are those feet doing to the ground?

impacting them over and over and over again every step.

And if your control algorithm is good, it should be able to handle that variation.

But that's a long process, and it's difficult.

It's hard.

So I really respect everyone in the field who's tackling it.

Right?

And I've seen some of these things at the research proposal stage.

You're seeing the companies are ready to go right now.

What I see as a faculty member, they're soliciting ideas, and NASA will put out proposals with very specific ideas of what to look for.

And they were looking for things shortly after impact, like what you're talking about, Steve.

And as part of the call for proposals, they showed this graphic of what it's like very shortly after a collision.

And the idea was that if there's certain kinds of collisions, they will spread out if you let it go long enough.

So if you get intercepted early enough, everything will be still kind of in a cluster.

And I was looking at it.

I was like, oh, is this something that's doable?

And I was looking at it.

I was like, after five minutes, they were already many miles apart.

I'm like, oh, my goodness.

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