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James Vincent

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
512 total appearances

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Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

That's the goal.

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

And you have pretty good maps.

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One billion humanoid robots

You have a lot of other good information.

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One billion humanoid robots

And you can simulate that pretty well.

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One billion humanoid robots

Turns out that locomotion, which is walking, is similar.

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

There again, you want to avoid stuff.

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

You don't want to bump into things.

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

But you want to do a backflip.

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

That turns out to be pretty easy to simulate.

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

And everybody sees that and they project ahead.

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One billion humanoid robots

It's understandable.

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One billion humanoid robots

It's human nature.

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

Oh, robots can do this better than me.

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

So therefore, they can do everything better than me.

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

And that is a fallacy because they can't stack a little group of blocks of sugar cubes on your table very reliably at all.

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

And they can't pick up that glass.

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

You see a lot of hands that look very human-like, right?

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

They have very fast-moving joints, et cetera, and they look pretty human-like.

Today, Explained
One billion humanoid robots

But do they do anything interesting?

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One billion humanoid robots

I mean, how many times have you seen a robot hand tying up a sneaker?