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A dance team with four -legged robots from Boston Dynamics appeared on “America’s Got Talent” to perform a synchronized routine at “Do’t’t Stop Me Now” by Queen.
Their performance was impressive enough to win four “yes” votes from judges – but one of the five robots experienced a fear, perhaps, and was closed in the middle of the routine. But the show must continue, therefore, the other four robots have persisted.
“Can I be honest with you?” J. Simon Cowell asked at the end of their performance. “I don’t want to say that cruel. It was strangely better than one of them dead … because it showed how difficult it was. “
Cowell has a point – we can better understand technology when we see where and how it can fail.
For many years, Boston Dynamics has been tightened on the misadventures of his robots, cultivating an image of these perfect futuristic beings who cannot hurt. But a few years ago, the company shared images This shows how precisely the robots must be designed to create the types of videos that viral.
“A natural consequence of the push of robots to their limit is that, sometimes, these limits are respected”, Boston Dynamics Written in a blog article At the time, tell how his atlas robots often lost balance and fell while doing the parkour.
In a silver lining for Boston Dynamics, the imperfect television performance of the robots could end up being more memorable than a perfectly executed dance (I dare to say, robotic?). Remember that Deflated pikachu?
