20 years ago

The blocker was always perception. Never the physical construction. Once perception fell every smart engineer in the world knew it was time to build. That's why we now have 100 robot startups.

Thing is, Japanese could’ve built everything- but they didn’t - smh, they stopped. Genuinely sus

@mrdoob They also demonstrated thought controlled commands on 2009. Really the difference is independence, the old one was playing back movements like a sequencer.

@mrdoob They were doing way more than just replaying actions:

🤣 can always rely on you to dig up old footage of the same capabilities

Asimo cost on the order of $1-3 million, with no thought for mass production. Figure is building a robot to be mass produced $50-100K.

Those Japanese bots were always based on 'rule-based' decision trees. Literally a bunch of if/else statements. That type of software was never going to work for autonomous bots The new humanoid robots use deep learning

Asimo was great but the new Unitree G1 is next-gen.

eye spy with my little eye… ZMP!

HONDA's ASIMO bipedal robot was a lovable robot. Its technology has been applied to many things.