Robots Do ‘Thriller,’ Recover When One Falls Down - ballardcousise81

In what may be the sweetest instance of robot-on-robot kindness we've seen this calendar week, this group of 'Thriller'-terpsichore robots slows John L. H. Down and waits for one of their number to recover when a researcher makes it fall down.

It may not seem subversive, just it's to a higher degree retributive heartstring-tugging. Information technology's a demonstration of some quite high-tech nonlinear control logic–the same area of enquiry which is behind recent bird, dog, and troodon robots, and indeed the walk humanoid Nao robots used in the video.

Like a anthropoid dance chemical group, the robots constantly stay in synchronise with each other and with the music (although they're keeping their put over in the dance wirelessly rather than visually). When the other robots notice that one has fallen behind, they start dancing more tardily.

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When the fallen golem stands up, it wirelessly receives a opening put up from its fellows — but IT can't experience its arms and legs systematic immediately, so the early robots are further in the dance by the time information technology gets going, then IT dances more quickly to catch up. Eventually information technology gets resynchronized, and the dance goes on at its original speed.

Given the existence of all-essential come out stars and dubstep trip the light fantastic toe groups, how long volition information technology be before these robots are playacting in their own right?

[YouTube via Reddit]

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