Dynamics – Spress https://en.spress.net Spress is a general newspaper in English which is updated 24 hours a day. Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:30:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 191965906 Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Work This Year https://en.spress.net/boston-dynamics-robot-dog-work-this-year/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:30:07 +0000 https://en.spress.net/boston-dynamics-robot-dog-work-this-year/ Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Spot, has been on duty for one year. This year, a total of hundreds of Spots have been sold all over the world. Interestingly, Boston Dynamics did not preset any application scenarios for Spot at the time. “It’s up to you to decide how to use it.” What did it do? There is a big rope skipping. Have a walk with beautiful women on the beach. There is also a dance of ghost animals in professional baseball games in Japan. Even being bought “pee beer”… Yes, that’s right, Spot was almost broken this year. But a robot dog priced at 530,000 yuan can be used far beyond becoming one of the most expensive toys. It also does a lot of business: Enter crime scenes, construction sites, power plants and mines… Spot has already shown its skills in hundreds of harsh environments and has begun to show its ability to control the world (bushi) little by little. Spot this year What business have you done? I won’t mention those who enter the house to enforce the law and enter the crime scene. The first is to conduct reconnaissance in some ultra-hazardous places where wheeled robots and drones are inaccessible. In Canada, Spot entered the world’s deepest base metal mine (Kid Creek Mine), went deep into the mining area to conduct safety inspections to protect miners and keep them away from potential dangers. No matter what kind of mining terrain, it can be easily controlled. In Ukraine, Spot entered the site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, put on a radiation detection device on his back, and crossed the safety quarantine zone. In the deconstruction of the Chernobyl Sarcophagus (the sheltered structure of the nuclear power plant), it is used to regularly assess the evolving radiation pollution hazards. Because as everyone knows, compared with wheeled and crawler robots, the main advantage of Spot is its four small “claws”, which can significantly reduce the contact with the ground. Spot is also present in the substation of the US National Grid. Due to its extremely high cost of downtime and inaccessibility to humans during operation, a routine inspection of a high-voltage facility the size of a football field was left to it. And no robot has entered the place before. All kinds of dangerous places can be entered, not to mention ordinary construction sites. Spot is off the construction site! It can obtain data automatically, accurately and frequently, and provide the overall progress status of the construction site. At Foster & Partners, a world-renowned architectural planning company, people use Spot to monitor construction sites and scan existing conditions to support various renovation-related work. It can also be scanned after completion to compare with the design model. In addition, Spot has autonomous charging and remote operation capabilities, with a series of sensors that can act as eyes and ears, and perform routine inspections at remote production sites that are difficult for humans to access. BP sent it to the Mad Dog drilling platform nearly 200 miles offshore to help humans perform remote monitoring, avoid the risks and large costs of transporting workers back and forth into such harsh environments, and improve operational efficiency. Spot is there to undertake the tasks of daily facility inspections, including reading the readings and listening to whether there are any abnormalities in mechanical noise. … From mines, nuclear accident sites, offshore drilling platforms, to construction sites, crime scenes…Different positions and tasks, Spot’s figure is frequently active all over the world. It can be said that Spot is not only a smart tool, but also a valuable and good teammate. The ability of this Boston Power Dog is amazed by more people, so a variety of “fake products” have also appeared. However, I don’t know if their capabilities can match or surpass Spot. And for Spot’s first anniversary of working as a part-timer, Boston Dynamics also compiled a “performance review” film specifically for it: The above skills make it difficult for many people to conceal their love and excitement, and sigh with all kinds of Spot and yyds! But to say that its most favorite skill is the pee beer trained by the tubing brother Michael Reeves. I don’t know what surprises this Boston Power Dog can bring to everyone in the future~

]]> 26743 Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Learns to “Pee”! Why don’t you take a walk on the street? https://en.spress.net/boston-dynamics-robot-dog-learns-to-pee-why-dont-you-take-a-walk-on-the-street/ Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:25:07 +0000 https://en.spress.net/boston-dynamics-robot-dog-learns-to-pee-why-dont-you-take-a-walk-on-the-street/

Xinzhiyuan Report

Source: verge

Edit: yaxin

【Xin Zhiyuan Guide】Boston Dynamics Robot Dog gets another new skill. Recently, a YouTube blogger, Michael Reeves, used his technical expertise to tune the robot dog Spot to “pee” like a real dog.

Some time ago, a woman in Florida, the United States, “walked her dog” on the beach aroused onlookers.

Because what she is holding with the “rope” in her hand is actually a Boston-powered robot dog!

Now, the robot dog Spot has also learned to “pee”, this is the real dog…

And this peeing dog was “trained” by a YouTube blogger, Michael Reeves, using his technical expertise and talented mind.

Next time you go to “walk the dog”, you must bring it, the scene is very windy! “Reminder: Be careful of getting tickets when you urinate anywhere”

Dancing, skipping rope, cleaning the house, watering flowers, going to Tesla and other factories to “move bricks”, and now Spot has learned to “pee” again.

It can be said that Spot Robot Dog got a new skill.

But the location where the outlet pipe is installed is too “evil-interesting.”

Robot Dog Spot: I am not a real person, but you are a real dog!

The robot dog Spot “urines” beer into the glass and currently has more than 7 million views on YouTube.

Let’s take a video and feel it as a whole~

The original idea of ​​blogger Michael Reeves was to make Spot the robot dog a good helper who can help people pour beer.

In the video, Michael kindly invites a friend to drink beer, but friends who see this scene should feel crazy.

“Dried this cup” really needs to overcome a great psychological barrier!

Netizens are curious, “How does it taste?”

At present, the accuracy rate of the robot dog under the supervision of Michael in pouring beer into the glass is only 35%.

Although it has not yet reached the level of “precise delivery”, this idea has already aroused enthusiastic comments from netizens.

Let the robot dog “pee” into the cup, how did Michael manage it successfully?

Training for 6 months, named “Pissbot 9000”

Michael said, “Training Spot requires some smart programming, and it took 6 months to complete.”

First, an important device is needed, a camera that can recognize where the cup is.

Since BD’s high-quality cameras cost nearly $30,000, Michael decided to use an off-the-shelf home surveillance camera, a wireless receiver and AV adapter.

Michael programmed the robot dog to find the brightest pixels recorded by the camera to identify the white interior of the red cup.

To avoid the camera’s confusion between the white ground and the white interior of the cup, Michael used the inverse square law in physics to change the point of light and project light into the surrounding environment.

The inverse square law is defined as: in any physical law, the distribution or intensity of a certain physical quantity will decrease in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from the source.

The modification that Michael had to make was not simply putting a small bucket on Spot’s back and then reprogramming.

He also designed a nozzle gimbal to aim the cup more precisely.

This device uses a servomechanism and a solenoid driven by the Raspberry-Pi “vision system” to ensure that the robot does not miss the cup.

The results of it? 35% accuracy rate.

As demonstrated in the video, “urine” sometimes spills out and messes up the floor.

By the way, this trained robot dog is no longer called Spot, and Michael named it “Pissbot 9000”.

Open source SDK, do it yourself DIY

In June 2020, Boston Dynamics opened the Robot Dog Spot to the public for public sale for $75,000.

It can walk at 3 miles per hour, climb terrain, avoid obstacles, see 360-degree images, and perform some programmed tasks.

In addition, it can also map the environment, sense and avoid obstacles, climb stairs and open doors. It can perform dangerous tasks in a variety of uninhabitable environments, such as nuclear power plants, offshore oil fields and construction sites.

In order to cooperate with the sales of this robot dog product, Boston Dynamics also open sourced Spot’s Python scripting language SDK.

You can directly control Spot with Python. Boston has open sourced Spot’s SDK, which means that after you buy Spot, you can use your own DIY functions. It is not a dream to have your own dedicated robot dog.

Just in February, a spoof organization in the United States tied a Tipman 98 paintball gun to the body of the Boston Dynamics Internet celebrity robot dog Spot, and let it wander in the gallery.

Naturally, this incident aroused heated discussions among netizens.

Boston Dynamics publicly condemned the violent, harmful, and threatening behavior for this.

Michael Reeves’s own DIY robot dog allows us to see the unknown side of Spot.

It is definitely a master who can tune a robot dog so well!

Reference materials:

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/4/12/22379501/boston-dynamics-spot-pee-beer-michael-reeves

https://hothardware.com/news/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-dog-beer-delivery-pee-blast#.YHRmHyWR13Q.twitter

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