You can open doors yourself Boston · Dynamics 'SpotMini' can be completed by thinking oneself even if disturbed by human beings

Four-legged robot developed by Boston · Dynamics "SpotMiniIsIt is possible to hold the door knob and open the doorAlthough it is a robot, its excellence is not just the ability to open the door. This robot has the ability to do the opening operation of the door, even if it is disturbed by a human being, without doing so, and to complete the task myself by doing it over and over again many times until it succeeds.

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SpotMini-kun who has appeared in the movie "Testing Robustness" released by Boston Dynamics (Robustness Test). When walking around like a movie last time and finding a door ......


I try to open the knob with his mouth. At this time, SpotMini received only the command "Open the door", and SpotMini thought that SpotMini was thinking about all the actions of finding, gripping, pulling on the door knob.


There, a man with a hockey stick appeared ... ...


I press in on the head of SpotMini that tried to add the door knob with "stick" and "hurry" and get in the way.


Mobilisely even in the way, SpotMini-kun who opened the door with a doorknob again got to work further. A man holds the door with his hand and disturbs him not to open it any more. The appearance of SpotMini-kun who inevitably withstands this will look like a blunder.


When screwing in the neck and trying to open the door ... ...


The man attacks pushing the door to pinch SpotMini-kun in the door. Cut it out already……


Furthermore, it pulls the rope attached to the butt part and tries to peel off from the door.


SpotMini-kun trying to aim at the door somehow while falling off the cover of the butt as "colon". Anyhow I can understand that I am trying hard and trying to complete my duty.


This is the end of the man's distraction. SpotMini-kun who endured a lot of difficulties added the door knob again ......


I left the room. Perhaps because of his mind, the moment when he seemed to make a gesture like gazing at somehow somehow.


Like this, SpotMini understands that even though it receives interference from the outside, it has the ability to carry out the task given to himself to the last, and thinking circuit. In this experiment, another staff not shown in the movie took SpotMini to the door, just pointed to the door handle and sent "Go" command, after that SpotMini judged the situation by himself Then it went out of the door.

SpotMini which received "Go" at the 42-second timing in the movie recognizes the door knob with the camera attached to the arm portion, while the camera of the main body recognizes the opening / closing state of the door, opens the door We are collecting necessary information to go. After that, software in the main body automatically recognizes the movements, balance, necessary actions etc of the body by themselves, so that it is possible to automatically perform a series of actions necessary to complete the mission.

This is similar to the ability that the previously announced bipedal walking robot "Atlas" had. Atlas instructed to lift a square box and carry it, like SpotMini, is hanging out with a hockey stick, but even without such a disturbance Atlas will work quietly to silently do the task It continues. Rather, by learning repeated interference, it is such a level that Boston Dynamics' AI is a bit worried whether he will remember "hockey stick = evil".

A surreal movie that performs a mission without fear even if a humanoid robot "Atlas" is destroyed - GIGAZINE


For SpotMini it was a little poor picture but in fact SpotMini is a "robot" that does not have feelings. That is why it may mean that the robot has evolved until it looks like the "feeling" as if the back is turned back. At the end of the YouTube comment section, Boston Dynamics writes "Jokes like" that "This test does not irritate or hurt the robot" is a part that makes such evolution feel.