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BOSTON DYNAMICS, THE robotics company Google (now under the umbrella that is Alphabet) bought back in 2013, has been making steady progress with its robots.
Of the many robots it’s testing, there’s one called Spot which can regain its balance after it has been kicked or shoved, while the latest updates comes from its six-foot humanoid robot Atlas.
Now Spot is able to open doors thanks to a new limb and Atlas is becoming more human-like.
The demo shows Atlas walking on rocky terrain, keeping its balance after being hit by an object and walking through the woods without a care in the world.
Boston Dynamics’ founder Marc Raibert talked about how the focus was on “balance and dynamics”, mirroring the way humans and animals walk.
The robot is still tethered to a power source (for now), but it manages to wander down a woodland path without too much trouble.
“I’m not saying it can do everything you can do, but you can imagine if we keep pushing, we’ll get there”, says Raibert. You can imagine they’ll get there sooner rather than later.
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Eamo, for your own sake lad don’t go
This is grown up people stuff
I often wonder ,do you ever wonder how you ended where you are !
Seriously I wouldn’t have you look after an ice cream van ,yet here you are ,made for life
@Chris: no fan of eamonn Ryan but do you think o leary is a grown up. He’s a privileged individual with way too much power.
@Mic JHintl: he earned everything he has, went to school, college and university became an accountant joined a fledgling airline, used his accounting skills to help build one of the biggest airlines in the world. That’s not privileged that’s called hard work.
@Mic JHintl: NONSENSE
@Mic JHintl: Your comment proves how little you know about the man.
Eamo needs to fly off into the sunset. And take the whole Green Looney Party with him.
@Gerard Carey: HE won’t fly, Ryanair …because they don’t have First Class
the problem we have here is one participent lives in the real world and one lives in lala land …Guess which is which
@William O leary: Both live on LaLa land.
And each have their cult followers.
@William O leary: do you think o leary lives in reality?
Is it on TV anywhere?
@Alan Kennedy: I think everyone understands that politics is entertainment these days, as such this is pay-per-view level content!
@Alan Kennedy: its on ppv powered by solar panels only 50 green backs.
Hope o leary shows him the door halfway during the meeting if he starts spouting party line blah.
A business man meeting with a buffer. A man who knows aviation vs a man who knows growing lettuce.
@another one? what’s going on is the semi state sec: haaaaaaaaaaa
@another one? what’s going on is the semi state sec: *meeting with a bluffer
Hahaha eammo is gas
Never achieved anything but costing the citizens money with some dreadful missteps
Mick ..world famous incredibly wealthy and respected throughout Europe (apart from politicians and begrudgers )
Haha this showdown …it’s so embarrassing is funny
Why is he meeting him at all? What possible positive outcome does he think he will achieve? Clueless doesn’t begin to sum him up.
@Keyser Söze: Wants that runway open.
Michael O’ Leary is speaking the truth something sleep Ryan would know nothing about O’ Leary is worth 20 sleeps Ryan’s
@Mike Fortune: he’s a climate change denier which makes him a liar.
@Mic JHintl: He doesn’t deny it. He just doesn’t think we should all go back 50 years and sabotage ourselves needlessly. He believes in progress and technology.
Eamonn Ryan is more of a liar. “I don’t want to interfere in the planning process”…. Unless it suits me. Fair play to MO’L for calling out his hypocrisy.
Ryan is going to be eaten alive. O Leary astute and capable, Ryan the complete opposite mixed with a unjustified self confidence bordering on arrogance
I hope Michael O Leary shows him up for the dangerous lunatic he is.
@Paul Kavanagh: He will tear him to shreads! Eamo will be snoring after the first minute….
Eamon should go and look him straight in the eye, oops, I forgot, he can’t do that.
@Denis Ryan: nor can you keyboard warrior
@smatrix mantra: Zzzzzzzzzzz
Well eamon has no problem throwing out the planning system when he wants to eg wind farms ect
Eamon Ryan finds Michael O Learys comments personally abusive…this is what it takes to wake the man up.
Would recommend the two meet as adults, and they try and listen to their arguments. Bullying your way through hardly works long-term.
O leary as usual is getting what he wants. Plenty of attention from the people that matter. If I was to hurl abuse at the Minister For Housing would I get bumped up the list? Sadly no but Mr o Leary would
Lettuce takes bets on how those goes down my money is on O’Leary. I don’t Carrot at all fer Ryan and hope O’Leary makes him dance to his own Beet. Now Romaine calm O’Leary just Kale his vibe and find you inner Peas to put Ryan back in his planters box!! LOL…
Really Smatrix
..trump putin jinping. All bully’s all world leaders
Musk .jobs zuck . All bully’s all billionaires
Man meets Boy (ryan))
Too many schoolyard antics inherited from experimental theorists, so even if there can be common ground on environmental concerns, it is unlikely that both men can raise their level of consideration to where this matter is dealt with as a scientific method issue that began a number of centuries ago.
“Rule III. The qualities of bodies which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.” Newton
It is not so unbelievably difficult to identify that the conditions in a common greenhouse do not scale up to the Earth’s atmosphere at the centre of empirical modelling no more than the fall of an apple equates to planetary orbital motion.
He’ll DESTROY it
Is the country now being run by and for Ryanair. If anyone else insulted a government minister on social media I doubt that the would have that Minister running to have a meeting with him
@Bat Collins: If that person brings billions into Ireland I’m sure they would.
“Set the record straight”
Good luck with that. O’Leary will have chewed Ryan up and spat him out before he’s even had a chance to open his briefcase
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