[From Bruce Nevin (2017.09.21.18:23 ET)]
I see the Boston Dynamic dog robots linked near the bottom of your hackaday.io page, Rupert. As I understand it, Bill sent them the Little Man code and explanations of control. They didn’t reply, but their products got better.
A brief summary from Wikipedia: They developed BigDog for DARPA, and DI-Guy software for human simulation. The US Navy used DI-Guy to replace training videos for aircraft launch operations with simulations with DI-Guy characters. They transferred DI-Guy to VT MÄK (a company also in Cambridge, MA) just before being acquired by Google X. VT MÄK “develops and sells software for distributed simulations that system integrators, governments, and research institutions use to build and populate 3D simulated environments.” Last June, Google sold Boston Dynamics to a Japanese multinational, Softbank Group.
But the videos of their devices don’t convince me that they’re autonomous.
Unclear what Google kept and what Softbank bought.
Any insight into any of this?
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Rupert Young rupert@perceptualrobots.com wrote:
[From Rupert Young (2017.09.21 17.45)]
I've entered a robotic PCT system for the Hackaday 2017 prize
To give it some visibility and credibility it would be great ifyou could “like” the project, and “follow” my profile (requires
registering I think).
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Regards,
Rupert
