Hi everyone,
Here is an article about a robot dog that resists human efforts to prevent it from opening a door.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/02/21/people-freaked-out-after-robot-dogs-opened-a-door-now-theyre-resisting-humans/?utm_term=.ced5a9aef012***********
In one of the scariest moments in the movie “Jurassic Park,” a pair of intelligent Velociraptors, brought back to Earth by man’s hubris, defy an assumption about their limitations: They open a kitchen door.
Now imagine that the raptors are real, transformed into headless robot dogs that can negotiate stairs, fling open doors with their robotic claws and generally overcome the puny obstacles offered up by the human technicians at Boston Dynamics.
The robotics company posted a video last week, showing two of their yellow SpotMini robots helping each other enter a door. Now the company has released a sequel in which a single 2˝-foot-tall robot is controlled by an unseen human driver who directs the robot claw to the door handle and issues a “Go” command. From then on, the SpotMini’s camera-guided, autonomous programming kicks in to fulfill its mission to open the door.
These robots are designed to learn from their obstacles, and it seems the greatest obstacles so far are humans, not doors. Humans program them with memory. The robots, therefore, cannot help but remember when a human might stand in its way.
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Cheers.
Sriram
