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Animats ◴[] No.41844346[source]
That was obvious to anyone with any experience with real-world robots.

Nice piece of machinery, though. Boston Dynamics' humanoids were clunky electrohydraulic mechanisms borrowed from their horse-type robots. All-electric is now possible and much simpler. Schatft was the first to get this working, and they had to liquid-cool the motors. Don't know if Tesla has to liquid cool. They do that in the cars, so they certainly understand liquid-cooled electric motors.

I suspect that body balance and possibly walking were automated. It's hard to balance a teleoperated robot manually, and robotic biped balancing has been working for years now.

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1. robomartin ◴[] No.41845101[source]
> That was obvious to anyone with any experience with real-world robots.

Yup. Exactly. The term for this is "Telechir":

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-93104-8_...

My kids have been around lots of robots of all kinds. The very first comment they made while watching the event was: "The robots are being remotely operated. There's no way that's autonomous."

Nice looking machines. Far from being practical outside of a highly controlled environment. This does feel like progress though.