[FRIAM] robots

[Frank Wimberly]

Maybe Google sold BD.

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
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Santa Fe, NM

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 8:11 AM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> my bad - used to buy lots of stuff stuff from Boston Scientific when I was
> a kid. In the Sixty Minutes clip they said that Mitsubishi now owns Boston
> Dynamics
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> davew
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> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021, at 7:25 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
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> They do have hips which are critical in maintaining balance.
>
> Not Boston Scientific but Boston Dynamics, which is now owned by Google
> but is still directed by my friend.
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> Frank
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> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 6:31 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dave,
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> In my physical anthropology class years ago I was taught that the most
> important innovation in human walking was *gluteus maximus, *the large
> muscle that connects the legs to the upper body and keeps us from falling
> over when we walk.  So far as I can see these robots HAVE not gluteus
> maximus.
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> What’s with that?
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> Nick Thompson
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Prof David West
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2021 5:40 PM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: [FRIAM] robots
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> Sixty Minutes did another segment on the robots of Boston Scientific
> (Frank knows the founder). Puff piece, in that they did not discuss the
> controversy of the $75,000 quadrupeds being sold to police departments, and
> uses to which they are being put.
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> But the 3 minute film of four robots, two bipeds, one quad, one wheeled
> doing the Mashed Potato was quite fun, and actually quite amazing.  Clip is
> earlier demo and does not show Mashed Potato dance.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFK9lkez32E
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> davew
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