this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
530 points (96.5% liked)

Technology

59589 readers
3148 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
530
Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” (spectrum.ieee.org)
submitted 7 months ago by dominiquec@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
216 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

...replacing the previously hydraulic version.

Insert obligatory welcome statement here.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Wheels need roads and paths. Legs can walk over just about anything.

Specialized robots are great at doing one thing and terrible at doing everything else.

General humanoid robots can traverse and operate in environments that were designed and built for humans, and vice versa.

There’s a reason evolution settled on the tetrapod body plan. It’s very versatile. Walking on two legs just adds to that versatility.