A dance crew of four-legged robots from Boston Dynamics appeared on “America’s Got Talent” to carry out a synchronized routine to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.”
Their efficiency was spectacular sufficient to earn 4 “yes” votes from the judges — however one of many 5 robots skilled some stage fright, maybe, and shut down in the course of the routine. However the present should go on, so nonetheless, the 4 different robots continued.
“Can I be honest with you?” decide Simon Cowell requested on the conclusion of their efficiency. “I don’t mean this in a cruel way. It was weirdly better that one of them died… because it showed how difficult this was.”
Cowell has some extent — we are able to perceive the expertise higher after we see the place and the way it can fail.
For a few years, Boston Dynamics was tight-lipped in regards to the mishaps of its robots, cultivating a picture of those good, futuristic beings who can do no flawed. However a couple of years again, the corporate shared footage that exhibits how exactly engineered the robots have to be to create the sorts of videos that go viral.
“A natural consequence of pushing robots to their limit is that, sometimes, those limits are met,” Boston Dynamics wrote in a blog post on the time, recounting how its Atlas robots would usually lose steadiness and fall whereas doing parkour.
In a silver lining for Boston Dynamics, the robots’ imperfect tv efficiency would possibly find yourself being extra memorable than a superbly executed (dare I say, robotic?) dance. Keep in mind that deflated Pikachu?
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