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On Thursday, the day before the competition was to officially start, DARPA allowed the teams to conduct\u00a0a dress rehearsal, putting their robots\u00a0through the course\u00a0to see how they\u2019d do. During that dry run, not many robots fell over, so we went into Day 1 of the Finals\u00a0thinking that falls would be rare. They weren\u2019t. Lots of robots fell over, and a bunch of robots fell over multiple times. As much as nobody wanted to see a robot fall, everybody wanted to see a robot fall, and the possibility of falls (and reality of falls) kept everyone watching on the edge of our seats.<\/p>\n
The impressive thing about these falls is that, although they look pretty bad, the robots were just fine (well, most of them). After humans got them back on their feet and gave them a reboot, the machines were ready to run again. Team IHMC\u2019s Atlas fell\u00a0twice<\/em>\u00a0during their run and it still scored\u00a07 points (of a maximum of 8). Team MIT\u2019s Atlas had a bad stumble out of the vehicle and also went on to complete most of the course. So it\u2019s a good thing that robots are falling at the DRC Finals\u2014that\u2019s how we\u2019re going to make them better.<\/p>\n Still, yeah, it\u2019s hard not to feel bad about these automatons.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how we anthropomorphize these things,\u201d\u00a0DARPA program manager\u00a0Dr. Gill Pratt\u00a0said yesterday at a media briefing.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a pile of aluminum and copper wire and software.\u00a0I don\u2019t cheer for my laptop.\u00a0But people cheer for these [robots].\u00a0And of course when it falls, we all feel terrible, \u2018Uh, it got hurt.\u2019\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n But at the end of the day, he added, \u201cIt\u2019s just a machine.\u201d<\/p>\n Article source by Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum<\/p>\n http:\/\/goo.gl\/qe2eJ7<\/p>\n http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/humanoids\/darpa-robotics-challenge-robots-falling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Picture source photo:\u00a0DARPA ihmc Robot On Thursday, the day before the competition was to officially start, DARPA allowed the teams to conduct\u00a0a dress rehearsal, putting their robots\u00a0through the course\u00a0to see how they\u2019d do. During that dry run, not many robots fell over, so we went into Day 1 of the Finals\u00a0thinking that falls would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[22,21,19,20,18],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-hello","tag-are","tag-automotive-robotics-engineering","tag-base","tag-binus-aso","tag-greaternusantara"],"featured_image":{"phone":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Cover0013.jpg","tablet":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Cover0013.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/base.binus.ac.id\/automotive-robotics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}