I Challenged Boston Dynamics' Famous Atlas Robot

"I'm so sorry". Robot: That's all I needed to hear. I'll let you live.

"OH no, I told my robot to put away the groceries, and it stepped on my dog". What a world to live in when that becomes a real statement.

People always talking about how they humanize robots because they feel bad for seeing them being bullied. Meanwhile, I'm apologizing to my instruments whenever I accidentally bump em against something. Like humans will feel bad for hitting a stone under the right circumstances. And the companion cube in Portal is one of the most loved videogame characters and that's in-universe literally just a weighted cube you can put on big buttons.

Those movements just feel so natural. You can't help feeling that Atlas is thinking, 'I have a breaking point. You push me again, I'll pull your arms out their sockets.'

To be fair Cleo, when you pushed the robot it was not expecting it. You were expecting to be pushed so we can see you tense in the video ready for the push. In that sense you had a big advantage over Atlas. I wonder how you would have performed if you had been blindfolded, and not known when the push was coming? So, Atlas's response was even better than you originally thought.

Cleo trying to do a backflip and immediately regretting it is the best part 😂

Cleo: "Don't Step on my Dog" Robot: "Damn you are so picky"

13:58 The whole examples about groceries were so funny. Pure comedy

I'm surprised you didn't mention that the primary reason for the Asimo's design/size is that it makes it eye level to a human sitting down, which is the most common scenario for aged-care/health-care robots to be looking after us. The humanoid aspect was also chosen for Asimo since it makes it easier to relate to it.

Wow, what an amazing journey you just took us on. I had no idea that making robots more like us could make things so complex. It really made me appreciate how awesome our human bodies are and all the things they do every day. Makes you wonder, if we had humanoid robots in our daily lives, what tasks would we give them? Definitely something to think about. Great watch!

"Why we need robots that look like humans? Because we have build the world for humans" "I know Atlas is not a human, but we are" 11:45

Love your videos. I'm a science teacher and used this in my robotics class, great intro and overview, kids got really engaged. Keep up the awesome work.

My dog can get me a beer in the fridge, so I’m fine without robots.

Hey Cleo, I really like the ad timer.... That is a subtle and brilliant use of psychology. I usually don't have the patience for ads... But with the timer, I felt that the amount of time I had to wait was low enough that I didn't want to bother trying to skip ahead... In essence, because I knew how long I had to wait, I felt more like being patient.

after seeing the "push" autocorrection: think about this. A) Atlas is very good at calculating balance correction. If you push it, it will autocorrect. B) Now say you fall into atlas accidentally because YOU tripped. Atlas now autocorrects its balance and crushes your limb in the process because it valued its balance over a much MUCH harder calculation including your choice of balancing and autocorrection in real time. C) everything in (b) gets multiplied even further into complexity as people have entirely different levels of coordination, or accident experience. D) it chooses a neutral option, of collapse, and now a dangerous heavy piece of machinery with limbs is falling with/on you. The amount of corrections and processing power to function safely around humans is off the charts.

06:49 Never mind Moravec's Paradox, Atlas' legs are shorter and less flexible. Improve flexibility, limb length and balance becomes more difficult (especially for things like backflips) because centre of gravity is higher and with a higher centre of gravity comes higher angular momentum, slower rotary response and higher angular commitment; pretty much all the things which force taller people to go about balance-dependent actions more slowly, on average.

The part where he's telling Cleo to push Atlas harder and she's like "are you sure?" reminds me of the Milgram experiment. 😂

Amazing Cleo! I must have seen over 50 atlas videos over the years but yours gave loads of great info and context that wern’t in any of the otherones!

Kudos for a thoughtful, engaged, critically edited look at our relationship to automation. Please consider this maxim: “Be careful what you wish for.”

12:51 ihhh lucu bingit gemoy, mbaknya ngangguk-ngangguk tapi robotnya noleh-noleh... So CUTE😽