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    Maybe These Aren’t the Droids We are Looking For

    Why do humans make robots in their own image? At the 2015 Darpa Robotic Challenge, most of the robots competing to open doors, walk over rubble, and drive a vehicle walked like humans. And they fell over a lot. WIRED writer Matt Simon looks at why two-legged robots seem like a good idea.

    Released on 06/11/2015

    Transcript

    (inspirational music)

    So, this week on the internet,

    you may have seen some scary-looking humanoid robots,

    that looked like they were messed-up on horse tranquilizers.

    Because if you're trying to be human,

    you may as well start out abusing horse tranquilizers.

    They were actually part of a competition over the weekend,

    put on by DARPA, the crazy research wing of The Pentagon.

    Two dozen teams from around the World

    put their robots through eight challenges,

    including opening a door,

    walking through rubble,

    and, no joke, driving an ATV.

    The whole idea here was to get roboticists thinking

    about how to better design robots for rescue situations.

    Theoretically, if a robot moves like a human,

    it can better navigate things like

    contaminated nuclear reactors,

    which are obviously designed with human beings in mind.

    There are already perfectly good robots that do this,

    only, they run on tracks, kind of like tiny tanks.

    But this means they can't do things

    like climb a ladder, or drive an ATV.

    Problem is, getting a robot to walk like a human

    is really, really hard, as you might have noticed.

    And these things are incredibly bulky, which is no good

    if you want to use them to explore something

    like a collapsed mine, or a parking garage,

    where a robot needs to fit into tight spaces.

    This brings us to an interesting question.

    Why should the human body be the inspiration here at all?

    What if there's a design, that doesn't

    look anything like a human being,

    but is able to navigate human structures just as well?

    It's a question that has sharply

    divided the robotics community.

    Tracked vehicles have their advantages,

    and one day humanoids will have theirs as well.

    But what if there's a design that combines both?

    Or better yet, we can stop our bickering

    and realize that maybe, all of them can work in concert.

    Rescuers already use tracked robots in collapsed mines.

    And once the technology gets to the point

    where they aren't 400 pounds and falling on their faces,

    humanoids may work for operations

    that require a human touch.

    Or, we can just keep them as they are, for comic relief.

    (inspirational music)

    Starring: Matt Simon

    Director: Patrick Farrell

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