I understand that Animals should remain Animal-Shaped.
Less Humanoid: Ok. I get it.
But I don't mind if pkm #Starters evolve #Bipedal.
It's actually quite #Natural.
I'd like it if #Pombon evolved into the #UrsineDog that is my profile pic.
Fire/Fairy(?)
And here on #Ardipithecus ankles -- the truly transitional early #hominin, still ape-like and climbing with grasping foot but also #bipedal
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-analysis-million-year-ankle-exposes.html
A small sfx test I made, and I am proud of it so please enjoy!
#furry #furryfandom #furryart #scalie #dragon #anthro #Bipedal #oc #magic #fantasy #portrait #sfw #digitalart #furryfyp #mastoart #portrait #starlightroseart
#HaveYouEver #wondered what #humans were like before they were #BiPedal? #WizardsAnonymous #Paleontology ?
#youtube Gibbon Carrying Baby in Style, Hilarious Walk! #FunnyWalk #bipedal https://t.co/8MRJXyiy61
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#youtube Gorilla Shufai's Cabbage Collection #gorillalife #bipedal https://t.co/VgNdc4cCAo
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Kicking bipedal robots is now called “perturbations” in the academic language of aggressive human robot interactions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pR1HE-wMHw
The cameraman falling down also made the cut. I guess it’s only fair to also show human missteps along robot missteps.
A humanoid robot named Unitree G1 is apparently being mass produced. And the manufacturer thought it was appropriate to add this warning in its video presentation:
*We kindly request that all users refrain from making any dangerous modifications or using the robot in a hazardous manner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuNFr7V7KFQ
It’s probably the closest thing to a universal robotic device to interact with our anthropocentric world and you expect us not to do dangerous things with it?
I bet that’s probably the first thing we’ll do with it.
When did #human #ancestors start #walking on two legs?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2438905-when-did-human-ancestors-start-walking-on-two-legs/
#Anthropologists have been arguing for 20 years about whether #Sahelanthropus, a #hominin that lived about 7 million years ago, was one of the first #bipedal #apes
Ulas family that walks on all fours 'shouldn't exist', say scientists | indy100
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/ulas-family-walk-on-all-fours-2668141397
#Humans
#Quadrupedal
#Bipedal
#Bipedalism
#Quadrupedalism
#Ulas
#BrainDamage
#CerebellarVermis
#OSU #Bipedal #Robot First to Run 5K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_YGPbWJO5g
In the future we can send our #bots to jog for us in the parks xD
Adult Desert Soul Ref
#Digital #DigitalArt #Krita #Furry #Bipedal #Digitigrade #ARPG #Wyngro
Week 2 - Pumpkin Calving
#digital #digitalart #krita #bipedal #furry #feral #arpg #nyulop #babynyulop #suiryn #pet #pumpkin #pumpkincalving #halloween
All right @Curator This one is for you! Your robot challenge was the perfect excuse to draw a cool robot 😄 I challenged myself to do the entire design digitally, which I normally despise, because I feel I'm more creative when working on paper. I am pretty satisfied, this was fun!
LEONARDO: The Hopping, Flying Bipedal Robot
We appear to have a new entry atop the "Robots That Creep Us Out" leader board: meet LEONARDO, the combination quadcopter/bipedal robot.
LEONARDO, a somewhat tortured name derived from "LEgs ONboARD drOne," is actually just what it appears to be: a quadcopter with a set of legs. It comes to us from Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies, and the video below makes it easy to see what kind of advantages a kinematic mash-up like this would offer. LEO combines walking and flying to achieve a kind of locomotion that looks completely alien, kind of a bouncy, tip-toeing step that really looks like someone just learning how to walk in high heels. The upper drone aspect of LEO provides a lot of the stabilization needed for walking; the thrust from the rotors is where that bouncy compliance comes from. But the rotors can also instantly ramp up the thrust so LEO can fly over obstacles, like stairs. It's also pretty good at slacklining and skateboarding, too.
It's easy to see how LEO's multimodal locomotion system solves -- or more accurately, avoids -- a number of the problems real-world bipedal robots are going to experience. For now, LEO is pretty small -- only about 30″ (76 cm) tall. And it's rather lightly constructed, as one would expect for something that needs to fly occasionally. But it's easy to see how something like this could be scaled up, at least to a point. And LEO's stabilization system might be just what its drunk-walking cousin needs.
Thanks to [qes] for the tip.
[via Tech Xplore]
#dronehacks #robotshacks #bipedal #drone #hopping #kinematics #locomotion #obstacleavoidance
Ostrich Robot Machine-Learns Itself To 5K
Ever since humanity has grasped the idea of a robot, we've wanted to imagine them into walking humanoid form. But making a robot walk like a human is not an easy task, and even the best of them end up with the somewhat shuffling gait of a Honda Asimo rather than the graceful poise of a balerina. Only in recent years have walking robots appeared to come of age, and then not by mimicking the human gait but something more akin to a bird.
We've seen it in the Boston Dynamics models, and also now in a self-balancing two-legged robot developed at Oregon State University that has demonstrated its abilities by completing an unaided 5 km run having used its machine learning skills to teach itself to run from scratch. It's believed to be the first time a robot has achieved such a feat without first being programmed for the specific task.
The university's PR piece envisages a time in which walking robots of this type have become commonplace, and when humans interact with them on a daily basis. We can certainly see that they could perform a huge number of autonomous outdoor tasks that perhaps a wheeled robot might find to be difficult, so maybe they have a bright future. Decide for yourself, after watching the video below the break.
That collective "Phew!" you heard this week was probably everyone on the Mars Ingenuity helicopter team letting out a sigh of relief while watching telemetry from the sixth and somewhat shaky flight of the UAV above Jezero crater. With Ingenuity now in an "operations demonstration" phase, the sixth flight was to stretch the limits of what the craft can do and learn how it can be used to scout out potential sites to explore for its robot buddy on the surface, Perseverance.
While the aircraft was performing its 150 m move to the southwest, the stream from the downward-looking navigation camera dropped a single frame. By itself, that wouldn't have been so bad, but the glitch caused subsequent frames to come in with the wrong timestamps. This apparently confused the hell out of the flight controller, which commanded some pretty dramatic moves in the roll and pitch axes -- up to 20° off normal. Thankfully, the flight controller was designed to handle just such an anomaly, and the aircraft was able to land safely within five meters of its planned touchdown. As pilots say, any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, so we'll chalk this one up as a win for the Ingenuity team, who we're sure are busily writing code to prevent this from happening again.
If wobbling UAVs on another planet aren't enough cringe for you, how about a blind mechanical demi-ostrich drunk-walking up and down a flight of stairs? The work comes from the Oregon State University and Agility Robotics, and the robot in question is called Cassie, an autonomous bipedal bot with a curious, bird-like gait. Without cameras or lidar for this test, the robot relied on proprioception, which detects the angle of joints and the feedback from motors when the robot touches a solid surface. And for ten tries up and down the stairs, Cassie did pretty well -- she only failed twice, with only one counting as a face-plant, if indeed she had a face. We noticed that the robot often did that little move where you misjudge the step and land with the instep of your foot hanging over the tread; that one always has us grabbing for the handrail, but Cassie was able to power through it every time. The paper describing how Cassie was trained is pretty interesting -- too bad ED-209's designers couldn't have read it.
So this is what it has come to: NVIDIA is now purposely crippling its flagship GPU cards to make them less attractive to cryptocurrency miners. The LHR, or "Lite Hash Rate" cards include new-manufactured GeForce RTX 3080, 3070, and 3060 Ti cards, which will now have reduced Ethereum hash rates baked into the chip from the factory. When we first heard about this a few months ago, we puzzled a bit -- why would a GPU card manufacturer care how its cards are used, especially if they're selling a ton of them. But it makes sense that NVIDIA would like to protect their brand with their core demographic -- gamers -- and having miners snarf up all the cards and leaving none for gamers is probably a bad practice. So while it makes sense, we'll have to wait and see how the semi-lobotomized cards are received by the market, and how the changes impact other non-standard uses for them, like weather modeling and genetic analysis.
Speaking of crypto, we found it interesting that police in the UK accidentally found a Bitcoin mine this week while searching for an illegal cannabis growing operation. It turns out that something that uses a lot of electricity, gives off a lot of heat, and has people going in and out of a small storage unit at all hours of the day and night usually is a cannabis farm, but in this case it turned out to be about 100 Antminer S9s set up on janky looking shelves. The whole rig was confiscated and hauled away; while Bitcoin mining is not illegal in the UK, stealing the electricity to run the mine is, which the miners allegedly did.
And finally, we have no idea what useful purpose this information serves, but we do know that it's vitally important to relate to our dear readers that yellow LEDs change color when immersed in liquid nitrogen. There's obviously some deep principle of quantum mechanics at play here, and we're sure someone will adequately explain it in the comments. But for now, it's just a super interesting phenomenon that has us keen to buy some liquid nitrogen to try out. Or maybe dry ice -- that's a lot easier to source.
Yellow LEDs turn green when immersed in liquid nitrogen! <https://t.co/gTguQd90Ws>
-- Tube Time (@TubeTimeUS) May 28, 2021
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