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#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Art of Movement

I wonder how it is possible to achieve sort of truly elegant movement. We think that part of the reason why people are attracted to the machines we build is because the inherent dynamics of movement are closer to right. And there's something about getting those physics to be expressed in the machine that people interpret as lifelike or or elegant or just natural looking. There's a benefit that it probably ends up being more stable in the long run, you know, it could it could walk stably over a wider range of conditions.

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