In his post, Brooks recounts being “way too close” to an Agility Robotics Digit humanoid when it fell several years ago. He has not dared approach one while walking since. Even in promotional videos from humanoid companies, Brooks notes, humans are never shown close to moving humanoid robots unless separated by furniture, and even then,...
Most importantly, though, it scaled really well. Economy of scale The problem with applying traditional computational methods to complex problems like managing robots at a factory is that the challenge of computation grows exponentially with the number of items you have in your system. Computing the most optimal trajectories for one robot is relatively simple....