In a video released by the IHMC this week, ATLAS demonstrates a variety of “whole-body coordinated motions.” Specifically, a bunch of household cleaning tasks, like vacuuming the square of carpet, sweeping up the Nerf darts, and putting trash into a trashcan and then putting that trashcan on a table. The video shows them at 20 times their normal speed, which highlights just how awkward and inefficient the movements are. With every task It looks like a human in a giant clumsy suit struggling to complete basic tasks. The Jetson‘s robotic maid Rosie this certainly isn’t. ATLAS isn’t built to be a robot housekeeper, which is a job the disk-shaped Roomba robot family does much better anyway. But performing the tasks is still a way to test to see if ATLAS’s code is working. IEEE Spectrum reports: So not the future of chores, but a pretty cool demonstration anyway. Watch the full video below:
