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Videos on Artificial Intelligence

Boston Dynamics

Robots from Boston Dynamics, featuring Spot mini, BigDog, Handle, WildCat, Sand Flea, Atlas the Dynamic Humanoid, and others (13 Feb 2017) [video (7m 8s)]

The Most Advanced Robots

The "seven most advanced robots" (13 Feb 2017) [video (20m 18s)]:
(7) Agility Robotics (via Oregon State University): Cassie
(6) NASA: Valkyrie
(5) 13 foot tall humanoid (this seems a little stupid...)
(4) Honda: Asimo
(3) Boston Dynamics: Atlas
(2) Boston Dynamics: Spot Mini
(1) Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Techology (AIST): HRP-4 Robot

The "five most advanced robots" (13 Feb 2017) [video (4m 7s)]:
(5) University of Pisa: Face
(4) Kokoro Company: Actroids
(3) University of Washington: Morpheus
(2) Boston Dynamics: Atlas
(1) Honda: Asimo

60 Minutes: Artificial Intelligence

Charlie Rose reports on robotics research at Carnegie-Mellon (9 Oct 2016) [webpage] [video (26m 50s)]

Atlas, the next generation

Atlas is a humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics (2016) [YouTube (2m 41s)]

Pepper, the social robot

Amber MacArthur and Sarah Lane talk about Pepper, the social robot developed by Aldebaran and marketed by Soft Bank Robotics, that can understand feelings. Twit.tv (2015) [YouTube (3m 13s)]

RoboCup 2015 (Iran competitions)

Interesting overview of the 2015 robotics competition in Iran, including soccer (using many kinds of robots, including NAO Robots), but also the development of rescue robots (Iran Program PressTV) (29 April 2015) [YouTube (10m 28s)]

What Will the Future Be Like? (2012)

David Pogue (host), “A Challenge for Humanoid Robots” NOVA ScienceNow (PBS) (14 Nov 2012) [web (16m 57s)]

CNBC news clip on a humanoid robot (from Boston Dynamics) (2015)

Be afraid, be very afraid. Google's 6-foot robot named Atlas was filmed running free for the very first time in the middle of the woods.

Posted by CNBC on Tuesday, August 18, 2015

The Most Awesome Robots (5 Jun 2014)

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Extreme Machines: Incredible Robots (26 Nov 2014)

RoboCup German Open 2015 Finals (Bremen v Leipzig)

German commentary. Both hilarious and exciting in a geeky sort of way (Team B-Human from Bremen in black, team HTWK from Leipzig in blue) — the players are all NAO Robots.

NASA’s humanoid robots PBS LearningMedia

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Robot Videos from Wired

Robots & Us: The Future of Work in the Age of AI Wired (5m 30s) [see]

What is a robot? Wired (3m 53s) [see]

How Brett the Robot is Learning by Failing Wired (3m 44s) [see]

Prepared by Steve Naragon [email].    Last update: 30 Jul 2017

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