波士顿动力工程副总裁Aaron Saunders: 我们是如何教机器人学会跳舞的

{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"不久前，波士顿动力发布了"},{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw","title":"","type":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"一段视频"}]},{"type":"text","text":"，Atlas、Spot 和 Handle 在视频中跳着“Do You Love Me”。据视频描述，这是“庆祝我们希望这是一个更加快乐的一年的开始”。到截稿为止，这段视频已经被收看了将近 2400 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Thomas"}]},{"type":"text","text":"的合作制作的（你可以在"},{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/www.madkingthomas.com\/","title":"","type":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"这里"}]},{"type":"text","text":"看到她的其他作品）。我们知道"},{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/robots.ieee.org\/robots\/atlas2016\/?utm_source=spectrum","title":"","type":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Atlas"}]},{"type":"text","text":"能做一些实际的任务，我们也知道它能做体操、跑酷，但跳舞肯定是新鲜的东西。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"为进一步了解这些舞蹈机器人（舞蹈机器人比看上去要复杂得多），我们采访了波士顿动力的工程副总裁"},{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aaron-saunders-28704055\/","title":"","type":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Aaron 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年开始在波士顿动力工作，这意味着他参与了波士顿动力大量机器人的研究和开发，甚至包括那些你可能已经忘记的机器人。举例来说，还记得"},{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UIipbi0cAVE","title":"","type":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"LittleDog"}]},{"type":"text","text":"吗？这个可爱的小四足是由一个两人小组设计和制作的，Saunders 就是其中之一。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"尽管从一开始他就参与了 Atlas 项目（并参与了波士顿动力的其他所有工作），Saunders 在过去几年中一直是 Atlas 团队的负责人，他非常友好地回答了我们有关他们舞蹈机器人的问题。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"blockquote","content":[{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"italic"},{"type":"strong"}],"text":"IEEE Spectrum"},{"type":"text","text":": 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的芭蕾动作，并且获得成功。因此，它不是手写的，也不是手工编码的，而是一条管道，它允许你描述一组不同的动作，通过各种不同的输入，然后推动机器人完成。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"image","attrs":{"src":"https:\/\/static001.infoq.cn\/resource\/image\/e5\/e6\/e52be80ab3e25e491d15f36c65301ee6.jpg","alt":null,"title":"","style":[{"key":"width","value":"75%"},{"key":"bordertype","value":"none"}],"href":"","fromPaste":false,"pastePass":false}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"blockquote","content":[{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"italic"}],"text":"IEEE Spectrum"},{"type":"text","text":"：在人类舞蹈中，有没有什么东西特别难以迁移到 Atlas？还是说 Atlas 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