[HN Gopher] The Tokyo Olympic Robots
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The Tokyo Olympic Robots
Author : evo_9
Score : 52 points
Date : 2021-07-31 13:52 UTC (1 days ago)
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| 123pie123 wrote:
| I would definitely watch an olympic games full of robots
| competing with each other.
|
| Each country could submit various robots with varioius
| specifications - kind of like an olympic games version of robot
| wars
| ChrisKnott wrote:
| They did this in the UK in the early 00s it was called
| Technogames
|
| https://youtu.be/nOB5FtD7nnw
| [deleted]
| hanniabu wrote:
| Yeah, something like those soccer robot games seems fun.
| justicezyx wrote:
| There were a dota2 bot match events before. Dota2 had a great
| bots moment like the go, when open ai's dota2 bots beat human
| players, and showcased different meta strategy of winning the
| game.
|
| I believe the bot ti was no longer hosted because there seems
| no strong monetizing channels. Even that a lot of people enjoy
| them.
|
| [1] https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Bot_TI/2019
| m4rtink wrote:
| This reminds me of the Ghost in the Shell anime (IIRC second
| season) where Batou, one of the characters mentions he
| represented Japan on the Paralympics in boxing in the past.
|
| The thing is that he is a full body cyborg ex JSDF soldier with
| with Ranger training that can literally bend steel bars with
| bare hands and jump between buildings. And for historical
| reasons all cyborgs in the near future cyberpunk world of GitS
| compete on the Paralympics, making them much more interesting
| than the "normal" Olympic games where only non-augmented humans
| presumably still compete with each other, with all the
| limitations of a standard human body.
| blamazon wrote:
| If you like this sort of stuff, (and are in USA) you may enjoy
| being a booster for a local college robot football team:
|
| https://collegeroboticfootball.org/build/
| zoomablemind wrote:
| Are there also [?Toyota] self-driving vans?
|
| I spotted in some photo from the Olympics the vans which look
| just like the "rugbyball bot" but a full size for passengers.
|
| Edit: Apparently these are busses e-Palette by Toyota, hydrogen
| fuel-cell powered. Level-4 self-driving capable, but there's a
| designated driver on-board. Up to 20people, range 150km, speed
| 19km/h.
|
| Here's what's inside e-Palette bus:
|
| https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/29933371.html
| pests wrote:
| You say hydrogen fuel cell powered but the link you posted says
| electric-battery.
| zoomablemind wrote:
| Indeed, it's electric battery powered, not hydrogen powered.
| I guess, I got confused reading other links which described
| promised hydrogen use during the Olympics, including the
| Olympic flame.
|
| Sorry for the confusion.
| gallego2007 wrote:
| They're cute, but I'm a bit disappointed that the Field Support
| Robot doesn't actually retrieve the ball itself, rather it
| follows the official on the field and waits for a payload.
| aaron695 wrote:
| The point where you realise Japan is a country that has been
| LARPing it had robots for 40 years.
|
| Demo of the Field Support Robot (FSR) -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDHK2rrH_2Y
|
| It is not a easy project, if you hit an athlete that's a problem.
| They mention in tests with visually impaired long jump they had
| to reduce gear noise of the FSR to not interfere with the other
| team member.
|
| But it could have been done 20+ years ago, there's still no way
| they are even close to being cost effective. And I predict they
| will be used sparingly in the field since they will be too buggy.
| This is not an iterative design, it's a show it off then put it
| in a cupboard design
| new299 wrote:
| The mascots were selected by the public:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraitowa_and_Someity#Selectio...
|
| And the mascot robots were designed around this, which isn't
| clear in the article.
|
| I feel like any article on the Olympics should mention that >80%
| of the Japanese population was against holding the Olympics at
| this time [1]. And that Tokyo is now experiencing the highest
| SARS-CoV-2 daily infection rates it's seen to date. While
| government officials claim this is unrelated to holding the
| largest sporting event in the world [2].
|
| [1] https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14351670
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| [2] https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14408562
| makeitdouble wrote:
| > by the public
|
| More precisely, preselected by a committee, who then had
| elementary schools choose the winner.
|
| There also was wide plans to have elementary school kids go
| watch the Olympics, it seemed a really big effort went into
| drilling the event into them.
| rtpg wrote:
| Something I've heard (no great sourcing) is that at the very
| least Olympic staffers/participants who are getting COVID are
| for the most part Japan-based staffers and the like, and not
| people who came from abroad.
|
| My gut feeling is that this recent spike is partly the
| "lockdown rejection" that we saw across the US last year, in
| particular stuff like trying to ban alcohol sales in
| restaurants seemed to have really made a lot of people just
| kind of give up with the state of emergency recommendations.
|
| And like... there aren't any spectators right? The amount of
| people at the event is maybe comparable to how many people are
| at a local supermarket in one day.
|
| Not to defend the gov'ts decision to do the olympics, or any of
| this thing in general. There will probably not be many real
| consequences to these people, and people are watching it on TV,
| but it definitely doesn't feel very "state of emergency" and
| sets the wrong tone for this moment. It's just that this spike
| doesn't feel single-factor.
| Danieru wrote:
| The spike is most likely delta by my guess. This is the first
| spike Japan is experiencing after delta has taken hold.
|
| Japan's low vaccination rate means nothing but masks are
| holding delta at bay.
| bamboozled wrote:
| Thanks for pointing this out, while the bread and circuses are
| free and on offer, Japan is entering a real state of emergency.
| kzrdude wrote:
| Basketball throwing robot in the 2020 olympics (for fun):
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH9m0L7F-sE This robot is
| developed by Toyota, apparently.
| beebeepka wrote:
| Hail, Hail Robonia, a land I didn't make up
|
| I am actually looking forward to robot competitions, even AI
| Quake/StarCraft battles.
|
| The closest thing we have right now is radio controlled
| battlecars banging each other. Not terribly exciting after the
| first few minutes
| wiml wrote:
| There are actual autonomous robot competitions. They don't tend
| to be as adrenaline-filled as the battlebots, they really don't
| make good TV, but they're fun. Some have quite low barriers to
| entry. If you want to dip your toe in you can put together a
| mini-sumo or maze-running entrant without a ton of
| time/materials investment.
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