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there'll be a camera that goes in the arm it didn't show an arm there and then that computer is one that's designed to take user code as opposed to the code that's running in the robot why don't we bring out the robot sure let's let's actually see it in action so here's spot Minnie and Seth Davis is operating it it's not running autonomously right now although many of the control functions are running on the on-board computer Seth is a guy that you never actually see in the videos but but he's in every single past video there's been set or someone essentially doing Seth's job controlling the robot in these videos that we've seen this week are the first time that this has really been demoed autonomously that's right so as I said this is a platform the arm is an extra cost option that you can take off and that white box is a computer that really we're only using today because it's got a better radio than the standard radio and in this environment where you all have cell phones and Wi-Fi it's sometimes a challenge to get that working so this is using a spread spectrum radio that makes it easier the robots on the directional when it came out it was using a different number of different walking gates it's on the directional so Seth can just using a joystick steer it around and he'll will will have the robot out in the lobby after the talk and if some of you will get a chance to drive and let me just show a few things on there there's cameras here there's two sets of stereo cameras and there's also one on the left you wanna turn what turn it in place so there's also one back here there's a butt cam there's another one on this side is that is that a trademark named the buck and we should we should mark the head on that the joints this is all electric so even though Atlas has hydraulics it's got a quick disconnect battery underneath which you can't see here and again the arm which has similar technology to the to the legs one of the things we love to do is show that you can stabilize the hand while the body moves and this looks like a kind of a show-off trick but really this is important if you're gonna do manipulation in the world you want to think about how the hand moves and not worry about the body and I can do that I can touch Brian over here on his shoulder and I can move my body all around and still my forces between me and Brian er are pretty modest and so we're building up that to do mobile manipulation and and other tricks so we're not doing autonomous control but you'll see that the sensors can be used to go over simple obstacles so the robot is looking ahead and seeing these and using quadratic programming in order to plan its foot steps so that it goes over smoothly you can see it it arches the body up a little bit in advance there it missed the the thing a little bit you want to go over sideways this is riskier but for you so that because we have camera or you can go backwards if you want if because we have cameras on the side it can see the box and step over you notice that the back leg stepped up and the front legs didn't in that case thank you sir thank you spot you