How do you make a reliable backflip? | Boston Dynamics

to prepare for a live performance. It really just means we have to do a lot of robustness testing. So, as soon as something works in sim, we'll deploy it on the hardware. It never works first time on the hardware. It's going to fail somehow. Anytime something fails, we generate a log of everything that the robot observed during the failure. Try to find why the robot failed. We fix that issue. Then we repeat the cycle. Run it on hardware. Find the next failure. Debug it. Fix it. And the more you do that, the more reliable your behaviors will be. I was shocked when I was asked to create behaviors for America's Got Talent. All of my work at this company has been for industrial inspection. So, it was always about like walking the robot around the factory, taking the right picture at the right time, reliably, making it back to the dock. I've never been given a project where it's like, throw this robot around and make it work. So, that was exciting and fun. I'm excited to see what Spot does next. Oh god. Stop.