- Humanoid recreates an iconic scene from a holiday movie
- HMND 01 tries his hand at gift wrapping with his robotic hands
- It is a humorous demonstration of the capabilities and limitations of current robotic technology.
Sometimes robot videos are unintentionally funny. Other times they try to be humorous and only get grimaces. Every once in a while, though, you actually get a little gem of a comedic robot.
The humanoid HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal, a robot that the company says was built in just five months and learned to walk in just 48 hours, is back with a new holiday-themed task.
While most robot videos boast almost unbelievable feats of intelligence and agility, the Humanoid teams apparently had something else in mind for this. Love, in fact-clip inspired.
In it, the imposing 5-foot-10, nearly 200-pound bipedal robot is a store employee patiently waiting for its next customer. A young woman comes in and asks for a toy robot. HMND 01 is equipped with enough sensors (including RGB vision and haptics) to hear the woman’s words and uses an NVIDIA backend for autonomy and reasoning. It is therefore not surprising that he can react and, with his dexterous hands, catch the little robot.
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Things take a familiar turn in the video, however, when the robot asks the woman if she would like it “wrapped in a gift.” When the woman asks for “something simple,” the robot, whose label describes it as a “gift-wrapping apprentice: one month old,” suggests an oversized acrylic box. The woman fears it’s too much, then HMND 01 blurts out a somewhat familiar phrase: “It’s much more than a box.”
Exactly, the robot plays Rowan Atkinson’s store clerk in the iconic holiday film.
However, the tension regarding the possible discovery of a womanizing husband because Atkinson takes so long to wrap the gift is replaced by the robot’s somewhat clumsy efforts to fill the box with decorations and, among other things, nuts (as in nuts and bolts).
When the woman’s husband arrives and asks if she is finished yet, HMND 01 explains, “Just a moment, sir.” I’ve only had hands for a week. »
It’s a cute and sweet homage to a classic scene, but also a reminder that these humanoid robots still need time to develop, and while we watch them plod along, trying to replicate our abilities, maybe we should give them a little time and maybe some advice on what to put in a gift box.
In a final twist, the robot realizes it’s made a mess, gently slides the big box aside and replaces it with a pre-packaged robot.
What’s next for HMND? Well, Humnanoid uses Nvidia’s Isaac Lab, an open source robot training platform, to accelerate and compress its learning. I’ve seen videos of him walking, moving from side to side, picking up delicate items, and being pushed without falling. He does all these things, but the movements are all rather slow and deliberate.
For now, the company is not positioning its fast-moving humnoid for consumers. Instead, she has industrial ambitions – and perhaps a dream of working at Harrods.
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