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▲ causal 2 days ago

Are you saying it cannot move faster than they because of some kind of governor?

▲Symmetry 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

A governor, the firmware in the motor controllers, something like that. Certainly not the neural network though.

▲UltraSane a day ago | parent | prev [-]

That is how I would design it. It is common in safety critical PLC systems to have 1 or more separate safety PLCs that try to prevent bad things from happening.

▲idiotsecant 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Although in a SIL safety system the dangerous events are identified and extremely thoroughly characterized as part of system design.

There cannot be a safety system of this type for a generalist platform like a humanoid robot. It's possibility space is just too high.

I think the safety governor in this case would have to be a neural network that is at least as complex as the robots network, if not more so.

Which begs the question: what system checks that one for safety?

▲UltraSane 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Limiting max force applied CAN be can be characterized for this robot.