A Crummy Commercial

Boston Dynamics revealed the new electric Atlas robot: https://spectrum.ieee.org/atlas-humanoid-robot Some of that twisting and rotation is kinda creepy - but it doesn't have the football player look like the now retired hydraulic Atlas: source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9EM5_VFlt8 although the sight of hydraulic fluid spewing out like blood in a samurai movie swordfight is also creepy.   But since this electric Atlas is something that will be sold, maybe there still is a chance ? Here are some previous posts on this idea: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/06/dust.html https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2023/01/robot-nfl.html https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2023/01/maybe-robot-football-idea-isnt-quite.html Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm 

 You know how it is, you are completely clean.  You take a rocket ride millions of miles to the next planet, Mars.  Landing is OK. landing was A-OK   Your mission is going pretty well until:  Dust storms !  It happened to NASA's lander, Insight: that rusty brown color of Mars But didn't Hanna-Barbera solve this problem almost 60 years ago ? 10-7-1962 Jetson's Night Out (yes, I was 7 years old when I saw this) Just a little whisk broom on an arm, how hard could that be to add to the next lander ? Seriously, maybe after landing people on the moon again and Mars we can finally solve the problem of cleaning here on earth.  Because if it isn't solved there's gonna be trouble up there.  Some speculate that any time outside will be dealt with with an extension of the Japanese custom of removing your shoes, just remove your entire suit and leave the dust in the airlock. Incidentally, as far as football, why don't we have robot pro football ? The Ringers i...