Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot, Atlas, is ready for real work, showing its practical utility in tasks such as picking up objects and placing them in desired locations within unfamiliar environments, as reported by @arxiv. Atlas combines strength, perception, and mobility, and is now capable of estimating the pose of objects and its own hands using a digital twin overlay. In a related development, researchers have enabled a wheeled robot to autonomously learn how to open almost any door on its own while navigating a college campus.
Researchers set a wheeled robot loose on a college campus, where it learned how to open all kinds of drawers and doors in the real world. Learn more 👉 https://t.co/4w1JpW8LOr https://t.co/6cziCp88VS
Researchers set a wheeled robot loose on a college campus, where it learned how to open all kinds of drawers and doors in the real world https://t.co/HoTuV3VHIS
This robot can figure out how to open almost any door on its own https://t.co/8fwswjaCHp
Atlas @BostonDynamics is finally doing tasks that are actually useful!! I'm much more excited by this than parkour and backflips in the past. From the first person view, it looks like Atlas is estimating the pose of the object and its own hands (with a digital twin overlay),… https://t.co/tZUiEtwqks
Can't trip Atlas up! Our humanoid robot gets ready for real work combining strength, perception, and mobility. https://t.co/f7mcnvbw3L
A #robot that can pick up objects and drop them in a desired location in an unfamiliar house @arxiv https://t.co/ST8nbrOImD