Atlas, can you bring me a drink? | Boston Dynamics – YouTube
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Watch On <\/a> Where you might be able to rotate your torso, at most, 90 degrees, Atlas can spin its upper body a full 360-degrees, a skill that turns out to be quite useful for delivering a frosty cold drink. The new robot, according to a Boston Dynamics release delivered in January, has 56 degrees of freedom, can replace its own battery, and lift up to 110 pounds.<\/p>\n Latest Videos From You may like<\/p>\n Boston Dynamics actually delivered two videos on Monday (May 18), and while the one of the Atlas Product robot hefting a refrigerator and delivering it to a lab tech so they can retrieve a cold drink is fun to watch, it\u2019s the second, deep dive video on how Boston Dynamics trains Atlas, and why they chose to demonstrate its skills in this slightly comical way, that’s worth watching.<\/p>\n Atlas practices\u2026a lot<\/p>\n Unlike many other humanoid robots, Atlas\u2019s first job won\u2019t be in the home, and much of the development work has been in service of delivering a system that is low-cost, simple, reliable, and can easily slip into a manufacturing role. Perhaps that\u2019s why, while Altas resembles the human form, it\u2019s far less so than, say, Neo Bot<\/a>, Telsa Optimus<\/a>, or Figure 03<\/a> from Figure AI. You could argue, though, that its design makes Atlas faster, more agile, and perhaps far more ready to deliver a heavy package from Spot A to Spot B.<\/p>\n In the video, Atlas lifts an unplugged, 50LB mini fridge and carries it over to a table, where it gingerly places it down before stepping aside and watching the researcher retrieve a canned beverage. 50Lbs is significant, but the researchers noted that in lab tests, they had Atlas effortlessly lifting 100lbs. In both instances, the goal was somewhat human-like effort. \u201cA tool basically that is similar to humans, which means it needs to start interacting with objects. And objects come in all shapes and forms,\u201d says Boston Dynamics Atlas Research Engineer Vinay Kamidi.<\/p>\n Atlas doesn\u2019t just lift the fridge. “Put your whole body into it, was kind of the idea,” notes Boston Dynamics Atlas Controls Associate Director Benjamin Stephens.<\/p>\n How does Atlas learn? | Inside the Lab | Boston Dynamics – YouTube Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n Getting Atlas to perform this skill without mishaps is the product of lengthy, visualized training. The researchers start with an animation of the task and then, within the computer, run \u201cmillions of hours\u201d of simulations where the robot practices lifting, carrying, and placing the refrigerator.<\/p>\n By the time they ran the program on the real Atlas hardware, it performed the task perfectly.<\/p>\n It\u2019s funny to think that a robot that can perform a back flip, relatively few humans can do, takes millions of simulated attempts to learn a task that a human could master in moments. AI is speeding up the simulation process, however, and Boston Dynamics researchers are not only excited about its current beverage-delivery capabilities but also about what the future holds.<\/p>\n “We have not seen the limits of what Atlas can do,\u201d says Atlas Software Engineer Shane Rozen-Levy, in the video, and the future is \u201conly limited by our imagination.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n <\/a><\/p>\n Follow TechRadar on Google News<\/a> and add us as a preferred source<\/a> to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Dynamics Atlas can deliver a drinkIt also delivers the refrigerator because it can lift up to 110…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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