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Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Gets a Brain Upgrade

Boston Dynamics skipped sending Atlas to the inaugural Robot Olympics in China—and for good reason. Engineers have been busy giving the humanoid robot a Large Behavior Model (LBM), letting it learn ...
In the company's latest video, a humanoid robot can be seen walking and crouching while it performs various tasks.
Robotics company Boston Dynamics has released a new video of its humanoid robot Atlas – now performing tasks with zero human intervention.
Five of Boston Dynamics’ yellow, four-legged Spot robots turned the America’s Got Talent stage into a live, robotic engineering demo on the June 10 broadcast, dancing in perfect time to Queen ...
Boston Dynamics' engineers push Spot to new limits, testing daring backflips to make the robot dog tougher and smarter.
In a new video caught by TechCrunch, Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot Atlas can be seen working autonomously in a demo space, sorting engine parts between numbered bins. The company claims that ...
The new demo highlights another core change for Atlas. Whereas, in the past, Boston Dynamics meticulously programmed the robot's most impressive maneuvers, the latest video, by contrast, shows a fully ...
Robotics company Boston Dynamics has shared a new video of its latest-generation humanoid robot, Atlas, doing forward rolls and breakdancing.
Even with our reassurances about safety, people readily imagined hazards: humanoids could trip, stumble, or tip over; they ...
Yes, Boston Dynamics' all-electric new Atlas robot is already capable of doing some useful pick up/put-down style jobs entirely autonomously – and the remarkable swivel-jointed robot is ...
Boston Dynamics has unveiled the latest version of its humanoid robot, Atlas, that the company says is "designed for real-world applications." ...