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Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics

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When Marc Raibert founded Boston Dynamics in 1992, he wasn’t even sure it was going to be a robotics company—he thought it might become a modeling and simulation company instead. Now, of course, Boston Dynamics is the authority in legged robots, with its Atlas biped and Spot quadruped. He now leads the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

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Video Friday: Acrobot Error

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Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Boston Dynamics ] This is pretty cool: BruBotics is testing their self-healing robotics gripper technology on commercial grippers from Festo. You should read our in-depth article on Stretch 3, so if you haven’t yet, consider this as just a teaser.

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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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Those talks in turn led to a collaboration and an invention: the Boston Arm, an early myoelectric prosthesis. What was the Boston Arm? Discussions between cyberneticist Norbert Wiener [left] and surgeon Melvin Glimcher [right] inspired the Boston Arm. Wiener suggested that Amar G.

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Video Friday: Such a Showoff

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IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON Robotics Summit & Expo : 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON Enjoy today’s videos! UPenn ]

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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Henry Ellis Warren was born in Boston on 21 May 1872, a decade before Edison’s Pearl Street Station went online, in New York City, ushering in the dawn of the electric age. returning to Boston in 1902 as superintendent of the Lombard Governor Co. Warren poses with one of his master station clocks. electricity lines. Electric Time Co.

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This Robotic Pack Mule Can Carry Your Gear (and You)

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Boston Dynamics’ BigDog and LS3 were explicitly designed to haul heavy loads (up to 200 kg) across rough terrain for the U.S. This kind of application may be obvious, but the hardware requirements are challenging.

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Learn From the Best Minds in Commercial Robotics Development

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This sponsored article is brought to you by Robotics Summit & Expo. The Robotics Summit & Expo , taking place May 10-11 at the Boston Convention Center, will bring together the brightest minds in robotics to share their commercial robotics development experiences.