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Q&A: Boston Dynamics on Atlas’s Parkour Skills

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Yesterday's video from Boston Dynamics showing a pair of Atlas robots doing parkour together is already up to nearly 3 million views, and for good reason. And happily, Boston Dynamics had answers! Kuindersma and Stephens: When building robots like Atlas, there's always a long list of engineering tradeoffs that shape the final design.

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Notable that Boston Dynamics is now saying that Atlas “gets ready for real work.” Boston Dynamics ] You deserve to be free from endless chores! Ascento ] Can’t trip Atlas up!

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Video Friday: Your Robot Dog

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We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): Robot choreography by Boston Dynamics and Monica Thomas. Boston Dynamics ] DeKonBot 2: for when you want things really, really, really, slowly clean.

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Hyundai Motor to invest $85B over next 10 years to accelerate transition to smart mobility provider

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At an Investor Day event in Seoul, Hyundai Motor said that it will accelerate its transition toward becoming a smart mobility solution provider by securing a large-scale investment of KRW 109.4 In the existing system, auto parts can only be shared among vehicles that share the same platform. trillion (US$27.8 Production.

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Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted Brain Modelling Pioneer Says

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And while the tool is slowly learning a new database, an arbitrary part of its learned memories can suddenly collapse. Our brains learn to recognize and predict objects and events in a changing world that is filled with unexpected events,” he says.

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Video Friday: Your Robot Dog

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We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): Robot choreography by Boston Dynamics and Monica Thomas. Boston Dynamics ] DeKonBot 2: for when you want things really, really, really, slowly clean.

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Video Friday: PoKeBo Cubes

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Like, they'll talk to each other about current events and the weather, which you'll pick up just by being nearby and low-key listening in. [ SRI ] Meet Josh, a mechanical engineer at Boston Dynamics.