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APRIL 17, 2024

Boston Dynamics has just introduced a new Atlas humanoid robot , replacing the legendary hydraulic Atlas and intended to be a commercial product. Playter became the CEO in 2019, helping the company make the difficult transition from R&D to commercial products with Spot , Stretch , and now (or very soon) Atlas.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

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! The idea behind Atlas' behavior libraries is that they can be reused in new environments.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Overseas, the Group plans to have EV charging infrastructure optimized for market-specific environments with various partners, including IONITY, Europe’s leading high-power charging network in which the Group made a strategic investment. Moreover, the Group will accelerate the creation of a hydrogen energy ecosystem. —Chairman Chung.

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AUGUST 18, 2014

Lux participated in two separate sessions at the conference: the first around regional planning implications, and the second on personal vehicle automation commercialization. Multiple times, we heard the phrase “But Google says.” The rush to proclaim driverless cars as the near future for personal transport is, simply, wrong.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Chatbot Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance Evan Ackerman: I’m Evan Ackerman, and welcome to ChatBot, a robotics podcast from IEEE Spectrum. Monica has worked with Boston Dynamics to choreograph some of their robot videos in which Atlas , Spot , and even Handle dance to songs like Do You Love Me? Monica Thomas: Yeah.

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MARCH 13, 2019

With the addition of the Xcelsior CHARGE H2, New Flyer offers the most diverse lineup of commercially available zero-emission transit buses in North America, and remains the only North American manufacturer to provide all three types of ZEB propulsion systems: trolley-electric, all battery-electric, and fuel-cell-electric.

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JULY 31, 2023

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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JULY 7, 2020

University of Colorado Boulder researchers, with colleagues at Boston University, have developed a new optical phased array concept—the serpentine OPA (SOPA)—that could support medium- to long-range lidar. Current commercial lidar systems use large, rotating mirrors to steer the laser beam and thereby create a 3-D image.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

Last week, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced an initial investment of over $400 million to launch the new Boston Dynamics AI Institute. If we can start by looking back a little bit—what kind of company did you want Boston Dynamics to be when you founded it in 1992? It took a while before we got back to robotics.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Boston Dynamics has just posted a couple of new videos showing their Atlas humanoid robot doing some of the most impressive parkour we've yet seen. Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team at Boston Dynamics to experiment with new behaviors. Let's watch! This is a pretty big deal.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

The remaining cities included Denver, Boston, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Phoenix. Since EVs are a unique solution for congested urban environments, we are taking a city-by-city approach rather than a national or state-by-state approach. Rounding out the top ten were Newark, Seattle and Atlanta. —Richard Canny. Sacramento.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv will be forming an autonomous driving joint venture to advance the design, development and commercialization of SAE Level 4 and 5 autonomous technologies. The new joint venture marks the start of a journey with Aptiv toward our common goal of commercializing autonomous driving.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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. Boston Dynamics ] Software by IHMC Robotics. Paper ] via [ BruBotics ] Thanks, Bram!

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

While Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid spends its time learning how to dance and do parkour , the company's Spot quadruped is quietly getting much better at doing useful, valuable tasks in commercial environments. Can you talk a bit more about trying to do state-of-the-art work on a robot that's being deployed commercially?

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JANUARY 23, 2023

With Boston Dynamics’ recent(ish) emphasis on making robots that can do things that are commercially useful , it’s always good to be gently reminded that the company is still at the cutting edge of dynamic humanoid robotics. Or in this case, forcefully reminded.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., GTI will demonstrate how the pellets/briquettes are rugged enough to withstand transportation and piling and show how the pellets/briquettes can be processed into a crushed or pulverized product suitable for use in a commercial coal gasifier.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

For the purposes of this test, we force Digit to fall in a controlled environment to demonstrate our new self-righting and recovering ability. Boston Dynamics ] The moral of this video is to always give your robots a gentle pat on the sensors when they do a good job at a challenging task.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Boston Dynamics put together a behind-the-scenes video of sorts about the Super Bowl commercial they did in collaboration with some beer company or other. Boston Dynamics ] Power-line perching could be an easy way for urban drones to keep their batteries topped up, but landing on power lines can be tricky.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In December of 2021 at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted numerous tasks and mobility operations, successfully completing all planned tests. This is cool looking, but I'd need to know more about how this system can deal with an actual lunar environment, right?

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JANUARY 14, 2016

Engineering firm Ricardo has published a white paper— Key Enablers for the Fully Autonomous Vehicle —highlighting the technologies and development processes that are needed to develop commercially feasible self-driving cars that meet consumer expectations while also achieving compliance with likely future transport regulations.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics' Robots Dance A new podcast from IEEE Spectrum, where award-winning robotics reporter and editor Evan Ackerman pairs up leading experts to pose the kind of questions no-one can ask.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 27 projects for more than $37 million in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies, which seek to generate renewable electricity from oceans and free-flowing rivers and streams. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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MAY 5, 2023

Indoor Capture is the newest Skydio 3D Scan mode that is specifically tailored for autonomously scanning large, complex, indoor environments. NCCR ] Lex Fridman interviews Boston Dynamics CEO Rob Player. [ We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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MAY 8, 2023

Charging at home is still the priority, according to survey results from Boston Consulting Group. With that in mind, here are six important places to install commercial EV charging stations in 2023. Commercial Real Estate Commercial real estate developers can also benefit from installing EV chargers.

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JULY 1, 2022

Since then, researchers at SRI have continued to optimize the system to work with today’s commercial robot arms, bringing high dexterity telemanipulation to a wide range of industries. [ SRI ] Meet Josh, a mechanical engineer at Boston Dynamics.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Agility Robotics, along with Boston Dynamics , has been a leader within the industrial robotics space, especially since the launch of its most advanced bipedal robot three years ago, Digit. The FIRST commercialized humanoid robot!! Much like Tesla Optimus , Digit uses a combination of numerous sensors to navigate its environment.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Cities including Boston and New York are already spending substantial sums on projects to hold back the sea, which has begun encroaching in subways and road tunnels over the last 10 years. But that is just a small precursor of what will come. This article appears in the March 2022 print issue as “Building Boom.”.

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JUNE 21, 2023

In addition, to protect the environment and secure sustainable raw materials in the mid- to long-term, Hyundai Motor is safely recovering batteries through collaboration with the Group’s companies. Secure recycling technology to reutilize recycled materials for battery manufacturing will enable the sustainable lifecycle of batteries.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It's less of a dig and more of an acknowledgement that getting mobile manipulators to usefully operate in semi-structured environments has been, and continues to be, a huge challenge. It might be effective when constrained to a research environment, but fundamentally, "platform" typically means "getting it to do (commercially?)

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MARCH 2, 2023

Today, a robotics startup called Figure is unveiling “the world’s first commercially viable general purpose humanoid robot,” called Figure 01. And if anyone is going to take a useful humanoid robot from an engineering concept to commercial reality, these are the folks to do it. It’ll be a new design, with really solid engineering.”

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JUNE 24, 2013

The goal of this new center is to create a collaborative environment and concentration of technical capability to accelerate materials discovery and development, provide opportunities to transition new breakthroughs in advanced materials to industry, and offer training opportunities for young scientists and engineers.

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APRIL 24, 2022

DARPA designed the competition to advance practical robotics in extreme conditions, based around three distinct underground environments: human-made tunnels, the urban underground, and natural caves. A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment. IEEE Spectrum. Can you talk about that?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A one year update of our ongoing project with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and RMUS Canada to investigate the capabilities of Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot for autonomous inspection and first response in the power sector. Contoro ] Thanks, Youngmok! UCSD ] Thanks, Liezel! no matter the weather.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. By the late 1960s, Xerox executives had begun to see information technology make an impact in the office environment. Traditional Yale faculty snobbery.”

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APRIL 16, 2023

Under some fairly specific constraints, autonomous robots are starting to find a few valuable niches in semistructured environments, like offices and hospitals and warehouses. Many teams, including i-Botics [left], relied on commercial virtual-reality headsets as part of their interfaces.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Moriah Hargrove Anders Francis’s primary technology focus is extreme environment and high-temperature integrated circuits. Well versed in shifting technology from idea to commercial application, Francis has secured and led projects with the U.S. Matt Francis, Tom Murad, and Christopher Root. IEEE Senior Member A.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

HRI 2023 : 13–16 March 2023, STOCKHOLM Robotics Summit & Expo : 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Enjoy today’s videos!

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