Advanced robotics company known for highly capable and expensive robot platforms like Atlas and Spot.
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“Hyundai agreed to acquire SoftBank's remaining roughly 10% stake in Boston Dynamics for about $325 million, taking full ownership of the maker of the Atlas humanoid robot.”
Source→“Boston Dynamics — Manufacturer of Atlas. Listed among full-size humanoids (Section 2).”
Source→“He made the first robot in the world that could [do backflips] at high speed... influenced a whole generation of scholars.”
Source→“articulated arms on ANYmal and Spot perform dynamic grasping... The arm reaches a large workspace, but it sits high on the body, so reaching ground-level objects means reaching down past the legs, and the torso typically carries a single arm, which rules out simultaneous two-handed tasks.”
Source→“Nvidia and Hyundai's Boston Dynamics will broaden their partnership in the race to deliver humanoid robots.”
Source→“CMU's robotics program has strong industry pipeline to Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, and the Pittsburgh robotics corridor.”
Source→“The conventional wisdom in enterprise robotics is that serious manipulation capability requires serious hardware — Boston Dynamics, Franka, or custom high-DOF platforms.”
Source→“Boston Dynamics — in the past they were pure control theory. But now they've partnered with AI and they're using AI models to control the robots... there's been a lot of talk of them being used in factories. I think Hyundai is deploying them.”
Source→“You've probably seen lots of robots doing cool things on videos. Boston Dynamics and all of these viral videos... It turns out that all of those demonstrations are already in a lab setting.”
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