Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot was recently captured unboxing and racking automotive shocks at what appears to be a trade show. This required the humanoid robot to combine strength, perception, and mobility to perform the task.
Thanks to artificial intelligence, Atlas is able to connect its perception and control centers together, thus enabling it to adapt to any task on the fly in real-time. In this demonstration, we see that it can use both hands and its full range of motion to unbox as well as rack automotive shocks. Depth sensors allow it to generate point clouds of the environment, while models of the robot’s dynamics predict how its motion will evolve over time.
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