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Boston Dynamics teams with TRI to bring AI smarts to Atlas humanoid robot

Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) Wednesday revealed plans to bring AI-based robotic intelligence to the electric Atlas humanoid robot.

In research revealed at last year’s Disrupt conference, institute head Gill Pratt explained how the lab has been able to get robots to 90% accuracy when performing household tasks like flipping pancakes through overnight training. The Spot-maker has done its share on the software and AI front to power its own systems, but the manner of work required to teach robots to perform complex tasks with full autonomy is another beast altogether. Certainly, the advent of SDK for systems has helped dramatically increase the breadth of tasks that can be performed by robots like Boston Dynamics’ Spot, true artificial general intelligence is further off – if we ever get there.

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