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Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot goes electric

The future is electric for Boston Dynamics as they announce ‘new era’ for humanoid robot Atlas which is designed for real-world applications.

In a blog post released on the company’s website, the team says they’ll be “partnering with a small group of innovative customers, beginning with Hyundai, to test and iterate Atlas applications over the next few years. “For example, our last generation hydraulic Atlas could already lift and maneuver a wide variety of heavy, irregular objects; we are continuing to build on those existing capabilities and are exploring several new gripper variations to meet a diverse set of expected manipulation needs in customer environments.” Combining decades of practical experience with first principles thinking, we are confident in our ability to deliver a robot uniquely capable of tackling dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks in real applications.”

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