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Boston Dynamics’ electric Atlas humanoid executes autonomous automotive parts picking


Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid has been quietly improving by leaps and bounds behind the scenes. Announced in April, we caught some brief insight into the

Boston Dynamics is quick to note that the actions are being performed autonomously, without “prescribed or teleoperated movements.” That caveat is seemingly a bit of shade tossed at other humanoid demos that have been misleading in a bid to capture online attention. It’s not clear how much of the three-minute video is a product of that partnership, which brings TRI’s impressive robotics learning and real-time adaptations to the platform. As with competitors like Figure, Tesla, and Apptronik, Boston Dynamics’ first applications for the bipedal robot include work in automotive factories.

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