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Today, we’re able to share some of the work that the RAI Institute has been doing to apply reality-grounded reinforcement learning techniques to enable much higher performance from Spot. The same techniques can also help highly dynamic robots operate robustly, and there’s a brand new hardware platform that shows this off: an autonomous bicycle that can jump.

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They also discuss:

• If Boston Dynamics use AI (artificial intelligence) tools in the screening process.
• How Boston Dynamics is attracting and interviewing the younger generation.
• How Boston Dynamics is addressing the hybrid work issue.

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Boston Dynamics has just introduced a new Atlas humanoid robot, replacing the legendary hydraulic Atlas and intended to be a commercial product. This is huge news from the company that has spent the last decade building the most dynamic humanoids that the world has ever seen.

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For years, the company has released wild videos of its human-shaped robot, Atlas, performing tricks such as dancing, doing back flips, and starring in a Super Bowl commercial. But the hydraulic-powered “research platform,” as the company called it, was never intendedfor sale.

Until now. On Wednesday, Boston Dynamics announced it has created a commercial version of Atlas that will be be sold — eventually — to the manufacturing industry.

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“The next generation of the Atlas program builds on decades of research and furthers our commitment to delivering the most capable, useful mobile robots solving the toughest challenges in the industry today: with Spot, with Stretch, and now with Atlas,” said the company in a blog post.

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Learn more about the history of the Atlas project.

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Venturing an educated guess, I would say that today’s Atlas retirement is less about endings than new beginnings. Most likely, the hulking humanoid is gracefully stepping out of the way of whatever is coming next for the firm.

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Upon their arrival the Troopers learned that the subject had fired upon officers with a rifle and barricaded himself inside the residence. The Troopers deployed two PacBot 510 tracked robots and a Spot four-legged robot to assist in locating the subject inside the residence. Deployment of the remote-controlled robotic platforms allowed the team to safely gather crucial intelligence and provide situational awareness of the suspect and the home’s interior.

The Troopers conducted interior and exterior robotic operations to systematically check the house – first deploying the Spot robot through the two top floors of the residence and cleared them.  The Troopers then deployed Spot into the home’s basement, when the male suspect suddenly appeared from a bedroom armed with a rifle.

The Troopers would later discover that that Roscoe had been shot three times by the suspect and had been rendered inoperable.

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You might think you already know Spot, the robot dog from Boston Dynamics. Maybe you saw a viral video of it opening a door, or dragging a truck, or dancing. But now, this robot has hit a HUGE milestone… Spot got a job! These robots are now out in the real world doing real work, for fire departments, factories, defunct nuclear power plants like Fukushima, ancient ruins like Pompeii, deep mines, and, more controversially, police departments. You might already be starting to see robot dogs walking around, and even if you’re not, they’re starting to affect your life.

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