New Capabilities of Boston Dynamics’ Humanoid Robot Atlas

Boston Dynamics’ humanoid Robot Atlas, approx. 10 years in development and constantly learning new skills like a child. If you remember, last year Atlas’ parkour The video was shared.

A video showing Atlas’ new capabilities was posted on Boston Dynamics’ YouTube channel today. Let’s take a closer look at the new movements of these humanoid robots together.

He does things that even humans can’t do easily.

As you can see in the video, Atlas throws his toolbox forward on a construction scaffold set up for testing purposes, then pushes the box to make a new path for himself and puts his show into a beautiful show. Ends with a 540 degree somersault. Of course, this video may seem meticulously edited or simply fake, but Atlas’ engineers explain their work on Atlas for 1 year in another video they shared.

According to the information given in the video, Atlas no longer needs a remote control. can move on its own. All you have to do is tell Atlas what to do. For example, the command that allows you to do all the movements in the video you just watched is “Bring me the repair kitIt was a simple bit command like ”. Following this command, Atlas simultaneously scans his surroundings with a color and a depth camera on his head, detects obstacles and makes a way for himself, and finally detects the bag. Of course, Atlas doesn’t know for sure if it’s a bag because the robot doesn’t yet have sensors to detect it. Atlas matches the objects he sees with the information in his memory and trying to figure out if the shape he sees is a bag or a box.

According to the engineers’ statement, Atlas has not acted in the last 1 year, overcoming obstaclesmoving objects and analyze the environment made great progress in this regard. In fact, our humanoid robot can even see an object for the first time. can more or less guess how to carry it. Of course, during all these movements, Atlas constantly calculates the next step and how much pressure he has to walk with which foot, from how to balance with the object he is carrying. decides everything instantly. we must not forget. It was also announced that most of the software development process of Atlas was completed in simulations.

Finally, the 540-degree somersault you see at the end of the video is of great importance for Atlas engineers. 1 year ago robot he can barely do a 360 degree somersault engineers, stating that Atlas is just like a track runner. using the laws of physics He states that he learned how to do a somersault, but that his parts were damaged due to falling many times during this process.

Video explaining the development phase of Atlas