Atlasrobot Boston Dynamicswhich has the ability to run, dance and jump with human-like movements, received an update in its development and the demo finished it off with an inverted jump.

New to the device is a pair of hands that are specifically tweezers, giving it the ability to pick up and drop objects on its own.

Consisting of a fixed and mobile finger, this new piece is designed to lift heavy objects and was first shown in a Super Bowl ad in which he was holding a barrel on his head.

Latest demo testing for you all current opportunities. The researchers created a fictional construction site scenario in which a person stands on top of a structure and needs a suitcase with a set of tools.

The robot must bring this object to the person, but first analyze the situation, pick up the board and create a bridge to cross the road. He then picks up a suitcase, climbs some small stairs, walks across a bridge he’s created, jumps onto another structure, and throws the kit at a person on a high stage.

To complete the demo, Atlas He rises from the starting structure, drops the box, and finally spins in the air as if he were someone practicing parkour.

“The final movement is a 540-degree inverted wheel in several axes, it adds asymmetry to the movement of the robot, making it a much more difficult skill than previously performed parkour,” the developers of the device said at the end of the video. .

Regarding the news about the work, the people responsible for the project claim that this is something that they have not achieved before and that, although the jumping and dancing may be less eye-catching, the manipulation of objects is a function that requires an understanding of nuances. environment.

In addition, they emphasized the speed of the robot’s actions, which allows it to give the appropriate useful projection. “It’s important to us that the robot can perform these tasks at some human speed,” they said.

The Atlas Project

The A humanoid robot He was born in 2013 and since his creation has featured very close-to-human movements and abilities, featuring in several viral videos like this latest one.

Its development is not intended to create a commercial product, but is focused on robotics research, this time for a device that can do what it is asked to do.

“Our hope is that if we can build the fundamental technology that allows us to easily create and customize dynamic behaviors like this, we should be able to use it to rapidly perform real and physically demanding work in the future,” its creators note. .

To achieve this, they use activities that require different solutions, e.g Parkour Understand the robot’s limitations and dance to find precision in their movements. Now, with the addition of tweezers, they are forced to “take that information and interpret it in terms of how we force our hands to do something specific.”

Currently, the biggest competitor of this project is Robonaut of Georgia pot, which is also a humanoid robot that offers hand-like pins.

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