Stay updated with the latest news from the portal by subscribing for free to our WhatsApp channel. Receive notifications directly on your mobile phone, ensuring you never miss out on the most relevant news updates. In a recent development, the American engineering and robotics company, Boston Dynamics, equipped its robot, Atlas, with hands and taught it to manipulate objects.
In a video shared by Boston Dynamics, a worker realizes he forgot his tools while standing on a scaffold. To assist, the robot picks up the requested bag, ascends the scaffold using a wooden plank as a bridge, lifts it to the worker, and gracefully descends by flipping. With Atlas’s pincers having two fingers – one stationary and one movable – the robot displays enough manual dexterity to handle planks as bridges and deliver the tool bag to its human counterpart.
Previously known for being tight-lipped about their robot development, Boston Dynamics has now released a 9-minute video explaining the preparations made to showcase Atlas’s latest demonstration. Employing a technique known as model predictive control, Boston Dynamics enables the robot to anticipate the consequences of its actions in a given scenario. Currently, Atlas serves as a research platform, with Boston Dynamics’ sole commercial robot being the four-legged Spot, priced at $74,500.
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