Boston Dynamics has sold out the entire 2026 production run of its electric Atlas humanoid robot, with every unit spoken for by parent company Hyundai and Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab ...
In 2021, 60 Minutes visited the offices of robotics company Boston Dynamics and met an early model of its humanoid robot, Atlas. It could run, jump and maintain its balance when pushed. But it was ...
Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot can already trot across rubble, open doors, and inspect industrial sites. Now, a research effort involving Google DeepMind is exploring whether the quadruped can learn to ...
Then in February, as Semafor notes, Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter retired. Then for whatever reason the CTO and CFO left. Semafor’s anonymous sources are former employees, ...
Boston Dynamics has been working on the Atlas robot since 2013, and it's come a long way since. The key? Humanoid robots shouldn't copy human anatomy exactly, said Boston Dynamics' CEO Robert Playter ...
Robots such as Boston Dynamics’ four-legged Spot can now accurately read analog thermometers and pressure gauges while roaming around factories and warehouses. Those improvements come courtesy of ...