Boston Dynamics NEW HUMANOID ROBOT SHOCKS The ENTIRE INDUSTRY! (New BOSTON Dynamics ATLAS)

humanoid form factor so you can see right here that they sayate traditionally we are focused on legged robots because we wanted to build robots that could balance and move dynamically robots that could navigate unstructured unknown or antagonistic terrain with ease and the main factor here the main reason that most people don't seem to think about because most people decide to question why these robots are humanoid because some people just think it just because they look cool that's not the reason is it's because the world is designed for humans so if you're going to design a robot you need to be able that can be plug andplay with our already established environments and one that works effectively I mean yes you could build robot dogs which is essentially what they've used to be focusing on but if you build a humanoid robot and it works very effectively you don't have to redesign the world around the robot you just have to design the robot around the existing world so robots with wheels don't really work well because of stairs and robots that can't walk upstairs don't work well in certain environments and you can see here that they said the humanoid form factor is useful design for robots working in a world designed for people so that's something that you should know now in

addition in the blog post they State some more interesting things they state that this is going to exceed human capabilities which is a little un ettling for those of you who may have watched too many Terminator movies so it says however that form factor doesn't limit our vision of how a bipedal robot can move what tools it needs to succeed and how it can help people accomplish more we designed the electric version of Atlas to be stronger more dexterous and more agile Atlas May resemble a human form factor but we are equipping the robot to move in the most efficient way possible to complete a task rather than being constrained by a human range of motion and that's why I have the pict of the robot here in the bottom left hand corner because we all saw exactly how that robot stood up it was probably the most uncanny thing I've ever seen a robot being able to swivel on its hips and just standing up like something out of a horror movie definitely interesting and I'm wondering how it's going to complete certain tasks when it's able to move and swivel its hips in a way that humans simply can't and it says here that Atlas will move in ways that exceed human capabilities combining Decades of practical experience with first principles think thinking we are confident in our ability to deliver a robot uniquely capable of tackling dull dirty and dangerous tasks in real applications and I think this is rather interesting because like I said I can already see some applications for this kind of robot because what we have here is a robot that is not limited to the human ranges of motion and this is something that I think we are going to probably see in the new robots being developed as far as I know this is the only robot that is able to move so fluidly and so freely you can see the head can do a full 360 the body 362 the legs as well it's absolutely incredible the types of movement and the ranges of movement that this robot is going to be able to do it's going to truly be an incredibly agile robot now something that you may have missed and there's a few more facts that I do want to show you is that one of the things I noticed was that this

robot actually looks pretty far and I think it's so fascinating to how quickly this robot is and this is actually no surprise because if you remember the previous version of Atlas it was very very quick now I think this robot might actually set the world record for the world's fastest moving robot because whilst it is just doing some standard walking there that does seem to be pretty quickly and if it's anything like its predecessor the other Atlas it will certainly be able to run and be very quick now there's also something that most people also didn't know and that was the grippers so when

the robot is standing up you can see its arms for a fraction of a second and it seems that what we're looking at here is the newly designed grippers that were placed on the recently demoed Atlas so if you may have not noticed recently there was an update to Boston Dynamics Atlas platform before it was retired and they actually showcased an interesting style of grippers so here we could see Atlas actually performing a kind of movement where it's being able to transport some kind of car strut into some shelf area and it seems that it has some upgraded grippers to be able to perform this tasks it doesn't look like a human hand whatsoever what it does look like is three different fingers or prongs whatever you want to call them and I think this might be the most effective mode of gripping objects for these humanoid robots because I can guarantee you guys they've already tested this a bunch of different times and I've seen humanoid robots and not just humanoid robots many other style of robots be able to move and grab objects with remarkable ease even with just two pronged grippers so it seems that this kind of grip is what is going to be present in this style of Atlas And this is exactly how the robot is likely to be gripping now something I also think is going to be possible is that they're going to be able to you know remove these grippers from the robot simply because it is likely going to be interchangeable I doubt that this robot is going to just have one set of grippers fasten to the robot I think they're going to be completely interchangeable at the side and that is something that I recently saw in another robot demo where at the start the robot literally just slips on its hand and I think that would be really useful because if you want to use the robot in multiple different use cases you can just literally slip on and off someone's hand in order to be able to apply it two different tasks and I think that is going to be pretty fascinating now what does this actually hold for the future because whilst yes this robot is actually pretty insane what is coming next so previously there was some kind of talk that was released where Boston Dynamics Executives actually spoke about what this robot is going to be like in the future now bear in mind this was ago so the information might be a little bit out of date but it still showcases the vision and where things could be heading and of course at some point you

know maybe you know the robot will be able to do things that a general purpose humanoid robot is expected to do and it's interesting you know what's in this picture is probably not 50 years away right I don't think it's around the corner as some people might want to make you believe but you know this is probably um in the 10-year time frame one of the biggest things that we are working feverishly to figure out is actually not the ability of the robot in terms of uh moving and obstacle avoidance and autonomy most of that we have figured out one of the biggest things for a humanoid robot like that is of course safety um because this is a strong robot uh and spot can work side bys side workers I think most of us feel pretty comfortable with him being in this room here and you know the bigger the robots get the more important safety will become so we can clearly see that there is a clear future of these humanoid robotss being able to do a lot of things such as delivering parcels and many other household tasks and like I said before if it's going to be anything like what we've seen here just imagining a humanoid robot form factor being able to run across you know different parkour environments being able to Simply turn its hips in a way that we've never seen before shows us that things are about to get really incredible I mean if we look at the previous version of Atlas we can see that it was limited by a huge pack on the back a huge battery pack and a huge wires on the legs which does allow it to do the level of turning that this robot can do now I think this is going to be a huge wakeup call for the robotics industry because I think people are now about to realize just how advanced robotics can be with boss and Dynamics seemingly taking the lead and what is an already very competitive robotics industry companies like figure Apollo uni tree Sanctuary Ai and 1X robotics all competing for the top spot as the world's most effective humanoid and of course there was something here that we did see the last part that I do want to mention is right here which seems to be some kind of vision system and I think this was pretty interesting because what we also did see was when this robot was essentially you know moving we saw that as it stood up this beam right here it did light up so I'm not sure what that was iding or maybe it was just turning on but I do think that was rather fascinating and we can see I'm going to highlight this for you all some cameras right here I think we can see three different cameras that are for sensing the environment so it will be interesting to see how those cameras are used if they're going to be able to identify certain things do certain tasks if this robot is going to come with some kind of vision system I mean it's a very fascinating future so with that being said let me know what you thought about this robot do you think that this is fast things are going crazy I think that this is pretty interesting for the future considering everything seems to be accelerating all in the same timeline and with that being said I'll see you guys in the next video