Boston Dynamics’ has added additional payloads and hardware upgrades to its quadruped Spot to help it operate in more areas.
Take Spot for a walk at Robotics Summit & Expo
Attendees of the Robotics Summit & Expo will have the chance to test out Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robot Spot.
Boston Dynamics’ Stretch now commercially available
Stretch is a mobile robot that unloads floor-loaded trailers and containers. It can handle up to 50 lbs at a time.
Boston Dynamics delivering fleet of Stretch robots to DHL
Boston Dynamics will deliver a fleet of Stretch robots to multiple DHL warehouses throughout North America over the next three years.
Hyundai testing Spot quadruped as factory safety monitor
The robot provides real-time sharing of photos of on-site situations and an activity log with the control center.
Boston Dynamics Spot learns new skills with 3.0 release
Spot Release 3.0 enhances its data collection capabilities to improve ease of use and efficiency for facility inspection.
How Boston Dynamics makes Atlas run, flip & vault
A senior robotics engineer at Boston Dynamics explains how perception and adaptability enable Atlas to perform varied, high-energy behaviors like parkour.
Improved perception is pushing Atlas to new limits
By training Atlas to maneuver through complex parkour courses, Boston Dynamics developed new movements inspired by human behaviors and pushed the humanoid to new limits.
From artistic vision to hardware, here’s how to make Spot dance
Engineers use a few different techniques that employed both Spot’s Choreographer software and its API to make Spot dance.
Hyundai completes acquisition of Boston Dynamics
Hyundai paid about $880 million to acquire the controlling stake from Softbank in December 2020, valuing Boston Dynamics at $1.1 billion.
Inside Boston Dynamics’ robotics facility
I feel your pain, Anderson Cooper. I feel your pain. I too have been trying to get into Boston Dynamics’ headquarters for years, but to no avail. Certainly Boston Dynamics must have lost my phone number, which is why it reached out to you and 60 Minutes. If you missed it, Cooper and 60 Minutes…
Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot handles truck unloading & palletizing
Using robots to unload freight on receiving docks isn’t a novel idea. A quick YouTube search will return a slew of results. But many of these previous approaches have been stifled by high costs and the inability to handle a growing variety of packages. Of course, robotics companies are still working on the problem, which…
Boston Dynamics’ VP of Product Engineering on Developing Stretch
Suma Reddy, CEO of agriculture robotics startup Future Acres, joins us to discuss the future of agtech automation.
Robot arm opens new doors for Spot
Boston Dynamics today released several updates to its Spot product line. The goal is to enhance the quadruped’s ability to autonomously monitor job sites. To do so, the RBR50 company introduced a new version of the robot, Spot Enterprise, the Scout web-based teleoperation platform and its long-awaited Spot Arm. None of these products is more…
How to get ROS up & running on Spot
In September 2020, Clearpath Robotics released a ROS package for Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped. The idea was to allow robotics researchers to leverage ROS capabilities out-of-the-box, as well as open-source libraries, tools and the greater ROS community to accelerate their robotics development. Spot comes with a dedicated computer, power and communication interfaces and a flexible…
Marc Raibert on lessons learned from Atlas’ dance skills
We’ve learned a lot over the last month about how Boston Dynamics’ robots became such talented dancers. We now know the RBR50 company employed human dancers, reflexive control, simulation and new Choreographer software, among many other techniques. But we’ve yet to hear from Marc Raibert, founder, former CEO, and now chairman of Boston Dynamics. Until…
How Boston Dynamics’ robots learned to dance
Boston Dynamics detailed how its Atlas and Spot robots learned to dance, including its use of choreographers and model predictive control.
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Boston Dynamics talks about its big year and acquisition by Hyundai
In the final Robot Report Podcast for 2020, learn about Boston Dynamics’ plans for its legged robots after its acquisition by Hyundai Motor, as well as the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.
It’s official: Boston Dynamics is joining Hyundai
It’s official. Hyundai Motor Corp announced this morning it is acquiring a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics for about $880 million. Hyundai Motor will own 80% of Boston Dynamics, while a Softbank affiliate will retain the other 20%. The final numbers are a bit different than our initial reporting, but the deal values Boston Dynamics…
Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B
Update at 1 PM EST on Dec. 11, 2020: Hyundai Motor Group announced this morning it is acquiring 80% of Boston Dynamics for $880 million. Read Story. Hyundai Motor will acquire Boston Dynamics. The acquisition will be finalized at Hyundai’s December 10 board meeting. News about the deal was first reported by The Korea Economic Daily,…
Percepto partners with Boston Dynamics on industrial inspection
Percepto, an Israel-based developer of drones for monitoring and analyzing industrial sites, raised $45 million in Series B funding and partnered with RBR50 company Boston Dynamics. The Series B funding, led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, brings Percepto’s total funding to date to $72.5 million. With the funding, Percepto is launching its Autonomous Inspection & Monitoring…