Boston Dynamics, which is owned by Softbank, began as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Marc Raibert and his colleagues first developed robots that ran and maneuvered like animals. Boston Dynamics has since become a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges.

It combines the principles of dynamic control and balance with sophisticated mechanical designs, cutting-edge electronics, and next-generation software for high-performance robots equipped with perception, navigation, and intelligence. Its robots include the Atlas humanoid, and Handle wheeled robot, and Spot quadruped. In June 2020, Boston Dynamics started selling Spot, marking the first time the company commercialized a robot.

Hyundai testing Spot quadruped as factory safety monitor

Hyundai Motor Group completed its nearly $1 billion acquisition of Boston Dynamics in June. And now we have our first glimpse at how Hyundai is testing Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped robot. Hyundai started testing the aptly named “Factory Safety Service Robot” at a Kia manufacturing plant in South Korea. This robot will be one of…
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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUuWWnfRsk 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,…

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DEARBORN, MI. July 27, 2020 – Fluffy looks at Scouter, an Autonomous Mobile Robot that can autonomously navigate facilities while scanning and capturing 3-D point clouds to generate a CAD of the facility. If an area is too tight for Scouter, Fluffy comes to the rescue. Ford is tapping four-legged robots at its Van Dyke Transmission Plant in early August to laser scan the plant, helping engineers update the original computer-aided design. These robots can be deployed into tough-to-reach areas within the plant to scan the area with laser scanners and high-definition cameras, collecting data used to retool plants, saving Ford engineers time and money. Ford is leasing two robots, nicknamed Fluffy and Spot, from Boston Dynamics – a company known for building sophisticated mobile robots.

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