Marc Raibert, founder and president of Boston dynamicsGive the world a man of two and four -legged machines capable of dropping the jaw Parkourinfection Dance habitand industrious stack.
Raibert is currently seeking to lead a revolution about robot intelligence as well as acrobatics. And he said the recent progress in Learn machine has accelerated its ability to learn how to perform difficult movements without human help. Hopefully we will be able to create many behaviors without having to do everything that robots do, recently, Mr. Rai Raibert told me.
Boston Dynamics may have been pioneered in leg robots, but now it is part of a group of crowded companies that provide robots and human -shaped dogs. Just this week, a startup called the picture showed one The new person is called Helix, clearly can unload the grocery goods. Another company, X1, has shown a person who looks like a gamma Do housework around the house. One third, apptronik, said they had a plan Expand production scale of his human figure, called Apollo. The demo may be misleading, though. In addition, very few companies disclose their costs, and it is unclear how many of them really expect to sell them as home helpers.
The real test for these robots will be how much they can be independent of human programming and direct control. And that will depend on advancements like the Raibert people are offering. Last November I wrote about The efforts to create completely new types of models To control the robot. If that job starts to carry left, we can see human figures and four times faster.
Boston Dynamics sells a four -legged robot called Point It is used on oil rigs, construction sites and other places where wheels struggle with the terrain. The company also creates a human being called Atlas for research. Raibert said that Boston Dynamics used one Artificial intelligence technique Called learning to upgrade Spot's ability to run, so that it can move faster than three times. The same method is helping Atlas to walk more confidently, Raibert said.