Watch Atlas robot figure out how to manipulate and adapt to his surroundings.
Imagine this: You're working away up in the scaffolding, gleefully banging a random thing with your hammer to make it look like you're working, only to realise you've forgotten your entire tool bag. How are you going to pretend to do any work now? Not to worry. Just flip out your phone, tap a couple of buttons in your robo-servant app, and your on-site robot helper will deliver it right to your feet.
This is the future. A place where artificially intelligent robots not only help around the work site, but do so while amusing us with hardcore parkour moves. In fact, Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot has recently been showing off just the kind of energetic skills we like to see in the workplace., Atlas team lead Scott Kuindersma notes that the robot's latest exploits are meant to exemplify an"expansion of the research that we're doing on Atlas.
Now, rather than simply performing a set of actions around static objects—such as the assault course Atlas recently mastered aftertime and time again—the robot is learning to better perceive and manipulate the environment around him. When we interact with the world, we have been in it long enough to automatically adjust how much force we exert on a thrown object, or put into a jump, but as a mere babe in the world, Atlas has to learn these things as he goes.
"The robot has to be able to think about the properties of objects. Their shape. Their mass properties. And as it's manipulating these objects, the constraints that exist between the robot and the object. The forces that exist. And it has to have a control system that's able to balance what may be competing objectives related to stability or the manipulation task at hand.
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