Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Boston Dynamics’ HD Atlas Robot Retires”.
Boston Dynamics announced this morning that its famous HD Atlas, humanoid robot, is retiring. After almost 11 years in development, The Cutting Edge robotics company posted a farewell tribute, video to HD Atlas on its YouTube channel, showcasing the robots rise and fall, and there were many of them as the humanoid learned to walk eventually evolving into a skilled and agile Acrobat. That amazed, us, with its balance and Poise, the atlas Disaster Response robot made its debut in a post on darpa’s website on July 11th, 2013, coming in at 6′, 2 in tall and weighing 330 lbs. The original Atlas robot was tethered with cables for the power supply and control systems and was operated by a human. Much like the toy robots. We grew up playing with the humanoid robot was developed by Boston Dynamics in walam Massachusetts for DARPA.
The defense Advanced research projects agency and was originally created to take part in the DARPA robotics challenge, which was a robotics prize competition held from 2012 to 2015, and it was meant to speed up the development of advanced robotics in multiple areas, including Hardware, software and controll Control surfaces, Boston Dynamics was acquired by the Hyundai Motor Group in June of 2021 and they have continued developing some eye openening robots at an accelerated Pace, including spot the robot dog greetings good. Sir, may I have the pleasure of knowing your names and stretch a robot designed for industrial applications as Ai and humanoid robots continue to grow in popularity. We are seeing some bold competition from Tesla’s Tesla bot, digit from agility, robotics, Stanford, robotics Labs ocean one and most recently nvidia’s project Groot robotics platform, which is being positioned as an AI training model and operating system for a number of future humanoid robots. The retirement of HD Atlas leaves us all thinking what is next for Boston Dynamics. This, surely, is not the end of their humanoid robot devel El. So what will come next? Whatever it is, it will be a breathtaking humanoid bot that will be able to perform all sorts of Tas that we probably haven’t even thought about yet Amazon’s Astro home security robot can monitor your home with a periscoping camera. Just like R2-D2, while Samsung’s Bali, Helm robot, can project video onto a wall for you just like R2D2. So what might we see next from Boston, Dynam dyamics? Will it be a home assistant or factory worker, or will it be joining the police academy or the military? Most likely, it will be all of the above, but it’s fun to speculate so leave a comment about what you think it will be able to do in the future. Until then, we can only enjoy the entertaining videos of HD Atlas, showing off its dance moves and be amazed by how far along the robot has come in the last decade. So let’s pour one out to HD Atlas and say goodbye to the end of an era.
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