Boston Dynamics new all-electric Atlas robot

[gary]

Originally Posted by IEEE Spectrum

Today, Boston Dynamics is introducing a new version of its Atlas robot that’s all-electric. It’s powered by batteries and electric actuators, no more messy hydraulics. They claim it exceeds human performance in terms of both strength and flexibility. And for the first time, Boston Dynamics is calling this humanoid robot a product.

40 second video here :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ECwExc-_M

Story here :-
https://spectrum.ieee.org/atlas-humanoid-robot

Web page here :-
https://bostondynamics.com/blog/elec...era-for-atlas/

[wavelandscott (Scott)]

Thanks for sharing, we live in interesting times

[gary]

April 18th 2024

An interview with Boston Dynamics CEO, on the new Atlas robot :-
https://spectrum.ieee.org/atlas-huma...-ceo-interview

“This robot will be stronger at most of its joints than a person, and even an elite athlete, and will have a range of motion that exceeds anything a person can ever do.”
—ROBERT PLAYTER, BOSTON DYNAMICS

Originally Posted by IEEE Interview with CEO

In the context of Atlas’ range of motion, that introductory video was slightly uncomfortable to watch, which I’m sure was deliberate. Why introduce the new Atlas in that way?

Playter: These high range of motion actuators are going to enable a unique set of movements that ultimately will let the robot be very efficient. Imagine being able to turn around without having to take a bunch of steps to turn your whole body instead. The motions we showed [in the video] are ones where our engineers were like, “hey, with these joints, we could get up like this!” And it just wasn’t something we had that really thought about before. This flexibility creates a palette that you can design new stuff on, and we’re already having fun with it and we decided we wanted to share that excitement with the world.