Those talented engineers at Boston Dynamics have done it again.
In a February 27th 2017 article at the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum magazine web site,
Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman have an article about the unveiling
by Boston Dynamics of their latest robot, which they call "
Handle".
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Originally Posted by IEEE, Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman
When Boston Dynamics introduced its massively upgraded Atlas last year, we said the robot could “do things we’ve never seen other robots doing before, making it one of the most advanced humanoids in existence.” But now, after seeing the video that Boston Dynamics just released to officially unveil its newest creation, Handle, a sort of Atlas on wheels, we’ll just say it again: Handle can do things we’ve never seen other robots doing before, making it one of the most advanced humanoids in existence.
“Wheels are a great invention,” Marc Raibert, founder and president of Boston Dynamics, tells IEEE Spectrum, adding that Handle, which uses a wheel-leg hybrid system, “can have the best of both worlds.”
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Boston Dynamics says Handle is an “R&D robot,” so although it can perform a number of useful tasks, like carrying 45-kilogram crates, it probably won’t be commercially available anytime soon. Handle has a range of 24 kilometers on a battery charge, which is much more than what it would be able to cover with traditional bipedal robot locomotion. Using wheels also helps reduce the number of degrees of freedom, and the company says Handle is “significantly less complex” than some of the quadruped and biped robots that preceded it. |
Article here :-
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/r...s-handle-robot
If nothing else, enjoy the 1 minute 36 second video of Handle in
action - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c
Boston Dynamic's unveils "Handle" - their amazing humanoid robot on wheels
