Boston Dynamics has handled us to quite a lot of spectacular movies over time and the corporate is again at the moment with the newest instance of its robotics mastery. Within the clip above, its Atlas robotic demonstrates a number of varieties of full-body motion, beginning with a stroll and advancing to a cartwheel and even a spot of break dancing. The totally different actions have been developed utilizing reinforcement studying that used movement seize and animation as supply supplies. At this fee, our future robotic overlords will have the ability to out-dance and out-tumble us people in addition to out-think us in the future.
The video is a part of Boston Dynamics' analysis with the Robotics and AI Institute, but it surely has a number of companions aiding its work. As an illustration, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang touched on the corporate's GR00T mannequin for robotics throughout the GTC 2025 keynote earlier this week. Yesterday, Boston Dynamics introduced that it’s deepening its collaboration with the corporate centered on AI in robotics. It’s utilizing NVIDIA's Jetson Thor computing platform to run "advanced, multimodal AI fashions that work seamlessly with Boston Dynamics’ whole-body and manipulation controllers."
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