Title: New Fully Electric Atlas Robot Revealed by Boston Dynamics
Author: CNET

Transcript:
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Boston Dynamics posted a teaser video of
its new all El electric Atlas robot
showing the humanoid number1 standing up
from a lying down position swiveling its
body around to face the camera with a
glowing head that resembles a ring light
and then turning and walking out of
frame the robot's Limbs and torso seem
to be omnidirectional with the ability
to rotate and any direction while its
face appears to be a simple round piece
of glass likely containing an array of
cameras and an antenna on the back of
its head the robot turns its head before
its torso to turn and walk away giving
off a sci-fi movie Vibe the description
of the video reads we are unveiling the
next generation of humanoid robots a
fully electric Atlas robot designed for
real world applications the 26c video
clip comes a day after the robotics
company posted a heartfelt farewell
tribute video to its hydraulic Atlas
robot which has been in development for
almost 11 years the atlas robot was
first developed by DARPA the defense
Advanced research projects agency and
slowly evolved over the last decade from
the original Petman robot one of their
first bipedal robots into the impressive
dancing and acrobatic robot we've come
to know in a number of clever
demonstration videos published by Boston
Dynamics although Atlas never came to
Market Boston Dynamics has been focused
on Industrial robots for Enterprise
application ations including automation
for sensing and inspection workplace
safety and situational
awareness the company's spot robot which
resembles a four-legged doglike robot is
already being put to use in factories
and is marketed as a reliable and
scalable partner on the factory floor
its ability to collect data and Survey a
workplace could make it a valuable asset
but as with any new innovation it could
cost human workers their jobs generative
AI has been top of mind the past few
years as popular artificial intelligence
assistants like chat gbt are being
trained to handle a large number of
tasks including creative writing
customer service and even video
production which is my feel of work at
an alarming rate AI is already being
incorporated into Boston Dynamics robots
like spot giving it the ability to
interact in a conversational way with
humans utilizing a number of personas
and voices greetings good
may I have the pleasure of knowing your
names welcome to Boston Dynamics I am
spot your tour guide
robot stretch is another large- scale
robot being developed by Boston Dynamics
for the factory floor which doesn't
require much infrastructure to deploy
its ability to work longer hours lifting
heavier loads without taking a break
make it a desirable and flexible tool
for industry but again it will most
likely replace a job that was once done
by a human worker the electric Atlas
robot by Boston Dynamics is a direct
competitor to Tesla's Optimus robot
currently being developed and trained by
the company Tesla's robots are learning
by using AI training models fed from
Human demonstrations and end-to-end
manipulations the Tesla Bots also have
the luxury of learning from data
collected from Tesla's full self-driving
chips Dojo chips and neural networks
Tesla's website describes Optimus as
being a general purpose by pedal
autonomous humanoid robot capable of
Performing unsafe repetitive or boring
tasks as Fierce competition of
autonomous robots and AI heats up we are
likely to see a star wars-like Future
come sooner than later with humanoids
taking on difficult tasks that people no
longer see a need to perform due to the
difficulty of the job or general safety
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