While it has been over 6 years since the unusual gait of Boston Dynamics’ robotic dog first caught people’s attention and over 2 years since its Spot robot dog went on sale, the robot’s capabilities continue to impress. Besides going up and down stairs, its recent appearance in dance routines could be its best trick […]

In a YouTube video posted Tuesday titled “Mush, Spot Mush!,” Boston Dynamics showed off the strength of its SpotMini quadrupeds. The video, which at press time had already been viewed more than 260,000 times, shows 10 SpotMini robots pulling a truck across the company’s parking lot. According to Boston Dynamics, the parking lot is slopped…

The Robot Report heard rumors about this over the last few days, but today it’s been confirmed. Boston Dynamics acquired Kinema Systems, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup that uses vision sensors and deep-learning software to help robots manipulate boxes. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, Kinema’s Pick system…

Holy mobile manipulation, Batman! Boston Dynamics just released a new video of its reimagined Handle robot. The Waltham, Mass.-based company is now calling Handle a “mobile manipulation robot designed for logistics. Handle autonomously performs mixed SKU pallet building and depalletizing after initialization and localizing against the pallets.” Handle uses an on-board vision system to track…

Building humanoid robots that can do useful things in the real world, not just research labs, is very difficult. Besides being extremely expensive to build and buy, bipedal locomotion is the major hurdle robotics developers have yet to perfect. Quadruped robots such as Boston Dynamics’ SpotMini and ANYbotics’ ANYmal are more stable walkers and, therefore,…

As always, the internet is abuzz about Boston Dynamics latest videos. And rightfully so. In the video above, the Atlas humanoid robot is doing parkour, jumping across a multi-layered platform and shifting its weight between feet. It’s incredible to watch and adds another athletic feat to the humanoid robot’s repertoire. From the video description: “The…

2019 will be the year of commercial class legged robots. That was the message delivered by Agility Robotics and Boston Dynamics during their respective opening and closing keynotes at the inaugural Robotics Summit & Showcase, produced by The Robot Report and WTWH Media in Boston. Agility Robotics CEO and co-founder Damion Shelton updated attendees on…

Remember the humanoid robots from the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals? They couldn’t take two steps without falling all over themselves. Well, Boston Dynamics is showing just how far the technology has come in three years. And it’s putting that competition, and its participants, to shame. Waltham, Mass.-based Boston Dynamics released new videos of its…

WTWH Media, LLC announced that Boston Dynamics founder and CEO Marc Raibert will deliver the closing keynote at the 2018 Robotics Summit & Showcase. Taking place at the Westin Boston Waterfront in Boston on May 23-24, 2018, the Robotics Summit is an international educational forum dedicated to addressing the technical issues involved with the design, development,…

More than 650 fluid power manufacturers, users and academics have come here to Aachen, a small western German city, to talk about the future of hydraulics and pneumatics technology, as well as current R&D projects. However, last night, what everyone was talking about was robots. The closing keynote at the 11th International Fluid Power Conference…

What is SpotMini’s level of autonomy? That was the first question that came to mind last week when Boston Dynamics released a video of its SpotMini robot dog opening a door. Now we have a little more insight into that question. Boston Dynamics released a new video (watch below) testing SpotMini’s robustness or ability to…