Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Boston Dynamics' Atlas Moving Engine Covers

Atlas doing some object manipulation under autonomous control (i.e. it isn't being remote controlled by humans). The robot is given a list of bin locations to move components between and has to work out how to manoeuvre them. This contrasts with industrial robot arms used for decades in factories to e.g weld and assemble car parts. Those robots are simply articulated arms, not much different to a digger and the movement range of the various "limbs" in three-dimensional space, driven by stepper motors, hydraulics or pneumatics is controlled by a sequence of commands in a computer program.