One step closer to general-purpose humanoids 🤖 TRI and Boston Dynamics have jointly demonstrated Atlas performing complex, continuous tasks powered by Large Behavior Models (LBMs). This collaboration brings together TRI’s work on embodied AI systems with Boston Dynamics’ advanced humanoid platform to enable whole-body manipulation and locomotion. This milestone highlights how LBMs can accelerate the development of general-purpose robots capable of adapting to real-world environments. Learn more about this work: https://lnkd.in/eb7PZxvY
Great milestone by Toyota Research Institute and Boston Dynamics 👏. At Corvus Solutions, we see huge potential for logistics: #humanoids powered by Large Behavior Models could support tasks like goods receiving, picking and returns, while adapting to dynamic environments. A next step towards flexible, human-centric #intralogistics 🚀.
That's truly excellent. Full autonomy is the way to go. If a human is involved in the cost-structure, it is difficult to properly commodify the service; it is hard to cost out the initial investment, overhead, replacement costs, etc. That's my suggestion, anyways. Full autonomy with an AI controller and an emergency proximity shut-off that a human can trigger.
I was waiting to see what would happen if the destination bin were moved. It's clear in the first half of the video that the robot has defined states that it checks for throughout the task: (1) that the source bin (the bin with all of the parts) is in front of it, (2) that the bin's lids are both open, and (3) that there are remaining parts in or around the source bin. While it's cool to see a mechanical humanoid perform these tasks using sensors and human-like movements learned via complex AI models, it's kinda silly to demonstrate that you cannot "fool" the robot in what is clearly a very templated setting. Just... stop that. Instead, just stick to explaining to people why they should be impressed, as there is plenty of legit "stuff" there that most people will not readily see or appreciate.
Interesting how it pulled the box towards itself to make access easier. I find the complexity of these robots fascinating. It's moving with the same slow and measured movements as an arthritic 70-year old with infinite patience, then dropping them with all the care of a GenZ on minimum wage delivering other people's parcels (in this video, anyway), but it's still such a quantum leap from robots a decade or two ago.
Finally, a practical application and not a dance performance. 🙌 I'm curious to see how the capabilities and prices of humanoid robots will develop in the next 2-3 years.
Impressive milestone and a great example of how embodied AI, advanced mechatronics, and machine learning are converging into scalable robotics. From an industrial automation perspective, the shift toward generalist, language-conditioned policies is a real breakthrough – especially for complex, real-world manipulation tasks involving non-rigid objects. We're moving from rule-based logic to behavior-driven systems – and that’s where the future of robotics lies. Kudos to TRI and Boston Dynamics for pushing the limits.
This is a very interesting footage. I am genuinely impressed with how the robot overcome the challenges presented, such as closing the lid. Perhaps in a short period it would be able to operate among humans.
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