Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) are to partner to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots using TRI’s Large Behaviour Models (LBM) and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.
The is, the companies say, an ideal platform for advancing the science of
AI-based manipulation skills. The project will allow research teams to deploy the robot across a range of tasks and collect data on its performance. That data
will be used to support the training of advanced LBMs and demonstrate that large, pre-trained models can enable the rapid acquisition of new whole- body skills.
The joint team will also conduct research to answer fundamental training questions for humanoid robots, the ability of research models to leverage whole-body sensing, and understanding human-robot interaction.
Source: Motor Trader e-Magazine (November 2024)
26 November 2024