How did Hyundai do what Google and DARPA couldn’t? (Category Robotics)

I watched with interest. history This is a version of the Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics and Hyundai, which shows that Atlas is no longer just a research legend and begins to turn into an industrial product. The history of this robot grew out of the need for a humanoid robot for accidents like the Fukushima accident, and now Hyundai is preparing it for real work in its factories.

The main idea of the story is that in robotics, the winner is not the one who has the most viral demo, but the one who knows how to assemble the full outline. The new robot Atlas this outline looks like this Boston Dynamics brings mechanics, control and years of R&D Google DeepMind - a new layer of embodied AI Hyundai – factory discipline, supply chain, internal first customer and path to scale Without this last link, even a very beautiful humanoid easily remains just an expensive laboratory demonstration.

If we talk about the main technical history, these are actuators. (enforcement). Hyundai Mobis directly writes that they are balled key components with car control systems, and the actuators themselves eat more. 60Percentage of the value of Atlas humanoids. And it shows how Hyundai has provided a breakthrough in the preparation of the robot for production: not through “invent everything from scratch”, but through the clever reuse of an already established industrial base from a neighboring industry.

If we talk about the product part, Boston Dynamics itself admits that the previous version of Atlas was too expensive and difficult to repair, and the product version was specifically made easier and easier to maintain. (TCO reduction, total cost of ownership). It is also important that the new Atlas does not just copy a person, but can work in a world already designed for a person. Boston Dynamics says it’s designed for the same workstations and equipment as humans — allowing it to be used in current automated machine factories as a drop-in replacement for human labor at workflow stages that have not been automated before.

The capabilities of the robot and the iron under the hood look serious, as a result, the robot has: 56 degrees of freedom, almost continuous kinematics, tactile hands (tactile hands), 360Overview, autonomous battery replacement, autonomous / VR / tablet modes, integration with MES and WMS via Orbit. But the most important thing is not even the numbers, but the fact that Atlas is already teaching real production operations and thinking about rolling out new skills to the entire fleet of robots. It’s no longer like a single smart robot, but a new software-defined physical platform.

But Boston Dynamics doesn’t overclock the hype, but says it starts with simple tasks and only then moves toward more complex assembly and dense work alongside people. So the robotics revolution is likely to come not in one big leap, but in a series of boring, very engineering iterations. (as usual)

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