Robotics Summit panel explores the state of humanoid robot design

“We brought it to CES this January for a whole week, just demoing, and next year, we’re going back,” Rodriguez added. “This year, we’re going back to the factory to show a more end-to-end demonstration of Atlas — a full learning pipeline, not just handling the behavior, but handling the entire workflow, connecting to the factory, and handling exceptions.”

He also noted that in Boston Dynamics’ journey to mass-production scale, the company has now secured enough customers (including Hyundai) that it has committed to deploy on the order of 25,000 humanoids in factories. Boston Dynamics has made an additional commitment to ramp up production capacity to 30,000 Atlas robots per year by 2028. Home

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“We’ve really been expanding the commercial side and learning from that to figure out — what do we need to close the remaining gaps that allow us to scale?” said Velagapudi. “That’s a couple of different things: It’s discoveries around what we needed out of the safety case, which has been a huge piece of all of this with an incredibly powerful, dynamically stable robot. How can we move around these facilities and be able to work in closer proximity or without guarding around humans?”