{"id":63241,"date":"2026-01-05T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-boston-dynamics-upgraded-the-atlas-robot-and-whats-next\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:56:54","slug":"how-boston-dynamics-upgraded-the-atlas-robot-and-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-boston-dynamics-upgraded-the-atlas-robot-and-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"How Boston Dynamics upgraded the Atlas robot \u2014 and what&#8217;s next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>In 2021, 60 Minutes visited the offices of robotics company Boston Dynamics and met an early model of its humanoid robot, Atlas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It could run, jump and maintain its balance when pushed. But it was bulky, with stiff, mechanical movements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/boston-dynamics-training-ai-humanoids-to-perform-human-jobs-60-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Atlas<\/a><\/span> can cartwheel, dance, run with human-like fluidity, twist its arms, head and torso 360 degrees, and pick itself up off of the floor using only its feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They call it a humanoid, but he stands up in a way no human could possibly stand up,&#8221; correspondent Bill Whitaker told Overtime. &#8220;His limbs can bend in ways ours can&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter told Whitaker that Atlas&#8217; &#8220;superhuman&#8221; range of motion is keeping with the company&#8217;s vision for humanoid robots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think that&#8217;s the way you should build robots. Don&#8217;t limit yourself to what people can do, but actually go beyond,&#8221; Playter said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whitaker watched demonstrations of the latest Atlas model at Boston Dynamics&#8217; headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Rather than turning around to walk in the other direction, Atlas can simply rotate its upper torso 180 degrees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For us to turn around, we have to physically turn around,&#8221; he told Overtime. &#8220;Atlas just pivots on his core.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boston Dynamics&#8217; head of robotics research, Scott Kuindersma, told Whitaker that Atlas doesn&#8217;t have wires that cross its the joints of the limbs, torso and head, allowing continuous rotation for tasks and easier maintenance of the robot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The robot&#8217;s not really limited in its range of motion,&#8221; Kuindersma told Whitaker. &#8220;One of the reliability issues that you often find in robots is that their wires start to break over time\u2026 we don&#8217;t have any wires that go across those rotating parts anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another upgrade to the Atlas humanoid robot is its AI brain, powered by Nvidia chips.<\/p>\n<p>Atlas&#8217; AI can be trained to do tasks.\u00a0 One way is through teleoperation, in which a human controls the robot. Using virtual reality gear, the teleoperator trains Atlas to do a specific task, repeating it multiple times until the robot succeeds.<\/p>\n<p>Whitaker watched a teleoperation training session. A Boston Dynamics&#8217; machine learning scientist showed Atlas how to stack cups and tie a knot.<\/p>\n<p>Kuindersma told Whitaker robot hands pose a complex engineering problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Human hands are incredible machines that are very versatile. We can do many, many different manipulation tasks with the same hand,&#8221; Kuindersma said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boston Dynamics&#8217; new Atlas has only three digits on each hand, which can swing into different positions or modes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They can act as if they were a hand with these three digits, or this digit can swing around and act more like a thumb,&#8221; Kuindersma said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It allows the robot to have different shaped grasps, to have two-finger opposing grasp to pick up small objects. And then also make its hands very wide, in order to pick up large objects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kuindersma said the robot has tactile sensors on its fingers, which provide information to Atlas&#8217; neural network so the robot can learn how to manipulate objects with the right amount of pressure.<\/p>\n<p>But Kuindersma said there is still room to improve teleoperation systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being able to precisely control not only the shape and the motion, but the force of the grippers, is actually an interesting challenge,&#8221; Kuindersma told Whitaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s still a lot of opportunity to improve teleoperation systems, so that we can do even more dexterous manipulation tasks with robots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whitaker told Overtime, &#8220;There is quite a bit of hype around these humanoids right now. Financial institutions predict that we will be living with millions, if not billions, of robots in our future. 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