Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute recently announced a new partnership to accelerate the development of advanced humanoids, with plans to integrate the Large Behavior Models (LBMs) from TRI on the Atlas electric robot.
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The details
- Toyota's LBMs aim to teach robots multitasking, dexterous vision, and language-guided capabilities.
- The partnership combines two robotics labs owned by rival automakers, Hyundai (which bought Boston Dynamics in 2020) and Toyota.
- TRI’s “Dissemination Policy” enables robots to learn more than 60 complex skills from human demonstrations without coding, a key component of the partnership’s research efforts.
- Boston Dynamics retired its Atlas hydraulic robot in April and debuted the electric upgrade, currently being tested at Hyundai's automotive plants.
Why does it matter
The race for commercial humanoids is heating up fast – and this partnership represents a major power play. But with the likes of Tesla Optimus, Figure's 01 humanoids and others in the mix, there's no shortage of rivals racing to capture the enormous potential of emerging general-purpose robots.
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