The partnership between Trimble and robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics gave the construction industry ‘Spot’ - its first fully-fledged robotic dog.
Now Boston Dynamics has released an amazing new video showing ‘Atlas’ the humanoid bringing tools to a construction worker on a scaffold.
The two-legged Atlas fetches a 17-pound tool bag for a worker on a scaffold and performs some impressive acrobatics and feats along the way.
Atlas, which has been shown in previous videos performing parkour and dancing, can now “lift, carry and throw larger, heavier objects than ever before,” according to Boston Dynamics.
Boston Dynamics uses “model predictive control” for Atlas’ operation. With it, models of the robot’s dynamics predict how it will move and then it makes adjustments. The model “searches over possible actions it can take now and in the near future to best achieve the set task,” the company says. Depth sensors generate point clouds to detect its surroundings.
The new Atlas video demonstrates the company’s ability to expand model predictive control to more complex tasks. The model now considers “the motion of every joint in the robot, the momentum of every link in the robot and the forces the robot applies on an object that it is carrying or throwing.”
Atlas consists of 28 hydraulic joints that are powered by a custom battery, a compact hydraulic power unit and valves. It can travel at a speed of up to 8.2 feet per second. It consists of 3D-printed parts, weighs 196 pounds and is about 5 feet tall.
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