Ever since he was a kid, Daniel has had a symbiotic relationship with his electronics, whether it's fine-tuning his PC and game consoles, caring for collectible toys from his favorite shows, or tinkering with software and games for optimal performance.
in various industries and professions, particularly factories and assembly lines. While we haven't achieved complete robotic automation just yet, movements are being made ever so slowly to start training the first generation of laboring robots.
One of these movements is occurring at a Hyundai facility in Georgia, where Boston Dynamics' signature robot, Atlas, is learning how to sort and sequence automotive parts. Back in 2021, Hyundai made a substantial investment in Boston Dynamics' development of the bipedal Atlas robot. That investment has begun to bear fruit, as Boston Dynamics, demonstrating its impressive abilities to lift heavy objects, bend and rotate, and even scan and analyze objects with its tactile fingers. Atlas has already begun on-the-job training in a segmented corner of a Hyundai factory to begin taking the reins on some jobs from human workers.The current version of Atlas is substantially more advanced than previous iterations that have been seen dancing and performing gymnastics routines on YouTube. As shown at CES, Atlas is equipped with aand powered by Nvidia hardware. Rather than the previous algorithmic routines that governed its movements, Atlas can now learn and respond to external stimuli. The keyword there is"learn," however, advanced as it has become, Atlas cannot simply be dropped into a factory and put to work. It needs to learn a task inside and out before it can perform it reliably and consistently. This is why Hyundai has placed Atlas models in a segregated section of its Georgia factory to begin training them on tasks like sorting roof racks or sequencing parts for assembly. Atlas will need to practice these tasks for at least several years before it has accumulated enough training and data to perform them on the real assembly line. "Rather than having a set of predefined, loaded tasks onto the robot, we think robots should understand the physical world the same way we do,"."They should be able to learn from their experience. Should be able to generalize new situations and get better over time. So whether it is to assemble a new car part or to tie your shoelaces, robots should learn the same way we do from a handful of examples, and then get better very quickly with a little bit of practice."
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