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Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced the partnership It is designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to the humanoid robot of the electric atlas. The attachment is the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI Institute), formerly called Boston Dynamics AI Institute.
Both organizations were founded by Marc Raiber, a former professor, who was CEO of Boston Dynamics for 30 years. Founded in 2022, the institute allows Raiber to continue research on Boston Dynamics.
Both have a relationship with Hyundai. The Korean car manufacturer acquired Boston Dynamics in 2021; Hyundai also funds the institute, providing Raibert Free Rein to explore the most important technologies for experimental and bleeding, as possible for a commercial company. The institute reflects the Toyota TRI or the Toyota Research Institute, which announced its own partnership with Boston Dynamics in October, focusing on the use of large behavioral models. (LBMS).
The Twin Partnership is designed to improve new tasks for the Boston Dynamics Electric atlas humanoid. The Robotics and the AI Institute focuses specifically on learning reinforcement, a method that operates through trial and faults, similar to learning humans and animals. Confirmation learning was traditionally extremely time consuming, although the creation of effective simulation made it possible to implement many processes at the same time in a virtual environment.
The Boston Dynamics/Rai Institute Union started in Massachusetts earlier this month. This is the latest in a number of cooperation between couple, including joint efforts to develop a four -time on -site robot of Boston Dynamics (which is the familiar robot “dog”). The new work focuses on the transfer of simulation-based learning to the real environment and improve how the company humanoid atlas passes and interacts with physical environments.
The latter is concerned, Boston Dynamics points out “full body manipulation of heavy objects”. Both are examples of operations needed to synchronize the legs and arms. The form of humanoid bipedal forms many unique challenges and opportunities compared to the patch. All activities are also exposed to a wide range of forces, including balance, strength, resistance and movement.
A bigger picture, Raiber, notes in a statement: “Our goal at RAI is to enable future generations of smart machines. Working with Boston Dynamics at Atlas allows us to step forward in the learning of confirmation on the most indisputable humanoid robot. This work will play a decisive role in promoting humanoid abilities, not only by expanding their skills, but also by rationalizing the process to achieve new skills. ”
The news of the partnership arrives one day after AI founder and CEO, Brett Adcock, announced that the Bay Area Company will leave Openai partnership to develop their own home models.
“We have found that in order to embody AI in the scale of the real world, the robot AI must be integrated vertically,” the managing director told Techcrunch. “For the same reason, we cannot outsource AI that we cannot outsource our hardware.”
The figure found that the best AI models in the humanoid are those developed specifically for its robots, inside the house. The Openai was an approach to embodied intelligence – that is, in the physical form of AI – was clearly less concentrated, given the size and scope of the chatgpt maker. This news also arrived at the corner of the rumors to investigate the creation of Openai’s own humanoid robots.
Most companies in humanoid space work on their own customized AI models. This probably applies to Boston Dynamics, which has decades of experience in developing software developing its own unique robotic systems. While the RAI Institute is a technically separate organization, both share the parent company, the founder and presumably the common goals.
