The company recently put Atlas to work moving engine covers “between supplier containers and a mobile sequencing dolly” in a simulated factory environment. Thanks to the robot’s new machine learning capabilities and upgraded sensors, all it needed to be told to complete the task was a “list of bin locations to move parts between.”
That means that Atlas had to figure out all the individual steps to complete said task on its own. That included everything from finding the location of each bin to determining how to move its arms and legs and other body parts in order to carry out the task. Boston Dynamics added a “Fully Autonomous” watermark to its video of the whole thing to reinforce the fact that the robot is receiving minimal human intervention.
