Toyota and Boston Dynamics Partner to Further Accelerate Humanoid Robot Research and Development
On October 16, 2024, Toyota's research organization,
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute Announce Partnership to Advance Robotics Research - Toyota USA Newsroom
https://pressroom.toyota.com/boston-dynamics-and-toyota-research-institute-announce-partnership-to-advance-robotics-research/
Toyota Joins With Hyundai's Boston Dynamics on AI-Powered Robots - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-16/toyota-hyundai-s-boston-dynamics-join-forces-for-ai-powered-robots
Boston Dynamics teams with TRI to bring AI smarts to Atlas humanoid robot | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/16/boston-dynamics-teams-with-tri-to-bring-ai-smarts-to-atlas-humanoid-robot/
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Partnership - IEEE Spectrum
https://spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynamics-toyota-research
TRI has made groundbreaking advances in developing large-scale behavioral models (LBMs) for teaching robotics using generative AI and plays a leading role in developing open source AI and datasets for robotics.
Boston Dynamics, on the other hand, is a robotics company that develops the humanoid robot 'Atlas' and the quadruped robot ' Spot ,' and has been at the forefront of robot development for more than several decades since its founding in 1992. In April 2024, Atlas was redesigned from the conventional hydraulic system to a fully electric system.
Boston Dynamics relaunches its humanoid robot 'Atlas' with a fully electric robot - GIGAZINE
On October 16, 2024, TRI and Boston Dynamics announced a research and development partnership. According to TRI, this partnership will combine TRI's expertise in LBM development with Boston Dynamics' Atlas to conduct research on use cases of AI-equipped robots in areas such as human-robot interaction. Specifically, Atlas' physical capabilities will be combined with motion programs developed by TRI to perform various tasks. Data on Atlas' performance will be collected to support more advanced LBM training, fundamental learning tasks for humanoid robots, the capabilities of research models that utilize full-body sensing, and understanding of human-robot interaction and safety and assurance cases.
TRI CEO Gill Pratt said, 'Recent advances in AI and machine learning have great potential to advance physical intelligence. Implementing TRI's cutting-edge AI technology into Boston Dynamics robots is a major breakthrough for us as we work to improve the quality of people's lives.' Pratt also told Bloomberg, an overseas media outlet, 'The research and development we are doing in the field of generative AI can be highly complementary to the developments Boston Dynamics has been conducting for many years.'
'There has never been a more exciting opportunity for the robotics industry, and we look forward to partnering with TRI to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots,' said Robert Plater of Boston Dynamics. 'This partnership brings together two companies with strong R&D foundations to build useful robots that will address a host of complex challenges and solve real-world problems.'
'Our ultimate goal is to have the robots we develop deployed on factory assembly lines and in homes to care for the elderly,' said Pratt. Both TRI and Boston Dynamics declined to comment on the project's timeline or budget.
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