The Atlas humanoid robot doing a cartwheel. | Source: Boston Dynamics Robots have captured our imagination. We have seen humanoids balancing on one leg, doing backflips, folding laundry, and moving smoothly over difficult terrain. This is all behavior that only a few years ago seemed like something out of science fiction. These viral examples matter because they show that embodied AI has reached a new technical stage. At the same time, the window on what qualifies as a “humanoid robot” seems to be shifting. Robot companies are adding wheels, more sensors, new manipulators, hats, and screens, while they take away eyes and heads from their humanoid robot designs. As an engineering ecosystem working directly alongside humanoid developers to solve core…
Source: The Robot Report