Taylor Frey-Baker, a mechanical engineer at Boston Dynamics, shared why their all-electric Atlas robot, unveiled in 2024, has a head, contrasting it with the previous hydraulic version, which didn’t need one.
Hydraulic Atlas didn’t have a head mainly because it was a research platform. It was doing a lot of acrobatic and athletic work. It really only needed to see directly in front of it so that it could tell what terrain it was on. …So Electri…
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