Boston Dynamics Teams Up with TRI to Bring AI Smarts to Atlas Humanoid Robot

Boston Dynamics Teams Up with TRI to Bring AI Smarts to Atlas Humanoid Robot

Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) have announced a groundbreaking collaboration to infuse AI-based robotic intelligence into the Atlas humanoid robot. The partnership will utilize TRI’s expertise in large behavior models (LBMs), similar to the large language models (LLMs) used in platforms like ChatGPT. TechCrunch recently visited TRI’s Bay Area campus to explore its advances in robot learning. At last year’s Disrupt conference, TRI’s head, Gill Pratt, demonstrated how the institute achieved 90% accuracy in teaching robots to perform tasks like flipping pancakes through overnight training. Pratt explained the significant shift in machine learning. "Previously, machine learning required millions of training cases, which is impractical for physical tasks due to wear and tear on machines. Now, we need just dozens of diverse cases for effective training," Pratt noted. This breakthrough has drastically reduced the amount of training necessary for robots to perform…