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Toyota Motor Corp’s research unit. And the dynamics of Boston by Hyundai Motor Co. join forces to accelerate the development of humanoid robots with artificial intelligence.
The Partnership Will Pair Toyota Research Institute’s Expertise in Large Behavior Model Learning for Machines With Boston Dynamics’ Humanoid Atlas Robot, They Said Oct. 16. Boston-Based Teams from Tri and Boston Dynamics Will Conduct Research on Use for ai-Trained Robots Domains such as human-robot interaction, they said.
Toyota said it had a breakthrough with AI in teaching robots to learn and Boston Dynamics, which was bought by Hyundai in 2020, was a commercial success with his robotic watchdog and a mobile mobile arm To rest warehouses. Their collaboration is a potential challenge for other intelligent bot programs such as the optimus robot presented last week by its rival Tesla Inc. A number of humanoid robot startups also attract attention – and billions of dollars in capital .
Cooperation between Toyota and Boston Dynamics will focus on basic research with a view to possible commercial use, but companies have refused to specify a calendar or disclose their budgets for the project.
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“This type of technology has a huge promise for the future,” said Gill Pratt, chief scientist of Toyota, in an interview. “The work we do in generative AI can be a huge complement to the type of work that Boston Dynamics has done.”
Pratt said that a goal was possibly to bring robots to the factory assembly lines and in houses for care for the elderly.
Motor manufacturers have been at the forefront of efforts to automate more mounting chain processes to reduce labor costs and strengthen workers’ safety. The automotive industry is second behind electronics manufacturers in the deployment of robots in factories worldwide, with approximately a quarter of new facilities in 2022, the latest data available, according to the International Federation of Robotics based in Frankfurt.
The dexterity of Boston Dynamics robots associated with Toyota’s behavioral know-how is a key differentiarator for other companies to build smart robots, said Aaron Saunders, Boston Dynamics technology director, told Bloomberg.
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“It will prepare the field to keep the promise that many people are currently doing to bring humanoid robots to the world on a large scale,” he said.
Saunders said that Boston Dynamics planned to deploy humanoid robots with closely targeted tasks in Hyundai factories “in the coming years” when she pursues research with Toyota on the longer-term objective of multi- AI compatible tasks.
Hyundai, which already has a pilot program with Boston Dynamics Technology in a KIA brand car factory in South Korea, bought an 80% stake in the company of Japan SoftBank Group Corp., which has kept the rest.
The generative AI is promising to allow robots to adopt new skills sets faster depending on the behavior learned. Like virtual assistance programs such as Chatgpt have evolved from large language models, large behavioral models are used to program robots.
The Toyota Research Institute is experimenting with large behavioral models to allow a robot to do several tasks. The objective is that a programmed robot beats the eggs to also be able to manage a number of other things, such as the folding of a shirt, said Russ Tedrake, MIT teacher and chief of research in sorting robotics.
“We are on the right track,” said Tedrake. “This is something on which we work very quickly, very aggressively, trying to show this new capacity.”