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Boston Dynamics, Inc., is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts , Boston Dynamics has been owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020, but having only completed the acquisition in June 2021.
Atlas is the name used for multiple robot models produced by American robotics company Boston Dynamics.. The first Atlas robot was a bipedal hydraulic humanoid robot primarily developed by Boston Dynamics with funding and oversight from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Marc Raibert (born December 22, 1949) is the Executive Director of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, a Hyundai Motor Group organization. [1] Raibert was the founder, former CEO, and now Chairman of Boston Dynamics, a robotics company known for creating BigDog, Atlas, Spot, and Handle.
BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped military robot platform that was created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with the Harvard University Concord Field Station. [1] It was funded by DARPA, but the project was shelved after the BigDog's gas engine was deemed too loud for combat.
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The initial contract for the Legged Squad Support System was awarded to Boston Dynamics on December 3, 2009. [4] The constant evolution of the BigDog led to the development of the LS3, also known as AlphaDog. The contract schedule called for an operational demonstration of two units with troops in 2012.
RHex on display at the D60 Symposium. The RHex design comes from a multidisciplinary and multi-university DARPA funded effort that applies mathematical techniques from dynamical systems theory to problems of animal locomotion, and, in turn, seeks inspiration from biology in advancing the state of the art of robotic systems. [2]
Buehler is also known for the co-development of Roomba and was a lead developer of BigDog at Boston Dynamics. In 2018, he joined Alex Vardakostas to develop a robot named "Creator" which whose function would be to flip burgers at various fast food restaurants such as Chick-fil-A. [2]