{"id":16235,"date":"2015-08-17T21:51:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T04:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/watch-a-boston-dynamics-humanoid-robot-wander-around-outside"},"modified":"2015-08-17T21:51:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T04:51:21","slug":"watch-a-boston-dynamics-humanoid-robot-wander-around-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/watch-a-boston-dynamics-humanoid-robot-wander-around-outside","title":{"rendered":"Watch a Boston Dynamics humanoid robot wander around outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NwrjAa1SgjQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>August 17, 2015 Boston Dynamics, which Google bought in 2013, has begun testing one of its humanoid robots \u2014 those that are designed to function like humans \u2014 out in the wild. Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston Dynamics, talked about the research and showed footage of the project during a talk on Aug. 3 at the 11th Fab Lab Conference and Symposium in Cambridge, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut in the world is just a totally different challenge than in the lab,\u201d Raibert said at the conference, which was organized by the Fab Foundation, a division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Bits and Atoms. \u201cYou can\u2019t predict what it\u2019s going to be like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boston Dynamics has tested its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R7ezXBEBE6U\">LS3<\/a> quadruped (four-legged) robot out in natural settings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LJZQ3n-iQYE\">in the past<\/a>. But humanoid robots are different \u2014 they can be much taller and have a higher center of gravity. Keeping them moving on paved asphalt is one thing, but maneuvering them through rugged terrain, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/06\/06\/koreas-team-kaist-wins-the-2015-darpa-robotics-challenge\/\">what Boston Dynamics\u2019 Atlas robots dealt with recently during the DARPA Robotics Challenge<\/a>, can be trickier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceofsingularity.com\/2015\/08\/17\/watch-a-boston-dynamics-humanoid-robot-wander-around-outside\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 17, 2015 Boston Dynamics, which Google bought in 2013, has begun testing one of its humanoid robots \u2014 those that are designed to function like humans \u2014 out in the wild. Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston Dynamics, talked about the research and showed footage of the project during a talk on Aug. 3 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}