<div dir="ltr">All,<div><br></div><div>Here's a very interesting interview of Marc Raibert [formerly founder and CEO of Boston Dynamic) who is the new founding director of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute in Kendall Sq.</div><div>Raibert is being interviewed by Lex Fridman of MIT quite recently --  Feb 16, 2024</div><div>although well before the announcement by BD of the new e-Atlas [my nickname not theirs]</div><div><br></div><div>The Boston Dynamics AI Institute has been funded by Hyundai to the tune of $400 M</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/5VnbBCm_ZyQ?si=WQE145Ydw5hCyYgJ">https://youtu.be/5VnbBCm_ZyQ?si=WQE145Ydw5hCyYgJ</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This might be a good video for  a LCTG meeting [though a bit long for one of our video meets]</div><div><br></div><div>more later</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/5VnbBCm_ZyQ?si=WQE145Ydw5hCyYgJ">https://youtu.be/5VnbBCm_ZyQ?si=WQE145Ydw5hCyYgJ</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 7:07 PM Ted Kochanski <<a href="mailto:tedpkphd@gmail.com">tedpkphd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">All,</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Boston Dynamics has a new version of Atlas [their humanoid-ish robot]</font></div><div><font size="4">The old one was powered by electricity -- but all of the mechanical functions were effected by hydraulics -- so all things tended to be fairly slow -- if smooth</font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">The new Atlas -- well it's quite different --- see the very recent </font><font size="4">Youtube from </font><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@BostonDynamics" style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:25.6px;display:inline;padding-right:0.1em;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis" target="_blank">Boston Dynamics</a></div><div id="m_2246009860280313386gmail-container" style="color:rgb(15,15,15);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:25.6px;background:transparent;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%"><span role="tooltip" style="outline:none"></span></div><br><font size="4"><a href="https://youtu.be/29ECwExc-_M?si=S6QALAP-gDvOOXXg" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/29ECwExc-_M?si=S6QALAP-gDvOOXXg</a></font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><img src="cid:ii_lv5uqt5q0" alt="image.png" width="316" height="562"><br></div><div><font size="4"><br></font><div><br></div><div><div id="m_2246009860280313386gmail-title" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent"><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;word-break:break-word;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:2rem;line-height:2.8rem;overflow:hidden;max-height:5.6rem;display:-webkit-box;text-overflow:ellipsis"><span>All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics</span></h1></div><div id="m_2246009860280313386gmail-top-row" style="padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;display:flex"><div id="m_2246009860280313386gmail-owner" style="margin:12px 12px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;display:flex"><span style="min-width:0px;display:flex"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@BostonDynamics" style="display:inline-block;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px" target="_blank"><span id="m_2246009860280313386gmail-avatar" width="40" style="display:inline-block;opacity:1;margin-right:12px;width:40px;height:40px;border-radius:50%;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden"><img id="m_2246009860280313386gmail-img" alt="" width="40" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_l_9S2MlIXZn2AUVHjznsbGST36FUd9vq_8bX8saLfT2g=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background: transparent; display: block;"></span></a><div id="m_2246009860280313386gmail-upload-info" style="margin:0px 24px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;overflow:hidden;display:flex;color:rgb(15,15,15);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px"><span id="m_2246009860280313386gmail-channel-name" style="display:flex;max-width:100%;font-size:1.6rem;line-height:2.2rem"><div id="m_2246009860280313386gmail-container" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%"><div id="m_2246009860280313386gmail-text-container" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent"><span id="m_2246009860280313386gmail-text" title="Boston Dynamics" dir="auto" style="text-overflow:ellipsis;overflow:hidden;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:br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Read more: </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;color:rgb(6,95,212)"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDFBbjVxMl9rUjBDWHhzRmU1TVlkbURHOUFDQXxBQ3Jtc0tscFFLWVVKQXNQZkl6T09TMmhoQkI1c2o5N1JzUE5wMDlSQVRvR2RDTF9Yc3VlVm5pZTVKcUM0OF9JVTJSaTRnUF9oMWRMNnZ4Q1AtdHpSdEdvczRpRThndzh3cVlWRHNqVGFFWnh4cnd2WUNXOTRrTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fbostondynamics.com%2Fblog%2Felectric-new-era-for-atlas%2F&v=29ECwExc-_M" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;display:inline;color:inherit" target="_blank">https://bostondynamics.com/blog/elect...</a></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,19,19)">
</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;color:rgb(6,95,212)"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/bostondynamics" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none;display:inline;color:inherit" target="_blank">#BostonDynamics</a></span></span></span></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy</div><div><br></div><div>More later</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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