2019 Boston Dynamics Marc Raibert interview at TechCrunch April 19
<p>April 20, 2019, 2:52 PM Marc's plans for commercialization of Spot-Mini and Handle and planned roll out. </p>
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<p>Vision system on Handle... looks for particular boxes. Kinema Systems (Menlo Park)... extraordinary. Will (future) stick their vision system onto several our robots including Handle. Everybody at BDI wants to adopt Kinema to their project. </p>
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<p>Want 3rd parties to add stuff to Spot-Mini.</p>
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<p>shows testing of Spot Mini. torture life test.</p>
<p>shows them in a corral.... life testing;</p>
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<p>Atlas is R and D... no plans to commercialize.</p>
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<p>we have 3 bots.... Atlas, Spot, and Handle.</p>
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<p>Spot can add your own software and hardware.</p>
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<p>can teleoperate from plane and from LA to Boston....</p>
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<p>combo of high levels commands from user + autonomous low-level control from bot. </p>
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<p>tsting at Fujita Corp... where are they in progress.</p>
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<p>Lily Cohen comes out with #26 Spot Mini....</p>
<p>5 integrated cameras.... in body; </p>
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<p>chicken head mode many dof.</p>
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<p>on-board computers... has load cells in legs;;</p>
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<p>police application (eg hostage takers); oil rig inspection (with person off the rig); the "Android" of androids....</p>
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<p>road to production; feature freeze in software; we've been an R and D company; safety certif.; working with standards people.</p>
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<p>(Bob: see the other TC videos in AI/robotics at this session)</p>
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