When a humanoid isn't the best robot for the job

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When a humanoid isn't the best robot for the job
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Boston Dynamics is banking on Spot, a dog robot, and Stretch, a mobile warehouse arm.

Spot, a dog-shaped robot from Boston Dynamics , uses state-of-the-art camera technology and AI to protect suburban trains from vandalism and graffiti. Photo: Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Imagesthat can lift heavy boxes and handle dangerous tasks, but it's not clear yet if they're going to be the right answer.

"We want to bring automation, but we want to deploy it without our clients really changing their fixed infrastructure."were posted online of Atlas moving boxes, "people said to us, 'Hey, I want to use that robot for my logistics,'" Theermann says. Stretch "finds packages and places them on a conveyor belt at the speed of a refreshed human at 10 o'clock in the morning."the robot through your factory — you teach it the route that you want it to walk — and the robot creates a digital twin of that environment," Theermann says.

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