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Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Gets New Hands
Original: New Hands for Atlas Robot
Boston Dynamics has unveiled a new hand design for its Atlas humanoid robot, giving the machine more dexterous grasping capabilities. The electric version of Atlas, reintroduced in 2024, has so far focused on whole-body mobility, so adding functional hands marks a step toward practical manipulation tasks in real work environments. Robotics watchers see it as a signal of the company's push toward commercial, industrial deployment of humanoids.
Why now: Atlas is one of the most closely followed humanoid robots, and any hardware upgrade stirs debate about progress toward robots doing real work.
Rank over time, top of the chart is #1. 3 snapshots from 8 h ago to 6 h ago.
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- New Hands for Atlas Robot · Interesting Engineering
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