the next robot is spot mini which is the
first robot that we Boston dynamics are
commercializing then we have a spot mini
here and been the swilling is operating
it it’s using its sensors to see the
terrain and it’s using onboard computers
you may not know it but spot Minnie was
greeting you just there so I’m going to
give a demo in a couple of minutes but
before that I’m going to tell you a
little bit more about the robot it’s
also light enough it weighs about 27
kilos 60 pounds it’s light enough so
that a human can be near it and at least
if you’re you know many humans are not
afraid to be near it because it’s not
it’s not big like our previous robots it
has cameras on it which I’ll show you in
a couple of minutes and it’s designed as
a platform so here’s some video of spot
mini operating there’s the old spot
standing up and spot Minnie can walk
through it
earlier we were on the show floor and
someone got in the way of it by standing
like this and spot Minnie went through
its legs and this isn’t a real home and
those aren’t real people those are
engineers this is a mock-up of a home
that we use to do testing of the robot
to see show that it can handle different
kinds of stairways and fit in tight
spaces a thing we’ve learned is that
making a robot behave in a very confined
space is much harder than making it work
out in the woods because in the woods
there’s usually a lot of room it doesn’t
matter exactly where you go here we’re
showing that the robot can look for
footholds and make a planning operation
where it adjusts how the body moves and
how the feet move to adjust to the
environment same here this is not
pre-planned someone’s just telling it to
go forward and the robot is seeing the
obstacles and avoiding them there’s a
dynamic obstacle and when you put all
the reflexes controls and perception
together you can get a robot that works
now this is an ordinary chicken but it
does remarkable things it can keep its
head stabilized while it body moves and
we gave spot mini the ability to
stabilize its hand when its body moves
and it’s pretty much what people do I
can hold my hand here and move my body
all around it and that means that the
control can think about what the hands
doing and all the rest of the
coordination happens automatically
here’s another demonstration where the
software there’s no human involved here
it’s using a camera in the hand to find
the door handle it’s been told to go
through the door and it’s using
coordination between the hand the arm
and the body in order to negotiate and
in this case it’s a good Samaritan
letting the other robot get through the
door now we’re not being mean to the
robot the robot has no feelings it’s not
angry at us when we do this and in fact
we’re like proud parents showing that
the robot can succeed even though it
keeps trying and we keep giving it a
very hard time but but we believe that
testing like this is the key to making
robots that are going to work in the
real world and that are going to work
well when they’re connected to
higher-level AI processes and you can
imagine applications like the one I’ve
mentioned security delivery construction
we’re already doing testing in several
of those areas with potential customers
and this robot will be available
starting next year we’ve built ten by
hand we’re building a hundred with
manufacturers at the end of this year
and in the middle of 2019
we’re going to be begin production at
the rate of about a thousand a year this
is like like a magic act where it’s
three can Monty and the robot has a
sensor in its hand and it’s going to
pick up the can and move it to another
space and we’re externally coordinating
the robots
and here’s a case where we have four
robots and really it’s up to all of you
to think of the application where you
could get a basic spot mini and either
work with us or with others to build
hardware and software that runs on it
that solves your application I’m feeling
a little thirsty spot can you get me a
soda so spot has a camera in its hand
bin drives it so it’s close to the thing
but then it searches with that camera
and grabs it in this case Ben’s driving
it but it could have it automated thank
you spot finally I told you before that
spot is a dynamic robot and that means
it has some gates where it can put
energy into kinetic energy and elastic
energy so can you do a little trotting
but I believe as these things mature
this will be the future over the horizon
thinking of how to design and build
complex systems like our robots using
this approach we started with a humanoid
on the right that weighed about 375
pounds I don’t know what that is in
kilograms it must be 170 kilos or
hundred and sixty kilos and we’ve been
able to shrink it down and both that
Atlas robot and I weigh about 165 pounds
I think that robots got a few pounds on
me but we’re we’re about that and that
makes it much more useful design so here
is the Atlas robot out in the world
doing a few things we always try and
test it in a realistic environment here
it’s walking it’s using its visual
sensor to determine the stairway very
much like spot mini does in this case
there’s also a laser rangefinder where
spot mini uses all cameras here we’re
taking advantage of the fact that the
arms aren’t stable on a base but they’re
moving they’re attached to a mobile base
so the upper body and the
and the arms can all work together to do
this manipulation task if you were to do
this with a traditional robot you’d need
a giant robot that weighed probably
1,500 pounds maybe 700 or 800 kilos to
do the same task and here we’re starting
to work on getting the robot to work at
speeds that are about like human speeds
not a very friendly working situation
yet but where we’re working on that and
just as I said before we love to test
the robot here the robots been told to
pick up this box it’s using a visual
system in this case it’s using the QR
codes in order to be able to see where
the box is it picks it up and then our
guy is being the proud parent and
showing off the capability it’s not
being angry now I happen to think that
dynamic behavior is really an enabler
for robots and so we’ve been working on
making the robot travel faster using
dynamics incorporating the feedback and
the energetics the understanding of the
energetics as I described before and
we’ve been using that to do some new
things as well this is on youtube so I’m
sure many of you have seen this before
we’re working on getting a version of
this that we can take the shows but
we’re not quite there yet thank you now
now a lot of people look at our robots
and somehow get psychologically
connected to them and ask us about what
emotions the robots have and what are
they feeling are they angry are they
upset and if you look at our YouTube
site you’ll see lots of people
commenting that the robots are going to
get back at us and all that well the
truth is we don’t give our robots any
emotions ourselves but fortunately the
YouTube community has taken up that job
and so I just have two videos to show
not made by us it’s our visuals but
their soundtrack and if the audio people
can turn up the sound alone I love
box midnight box this robots really in
love with his work I love you box
goodnight box box what the day but this
guy isn’t so happy anyway you get the
idea if you look at on YouTube there’s a
bunch of others thank you all for
listening Ben and I’ll hang around for a
while if you want to come up after and play with the robots
first robot that we Boston dynamics are
commercializing then we have a spot mini
here and been the swilling is operating
it it’s using its sensors to see the
terrain and it’s using onboard computers
you may not know it but spot Minnie was
greeting you just there so I’m going to
give a demo in a couple of minutes but
before that I’m going to tell you a
little bit more about the robot it’s
also light enough it weighs about 27
kilos 60 pounds it’s light enough so
that a human can be near it and at least
if you’re you know many humans are not
afraid to be near it because it’s not
it’s not big like our previous robots it
has cameras on it which I’ll show you in
a couple of minutes and it’s designed as
a platform so here’s some video of spot
mini operating there’s the old spot
standing up and spot Minnie can walk
through it
earlier we were on the show floor and
someone got in the way of it by standing
like this and spot Minnie went through
its legs and this isn’t a real home and
those aren’t real people those are
engineers this is a mock-up of a home
that we use to do testing of the robot
to see show that it can handle different
kinds of stairways and fit in tight
spaces a thing we’ve learned is that
making a robot behave in a very confined
space is much harder than making it work
out in the woods because in the woods
there’s usually a lot of room it doesn’t
matter exactly where you go here we’re
showing that the robot can look for
footholds and make a planning operation
where it adjusts how the body moves and
how the feet move to adjust to the
environment same here this is not
pre-planned someone’s just telling it to
go forward and the robot is seeing the
obstacles and avoiding them there’s a
dynamic obstacle and when you put all
the reflexes controls and perception
together you can get a robot that works
now this is an ordinary chicken but it
does remarkable things it can keep its
head stabilized while it body moves and
we gave spot mini the ability to
stabilize its hand when its body moves
and it’s pretty much what people do I
can hold my hand here and move my body
all around it and that means that the
control can think about what the hands
doing and all the rest of the
coordination happens automatically
here’s another demonstration where the
software there’s no human involved here
it’s using a camera in the hand to find
the door handle it’s been told to go
through the door and it’s using
coordination between the hand the arm
and the body in order to negotiate and
in this case it’s a good Samaritan
letting the other robot get through the
door now we’re not being mean to the
robot the robot has no feelings it’s not
angry at us when we do this and in fact
we’re like proud parents showing that
the robot can succeed even though it
keeps trying and we keep giving it a
very hard time but but we believe that
testing like this is the key to making
robots that are going to work in the
real world and that are going to work
well when they’re connected to
higher-level AI processes and you can
imagine applications like the one I’ve
mentioned security delivery construction
we’re already doing testing in several
of those areas with potential customers
and this robot will be available
starting next year we’ve built ten by
hand we’re building a hundred with
manufacturers at the end of this year
and in the middle of 2019
we’re going to be begin production at
the rate of about a thousand a year this
is like like a magic act where it’s
three can Monty and the robot has a
sensor in its hand and it’s going to
pick up the can and move it to another
space and we’re externally coordinating
the robots
and here’s a case where we have four
robots and really it’s up to all of you
to think of the application where you
could get a basic spot mini and either
work with us or with others to build
hardware and software that runs on it
that solves your application I’m feeling
a little thirsty spot can you get me a
soda so spot has a camera in its hand
bin drives it so it’s close to the thing
but then it searches with that camera
and grabs it in this case Ben’s driving
it but it could have it automated thank
you spot finally I told you before that
spot is a dynamic robot and that means
it has some gates where it can put
energy into kinetic energy and elastic
energy so can you do a little trotting
but I believe as these things mature
this will be the future over the horizon
thinking of how to design and build
complex systems like our robots using
this approach we started with a humanoid
on the right that weighed about 375
pounds I don’t know what that is in
kilograms it must be 170 kilos or
hundred and sixty kilos and we’ve been
able to shrink it down and both that
Atlas robot and I weigh about 165 pounds
I think that robots got a few pounds on
me but we’re we’re about that and that
makes it much more useful design so here
is the Atlas robot out in the world
doing a few things we always try and
test it in a realistic environment here
it’s walking it’s using its visual
sensor to determine the stairway very
much like spot mini does in this case
there’s also a laser rangefinder where
spot mini uses all cameras here we’re
taking advantage of the fact that the
arms aren’t stable on a base but they’re
moving they’re attached to a mobile base
so the upper body and the
and the arms can all work together to do
this manipulation task if you were to do
this with a traditional robot you’d need
a giant robot that weighed probably
1,500 pounds maybe 700 or 800 kilos to
do the same task and here we’re starting
to work on getting the robot to work at
speeds that are about like human speeds
not a very friendly working situation
yet but where we’re working on that and
just as I said before we love to test
the robot here the robots been told to
pick up this box it’s using a visual
system in this case it’s using the QR
codes in order to be able to see where
the box is it picks it up and then our
guy is being the proud parent and
showing off the capability it’s not
being angry now I happen to think that
dynamic behavior is really an enabler
for robots and so we’ve been working on
making the robot travel faster using
dynamics incorporating the feedback and
the energetics the understanding of the
energetics as I described before and
we’ve been using that to do some new
things as well this is on youtube so I’m
sure many of you have seen this before
we’re working on getting a version of
this that we can take the shows but
we’re not quite there yet thank you now
now a lot of people look at our robots
and somehow get psychologically
connected to them and ask us about what
emotions the robots have and what are
they feeling are they angry are they
upset and if you look at our YouTube
site you’ll see lots of people
commenting that the robots are going to
get back at us and all that well the
truth is we don’t give our robots any
emotions ourselves but fortunately the
YouTube community has taken up that job
and so I just have two videos to show
not made by us it’s our visuals but
their soundtrack and if the audio people
can turn up the sound alone I love
box midnight box this robots really in
love with his work I love you box
goodnight box box what the day but this
guy isn’t so happy anyway you get the
idea if you look at on YouTube there’s a
bunch of others thank you all for
listening Ben and I’ll hang around for a
while if you want to come up after and play with the robots
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