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Robert Playter

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

I guess we did a little bit of a, we did a little skit around Christmas where we had two spots holding up another spot that was trying to put, you know, a bow on a tree.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

So I guess we're doing that in a small way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

It probably can't curl as much as we can yet.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

But a metric that I think is interesting is,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

is another way of looking at that strength is the box jump.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

So how high of a box can you jump onto?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And Atlas, I don't know the exact height.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

It was probably a meter high or something like that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

It was a pretty tall jump that Atlas was able to manage when we last tried to do this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And I have video of my chief technical officer

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

doing the same jump.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And he really struggled.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

Oh, the human.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

The human, getting all the way on top of this box.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

But then Atlas was able to do it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

We're now thinking about the next generation of Atlas.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And we're probably going to be in the realm of a person can't do it with the next generation.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

The robots, the actuators are going to get stronger, where it really is the case that at least some of these joints, some of these motions will be stronger.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

Oh yeah, and there's lots of videos of it trying and failing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

We don't always release those videos, but they're a lot of fun to look at.