Robert Playter
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1,075 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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We started off the video with Atlas kind of looking around for where the bag of tools was, because the guy up on the scaffolding says, send me some tools.
And Atlas has to kind of look around and see where they are.
And there's a little personality there that is fun, it's entertaining, it makes our jobs interesting, and I think in the long run can enhance interaction between humans and robots in a way that isn't available to machines that don't move that way.
I think it's going to be really important.
And it's a thing we're beginning to pay attention to.
We really want to start... A differentiator for the company has always been, we really want the robot to work.
We want it to be useful.
And
making it work at first meant the legged locomotion really works, it can really get around and it doesn't fall down.
And but beyond that, now it needs to be a useful tool.
And our customers are, for example, factory owners, people who are running a process manufacturing facility, and the robot needs to be able to get through this complex facility in a reliable way, you know, taking taking measurements.
We need, for people who are operating those robots, to understand what the robots are doing.
If the robot needs help or is in trouble or something, it needs to be able to communicate.
And a physical indication of some sort, so that a person looks at the robot and goes, oh, I know what that robot's doing.
That robot's going to go take measurements of my vacuum pump with its thermal camera.
you want to be able to indicate that.
Or even just the robot's about to turn in front of you and maybe indicate that it's going to turn, and so you sort of see and can anticipate its motion.
So this kind of communication is going to become more and more important.
It wasn't sort of our starting point, but now the robots are really out in the world, and we have about 1,000 of them out with customers right now.
this layer of physical indication, I think is going to become more and more important.
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