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#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics
Lex Fridman Podcast
The History of a Handle
The first version of the logistics robot we built was a balancing robot. And that's called a handle, and there's that thing was epic. The reason why this robot sort of looks epic, some people said it looked like an ostrich,. It has legs, so it can extend its legs. So it's wheels on legs, they had a tail and had this arm, and they're all moving simultaneously. We decided it was too slow and couldn't pick boxes fast enough, basically.
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