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#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Challenges of Manipulation
Atlas could walk on the sand. We might have to spend a little bit of time to sort of make that work. It's a level of complexity that I think goes above foot ground contact when you really start doing dexterous manipulation. So there's challenges ahead still. And we did this great video of the robot walking in the sand, walking into the ocean up to, I don't know, it's belly or something like that. and then turning around and walking out all while playing some cool beach music. Yeah. Great show.
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