Boston Dynamics' updated Handle Robot | beat You at warehouse

Boston Dynamics' updated Handle Robot | beat You at warehouse:

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Boston Dynamics — producers of everyone’s favorite robots that can run, backflip, and generally unnerve the human population — is back with its latest bot: a “reimagined” version of its Handle robot from 2017. And this time, it’s really, really good at stacking boxes.

The original Handle was designed largely as an experiment that applied Boston Dynamics’ robot know-how (typically used for two-footed or four-footed bots) to one with wheels. The new version looks far more polished, though, applying the original into an actually useful machine that can automatically load and unload pallets of products in a warehouse, as demonstrated in the video. It’s easy to see the applications of Handle in automating warehouse work (like say, Amazon’s fulfillment centers), with fleets of robots rolling around and grabbing boxes to build into a perfect, giant stack.

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On a technical side, Boston Dynamics says that Handle can life up to 13.60 KG boxes (although the video used roughly 5.40 KG boxes), and can stack pallets up to 4 feet deep and up to 5.5 feet tall. Onboard vision systems help Handle find boxes to grab and track which pallets it’s supposed to be taking them to and from. Add that all together and it means that Handle could probably crush you at Giant Jenga.

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