2025 years worker is a humanitarian robot factory
Late this year, Boston Dynamics intends to put its all -out Atlas Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of the robot, which has evolved from the Atlas Hydraulic model since 2013, has made its first public game last spring. But while the dog point such as a dog and warehouse is currently located on industrial sites, the Hyundai pilot is the first time ATLAS used in commercial production.
Boston Dynamics, which earned Hyundai for $ 1.1 billion in 2021, is interesting about how to use the robot, but the general idea is that it is designed to be stronger and more reliable than a human worker. “This robot can do things that are difficult for humans,” says Kerry Nilon, a spokesman for Boston Dynamics. “Like choosing very heavy objects and carrying things that transport to an awkward man.”
Atlas will have friends: It looks like 2025 has been limited to commercial research laboratories so far. Some of them have previously completed their first test robot steps to work at a fee, although the Robotics of AGAITY have been transferred to business customers last year in a name and shipped shipped.
Technical giants are also in the process: Both Apple and Meta are rumored to work on a human robot being consumed. A Goldman Sachs 2024 report estimates that humanitarian robots show a $ 38 billion market by 2035 – more than six times what the company predicted a year ago.
The basic promise of humanitarian robots is that they can move between several jobs just like their human peers. This is a fundamentally different approach from the traditional assembly line automation, which creates a complete environment for the specific tasks needed to produce. Jonathan Horst, the founder and chief executive of the robot in Robotics Agility, expects its robots to sit next to the process, not to disrupt the issue.
“A targeted automation solution will always have a higher performance and less cost,” says Horst. “It’s great if you have 24/7 operations for that special job you want to do.” But for things that do not need to run day and night, a flexible robot can be more productive.
Boston Dynamics offers it in a different way. The company, despite the factories previously designed as a safe place for automation, says that the Atlas was made with an eye to build a robot that can go anywhere else. “We live in the first human world, so we have to build a robot that reflects it,” says Nilon.
But there are challenges to get human robots to the market. Optimus TESLA has been strongly predicted since the company announced for the first time in 2021, but a showcase in October raised concerns that the robots displayed were human -controlled and raised questions about the performance of Optimus independently. In January, Musk said the company was set to build a “several thousand” robots in 2025-but in April, he said that investors could influence the rare metal export restrictions China was implemented in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
