Boston Dynamics unveiled the GR3, a robotic hand with 13 degrees of freedom, nearly double its predecessor's 7. It's stronger, more dexterous, and designed to work with the Atlas robot. The company is moving toward a modular future where different manufacturers can mix advances in batteries, AI, and actuators.
Boston Dynamics has a brand new hand. So this is the big news of today, is this new hand that has this incredibly dexterous, mobile, strong, flexible— it has more degrees range of motion. It can do incredible things.
So what we're seeing today is the new generation of hands for Atlas. They're a perfect companion to where Atlas is today. It's been designed with Simplicity in mind, and it's—
by the way, why is everything Atlas? I named my kid Atlas 3 years ago, and everything ever since then has come out with the name Atlas.
Trajectory to mass manufacturing. For the kinematics of the hand, we have increased the number of degrees of freedom. GR2 had 7 degrees of freedom. GR3 now has 13. The size and strength of the new hand is a little bit larger than an average human hand, but it's also on average a bit So any forces that the AI to the environment gets applied very transparently.
Proprioception. So what happens when one robot manufacturer solves battery, another manufacturer solves onboard AI, another manufacturer solves back strength, another manufacturer solves hand strength, and these things become modular?
