Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot doesn’t just know when it needs a break. It can swap its own battery and get back to work.
The production version of Atlas can autonomously return to a battery station, replace a depleted battery in under three minutes, and resume working without a person performing the swap, according to Boston Dynamics’ Atlas specifications. The feature is part of the company’s effort to turn Atlas from an impressive demonstration machine into an industrial robot capable of operating across long shifts.
The battery swap sounds like a small engineering detail. But it could help solve one of the least glamorous and most…
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