Boston Dynamics: What We Need In The Emerging Golden Age Of Robotics

Forbes August 26, 2024
John Koetsier

While two-legged humanoid robots are super-popular right now from manufacturers like Apptronik, Amazon (in partnership with Agility Robotics), Sanctuary AI, Figure.ai, Tesla, and Fourier Intelligence, it’s likely that robot innovation will diversify rather than consolidate over the next few years as we enter an emerging golden age of robotics. At least, that’s my key takeaway from a chat with some of the top scientists and engineers at Boston Dynamics, which pioneered humanoid robots with Atlas and is continuing to build multiple robots with different form factors.

Investment in robotics dropped last year, but the global robotics market is forecasted to grow almost 15% annually until 2032.

Increasingly robots will run like dogs, fly like birds, wriggle like snakes, swim like...

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