Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Team Up on Robots
6 min read Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. A new partnership with Toyota Research should bring new capabilities to Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot. Photo Collage: Randi Klett/IEEE Spectrum Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose robot may make this partnership sound like