Today, NVIDIA Corp. announced the beta release of Newton, an open-source, GPU-accelerated physics engine managed by the Linux Foundation. Built on the NVIDIA Warp and OpenUSD frameworks, and ...

Named "Spot," the quadruped robot from developers Boston Dynamics has been on the cutting edge of canine-like robots for several years now. Its newest trick is a triple backflip. While there isn't a ...

At Boston Dynamics, the work environment is anything but boring. People here come from all walks of life—engineers, programmers, artists—and everyone brings their own take. You’ll find a place where ...

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Boston Dynamics probably has the most show-offy robots on the planet right now, and the company's latest video shows that its robodog, Spot, is no exception. Spoiler alert: he nails a septuple back ...

Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot has been impressing us for years. And the dog-like contraption has just done it again. In a video (top) released by the Massachussetts-based team this week, Spot is shown ...

Thanks to the many ongoing projects in this field, we're used by now to seeing humanoid robots performing all sorts of impressive, almost human-like tasks and movements. But it's not until you see one ...

To be useful, humanoid robots will need to be competent at many tasks, according to Boston Dynamics. They must be able to manipulate a diverse range of objects, from small, delicate objects to large, ...

Marc Raibert has spent his entire career thinking up ways to build robots that are more and more capable. Now the 75-year-old is running a private research lab in Kendall Square, working on some of ...

WTF?! Domino's Pizza wants to solve a very specific problem: getting pizza to customers on a beach and then protecting it from seagulls. The somewhat unorthodox solution is to use Boston Dynamics' ...

Depending on who you ask, Boston Dynamics is either a pioneering robotics company helping to usher in a technological revolution or a harbinger of the coming robot apocalypse. Over the last decade, ...