Handle, Boston Dynamics' robot with a dynamic balancing system and a mix of legs and wheels.
Handle è il nuovo robot della Boston Dynamics, società di proprietà Google, che si tiene in equilibrio da solo.
This new experimental "biped" combines legs and wheels in place of feet.
The robot "walks" on two wheels, stands 1.8 meters tall, and is both agile and sturdy. It's able to jump almost a meter and a half high.
Footage from one of the Handle robot's tests
In the footage posted on YouTube, you can see Handle going down stairs, and clearing obstacles by jumping and landing in perfect balance.
The footage does justice to the huge interest this robot prototype has drawn, both on social media and in the press at large.
Boston Dynamics' recent corporate history
Just a year ago, Alphabet tried to sell Boston Dynamics, with Toyota and Amazon among the potential buyers.
To this day, however, the company remains owned by Google.
Boston Dynamics builds advanced robots with remarkable capabilities: mobility, agility, dexterity and speed.
It uses sensor-based computational control to drive the functions of complex mechanisms.
Its development teams carry projects from the initial operating concept through to prototype testing, and finally into the production process.
Many organizations turn to Boston Dynamics for advice and support in creating some of the most advanced robots around today.
Boston Dynamics is wholly owned by Google, Inc. It started as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Marc Raibert, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and his colleagues developed the first animal-like robots capable of running.
The company was founded in 1992.
Boston Dynamics has an extraordinary technical team of engineers and scientists. The team perfectly blends advanced analytical thinking with "boots in the mud" practicality.