Boston Dynamics CEO says his humanoid robots will need to learn a new task in 48 hours before deployment

""We need to be able to bring a new task to bear in a day or two," Playter said. "And that's because, I think in a factory, there's literally hundreds of tasks and the tasks evolve.""

""If you're going to have a robot that's actually useful in the factory, it's got to do a hundred different tasks, not just one or two," he said."

""It's really AI that's going to enable that," he said. "We also have to make that unprecedented reliability, 99.9% reliable. The AI is not quite there yet, but it's very promising.""

Hyundai plans to deploy Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robots at its Ellabell, Georgia automotive factory by 2028. Atlas is a six-foot, 200-pound bipedal robot with a face inspired by Pixar's lamp and is designed to learn industrial tasks quickly and adapt to existing factory layouts using AI. The program requires the robot to acquire new tasks in a day or two, handle hundreds of evolving tasks, and reach unprecedented operational reliability of about 99.9%. A partnership with Google DeepMind targets advances in learning, reasoning, and future human-robot interaction. Initial deployments will focus on simpler tasks such as parts sequencing.

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