#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

Robert Playter is CEO of Boston Dynamics, a legendary robotics
company that over 30 years has created some of the most elegant,
dextrous, and simply amazing robots ever built, including the
humanoid robot Atlas and the robot dog Spot. Please support this
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (07:18)
- Early days of Boston Dynamics (15:39) - Simplifying robots
(19:37) - Art and science of robotics (24:20) - Atlas humanoid
robot (41:14) - DARPA Robotics Challenge (55:34) - BigDog robot
(1:09:23) - Spot robot (1:30:48) - Stretch robot (1:33:36) - Handle
robot (1:39:10) - Robots in our homes (1:47:57) - Tesla Optimus
robot (1:56:39) - ChatGPT (1:59:43) - Boston Dynamics AI Institute
(2:01:14) - Fear of robots (2:11:36) - Running a company (2:17:13)
- Consciousness (2:24:46) - Advice for young people (2:26:42) -
Future of robots