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The video shows two robots moving cardboard boxes from a pallet onto a conveyor belt. Background: Boston Dynamics’ videos have ranged from the unsettling to the silly, with robots completing tasks as ...

Boston Dynamics has revealed its latest robot, Stretch, designed for far less glamorous purposes than its other creations. Where Spot and Atlas grabbed headlines with backflips and dancing, Stretch is ...

New video from Boston Dynamics, the Waltham, Massachusetts-based robotics company, shows a pair of birdlike robots stacking cardboard boxes in a warehouse, gliding about on wheels as they lift, move ...

Press brake automation pushes robotics technology. Operating a brake requires some finesse; it isn’t a simple pick-and-place ...

Stacking an object on top of another object is a straightforward task for most people. But even the most complex robots struggle to handle more than one such task at a time. Stacking requires a range ...

After wowing us with humanoid and animal-like robots that run, jump and perform acrobatic stunts, Boston Dynamics seems to be getting down to business. New video from the Waltham, Massachusetts-based ...