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Toyota Joins With Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics on AI-Powered Robots
Research effort aims to develop, deploy multi-tasking robots at scale.
Carmakers have been at the vanguard of efforts to automate more assembly line processes to trim labor costs and bolster worker safety.
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Toyota Motor Corp.’s research unit and Hyundai Motor Co.’s Boston Dynamics are joining forces to speed up development of humanoid robots with artificial intelligence.
The partnership will pair Toyota Research Institute’s expertise in large behavior model learning for machines with Boston Dynamics’ humanoid Atlas robot, they said Wednesday. Boston-based teams from TRI and Boston Dynamics will conduct research on use cases for AI-trained robots in areas such as human-robot interaction, they said.