On February 24, local time, Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics, said in an interview with the First Financial reporter during the Dassault Systemes 3DEXPERIENCE World Summit in Houston, USA, His intelligent robotics Institute, the AI Institute, has bought a robot from Yushu Technology, a Chinese robotics startup, to test its capabilities.
The founder of Boston Dynamics gives a speech
"Our lab bought Uki's humanoid robot, and we also bought several smaller robots, which are relatively cheap." "Even if we are competitors, we can buy it and see what it can do," Raibert told CBN.
Raibert said he was impressed by Uki's robot's capabilities. Last summer, Raibert attended the World Conference on Artificial Intelligence (WAIC) in Shanghai. "I learned that they had released 27 human-shaped robots, which was amazing!" "It was my first time in China," he told Yicai. "I talked to the CEO of Yushu and I thought they did a great job."
Boston Dynamics developed Spot, a four-legged robot, and Atlas, a humanoid robot. Raibert did not elaborate on the differences between Boston Dynamics' robots and Uki's, but said, "There are a lot of differences between them, and I think competition is inevitable." It will be very interesting to see how they develop."
Raibert specifically mentioned the wave of AI innovation in China triggered by DeepSeek. "I'm glad to see innovations like DeepSeek coming from China, but this is just the beginning, the whole field of artificial intelligence is still emerging, we are not at the end of the road, there will be more new ideas that change the development of technology in the future," he told the first financial reporter.
Humanoid robots are seen as an important step towards achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Raibert has been involved in robotics research for over 50 years and has worked at Carnegie Mellon University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He founded Boston Dynamics in 1992. Raibert believes that to achieve AGI, building hardware is as important as building software.
"When AGI will be achieved is a complex issue, and there is some hype involved." "There are many dimensions to intelligence," he said. "I think machines are a long way from being fully intelligent, and it also depends on ethics and regulation, so it's hard to predict when AGI will arrive."
He believes that before AGI arrives, AI and robotics researchers, regulators, and businesses still need to address the many issues arising from AI technology and find a balance. "For example, large language models are starting to produce a lot of hallucinations, and some companies are trying to fix that." "Raibert said.
When talking about the commercialization of humanoid robots, Raibert said that although the application potential of humanoid robots is huge, there are still many challenges to enter the "ordinary people's homes" : "There are three main aspects: first, the environment of the family is different, and there will be complex scenes; Secondly, there is the issue of safety, whether families can safely use it; And finally, accessibility, the current humanoid robots are still too expensive for families." 'he said.
Thirty years after founding Boston Dynamics, Raibert founded the AI Institute Lab in 2022, which focuses on basic science research leading to a new generation of intelligent robots. In his view, humanoid robots have been able to achieve many human capabilities, but in some subtle ways are still very different from human beings. "For example, the construction of small tissues such as muscle fibers, nerves and skin in robots is still very different from that of humans, and these are the problems that bother me now." 'he said.
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