AI-Powered robot by Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute takes a key step towards general-purpose humanoids
Joint research collaboration enables the Atlas humanoid robot to achieve autonomous whole-body manipulation and locomotion behaviors using Large Behavior Models.
BOSTON (Aug. 20, 2025) – Today, Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a big step forward in robotics and artificial intelligence research: demonstrating a Large Behavior Model (LBM) powering the Atlas humanoid robot. In a video jointly released today by the two organizations, Atlas performs a long, continuous sequence of complex tasks that require combining object manipulation with locomotion. By adopting LBMs, new capabilities that previously would have been laboriously hand-programmed can now be added quickly and without writing a single new line of code.
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