ORATION SPEAKER BUREAU
  • Home
  • About
  • Speakers
    • Ricardo Semler
    • Marc Randolph
    • Susan David
    • Leonard Brody
    • David Mattin
    • Dag Kittlaus
    • James Clear
    • Alex Hunter
    • Susan Hayes Culleton
    • Vivek Wadhwa
    • Joel Cohen
    • Fred Kaplan
    • Deborah Acosta
    • Robert Safian
    • Dirk Ahlborn
    • Nancy Giordano
    • Jia Jiang
    • Lisen Stromberg
    • Fara Warner
    • Arko van Brakel
    • Conor Walsh
    • Mark Pollock
    • Matt Mason
    • Deborah Perry Piscione
    • Steve Wozniak
    • Sylvia Earle
    • Arianna Huffington
    • Diana Herniques
    • Rebecca Costa
    • Anders Indset
    • Kevin Slavin
    • Richard Branson
    • Molly Fletcher
    • Nigel Barlow
    • Anita Sengupta
    • Simon Sinek
    • Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
    • Gopal RajGuru
    • Cyril Kormos
    • Sadanandan Nambiar
    • Chris Baines
    • Usman Haque
    • John Volanthen
    • David Weinberger
    • Kent Larson
  • Contact
  • Blog

Latest News

Marc Raibert - The future of robotics

14/6/2018

0 Comments

 
Marc Raibert - Oration Speakers
Oration Speakers was delighted to be involved in bringing Keynote Speaker Mr Marc Raibert and his SpotMini, to Hannover this week. The Boston Dynamics Founder and his robotic dog were showcasing at CEBIT, Europe’s biggest festival for innovation and digitization.

There have been many videos of SpotMini, the agile four-legged robot on YouTube recently, it is one of many robots that Boston Dynamics is most famous for. Some of their other known robots are BigDog and WildCat among many more.

However, at CEBIT, this week, SpotMini was the star of the show. After a short presentation, the four-legged SpotMini came up the stairs, climbed nimbly on the stage and ran from right to left. It/she/him hopped on all fours, turned in a circle and parried. It stretched and bent, holding its head still while the rest of the robot's body moved up and down rapidly. When Raibert said "I'm thirsty" on stage, SpotMini gave his inventor a can from a table to drink with his gripping ‘arm’.

Marc informed the audience that the agile four-legged robot, will go on sale next year, with plans to manufacture 1,000 annually. At the moment, there will be only commercial uses for them. Examples he gave were: - Operating in nuclear-contaminated areas, such as Fukushima and Chernobyl doing clean-up work in areas that are too contaminated for humans. As part of a parcel  delivery service (they've been trail running it in Boston for the last while, by taking it to employees homes to see whether the SpotMini can adapt to the various access ways). Raibert also believes that Boston Dynamics will be able to assist with the elderly, by providing Robot-assisted geriatric care.
​
However, we shouldn't be worried, even though robots will be more of a reality for the future, but there is a long way to go before these robots get anywhere close to mastering perception and manipulation — sight and sound. 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Rachel 

    Archives

    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018

    Categories

    All
    Apps
    Artificial Intelligence
    Climate Change
    Content Marketing
    Creativity
    Developments
    Disruptive Innovation
    Economics & Business
    Environment
    Event Planning
    Feedback
    Financial Freedom
    Financial Future
    Future
    Future Of Cities
    Future Of Work
    Happiness
    Health
    Innovation
    Inspiration
    Latest Trends
    Leadership
    Mobile Addicts
    Mobile Phones
    Planning Events
    Pre-planning
    Robotics
    Speaker Bureau Help
    Sustainability
    Technology
    Trust
    Women In The Workplace
    Work
    Work Life Balance
    Work-life Balance

    RSS Feed

useful links

About
Services
​Speakers

Latest news
Privacy Policy

contact

Phone: +353 1 699 1419
Email: info@orationspeakers.com


Get social

© COPYRIGHT ORATION SPEAKERS 2018 .
  • Home
  • About
  • Speakers
    • Ricardo Semler
    • Marc Randolph
    • Susan David
    • Leonard Brody
    • David Mattin
    • Dag Kittlaus
    • James Clear
    • Alex Hunter
    • Susan Hayes Culleton
    • Vivek Wadhwa
    • Joel Cohen
    • Fred Kaplan
    • Deborah Acosta
    • Robert Safian
    • Dirk Ahlborn
    • Nancy Giordano
    • Jia Jiang
    • Lisen Stromberg
    • Fara Warner
    • Arko van Brakel
    • Conor Walsh
    • Mark Pollock
    • Matt Mason
    • Deborah Perry Piscione
    • Steve Wozniak
    • Sylvia Earle
    • Arianna Huffington
    • Diana Herniques
    • Rebecca Costa
    • Anders Indset
    • Kevin Slavin
    • Richard Branson
    • Molly Fletcher
    • Nigel Barlow
    • Anita Sengupta
    • Simon Sinek
    • Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
    • Gopal RajGuru
    • Cyril Kormos
    • Sadanandan Nambiar
    • Chris Baines
    • Usman Haque
    • John Volanthen
    • David Weinberger
    • Kent Larson
  • Contact
  • Blog