Handle, the new Boston Dynamics/Google robot with wheels:
Handle is a mobile manipulation robot designed for logistics. Handle autonomously performs mixed SKU pallet building and depalletizing after initialization and localizing against the pallets. The on-board vision system on Handle tracks the marked pallets for navigation and finds individual boxes for grasping and placing. When Handle places a boxes onto a pallet, it uses force control to nestle each box up against its neighbors. The boxes used in the video weigh about 5 Kg (11 lbs), but the robot is designed to handle boxes up to (15 Kg) (33 lb). This version of Handle works with pallets that are 1.2 m deep and 1.7 m tall (48 inches deep and 68 inches tall).
My husband and I attempted to watch the “War of the World” series this spring, and these Boston Dynamic robotic dogs were the alien invaders in the series. The plot went to hell for us and we lost interest by the 4th episode. The killer robotic dogs though, ugh.2020 definitively not yet over.