{"id":301004,"date":"2019-03-29T07:49:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T05:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=301004"},"modified":"2019-03-29T07:50:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T05:50:50","slug":"handle-robot-watch-it-pack-boxes-in-a-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/301004-handle-robot-watch-it-pack-boxes-in-a-warehouse.html","title":{"rendered":"Handle robot &#8211; Watch it pack boxes in a warehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Dynamics&#8217; robots have previously shown remarkable abilities such as <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/200732-boston-dynamics-shows-off-new-fast-jumping-robot.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>jumping<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/259767-boston-dynamics-robots-are-learning-to-run-outside-go-up-stairs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>running, and walking up stairs<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the company has developed a new ability that allows its Handle robot to pack boxes in a warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>According to Boston Dynamics, Handle easily controlled boxes which weighed about 5kg in a test, shown below.<\/p>\n<p>The robot can handle boxes up to 15kg, it added.<\/p>\n<p>While the abilities of its robots which Boston Dynamics previously showed off were impressive, the ability to pack boxes has significant practical benefits.<\/p>\n<p>View the Handle robot packing boxes below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5iV_hB08Uns\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/301000-amazon-to-hire-800-tech-engineers-in-texas-in-latest-expansion.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon to hire 800 tech engineers in Texas in latest expansion<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Dynamics has developed a new ability that allows its Handle robot to pack boxes in a warehouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":200744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9531,12027,55764],"class_list":["post-301004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-boston-dynamics","tag-robots","tag-warehouses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301012,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301004\/revisions\/301012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}