Boston Dynamics AI Institute Quiz

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1. Who founded the Boston Dynamics AI Institute?
   • Marc Raibert
   • Brett Adcock
   • Pieter Abbeel
   • Rodney Brooks
2. Which organizations announced the initial investment of more than $400 million to launch the Boston Dynamics AI Institute?
   • Google and Toyota
   • Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics
   • SoftBank and NVIDIA
   • Amazon and Microsoft
3. What is the institute now called after being renamed?
   • DeepMind Robotics
   • OpenAI Robotics
   • The RAI Institute
   • The Atlas Lab
4. Which approach does RAI research use to develop dynamic robot behaviors?
   • Only hard-coded animation playback
   • Training language models to classify photographs
   • Copying movements from video games at runtime
   • Reinforcement learning, including experiments in simulation and on hardware
5. Which of these is a robot the institute has worked with?
   • Atlas the humanoid and Spot the robot dog
   • ASIMO and Pepper
   • Sophia and Ameca
   • Roomba and Jibo
6. How does the institute primarily position itself?
   • A consumer-electronics retailer
   • A long-horizon research lab, not a product company
   • A self-driving car manufacturer
   • A cloud-computing provider
7. Which research area is listed by the current Robotics and AI Institute?
   • Cryptocurrency trading
   • Speech translation only
   • Navigation in challenging environments
   • Consumer phone design
8. What is the focus of the RAI Institute–Boston Dynamics Atlas partnership announced in 2025?
   • Building a consumer smartphone
   • Training speech recognition on call-center recordings
   • Replacing Atlas with an autonomous car
   • Using reinforcement learning to develop dynamic mobile-manipulation behavior