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1:25Bill Whitaker:At Hyundai's sprawling auto plant, more than 1 ,000 robots work alongside almost 1 ,500 humans. This may look like the factory of the future, but we found the future of the future in the parts warehouse, getting ready for work. Meet Atlas, a 5 '9", 200-pound AI-powered humanoid. I just can't believe what my eyes are seeing. Steve Hartman, a veteran CBS News correspondent, and Lou Boop, a photographer, have spent the last eight years asking parents whose children were killed in school shootings for permission to take pictures of the empty rooms they left behind. Rooms that have become sanctuaries, a tangible link to a child they can feel but no longer hold.

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4:36Bill Whitaker:For decades, engineers have been trying to create robots that look and act human. Now, rapid advances in artificial intelligence are taking humanoids from the lab to the factory floor. As fears grow that AI will displace workers, a global race is underway to develop human-like robots able to do human jobs. Competitors include Tesla, startups backed by Amazon and Nvidia, and state-supported Chinese companies. Boston Dynamics is a front-runner. The Massachusetts company, valued at more than a billion dollars, is hard at work on a humanoid it calls Atlas. South Korean car maker Hyundai holds a 90 % stake in the robot maker.

5:23Bill Whitaker:As we first told you in January, we were invited to see the first real-world test of Atlas at Hyundai's new factory near Savannah, Georgia. There, we got a glimpse of a humanoid future that's coming faster than you might think.

5:42Bill Whitaker:Hyundai's sprawling auto plant is about as cutting edge as it gets. More than 1 ,000 robots work alongside almost 1 ,500 humans, hoisting, stamping, and welding in robotic unison. This may look like the factory of the future, but we found the future of the future in the parts warehouse, tucked away in the back corner, getting ready for work. Meet Atlas, a 5 '9", 200-pound, AI-powered humanoid created by Boston Dynamics. The rise of the robots is science fiction no more. I have to say, every time I see it, I just can't believe what my eyes are seeing. Is this the first time Atlas has been out of the lab?

6:30This is the first time Atlas has been out of the lab doing real work.

6:34Bill Whitaker:Zach Joukowsky heads Atlas Development. He has two mechanical engineering degrees from MIT and a mission to turn the robot into a productive worker on the factory floor. We watched as Atlas practiced sorting roof racks for the assembly line without human help. So he is working autonomously. Correct. You're down here to see how Atlas works in the field. Yep. And you'll be showing Atlas off to your bosses at Hyundai? Yeah. Do you feel like a proud papa? I feel like a nervous engineer. Tchaikovsky has been preparing for this moment for a year. We first met him and Atlas a month earlier at Boston Dynamics headquarters just outside the city, where he and his team were teaching Atlas skills needed to work at Hyundai.

7:32Bill Whitaker:And Atlas, with its AI brain, was gaining knowledge through experience. In other words, it seemed to be learning. You know how crazy that sounds? Yeah, a little bit. And I think a lot of our roboticists would have thought that was pretty crazy five, six years ago. When 60 Minutes last visited Boston Dynamics in 2021, Atlas was a bulky hydraulic robot that could run and jump. Back then, Atlas relied on algorithms written by engineers. When we dropped in again this past fall, we saw a new generation Atlas with a sleek all-electric body and an AI brain powered by NVIDIA's advanced microchips, making Atlas smart enough to pull off hard-to-believe feats autonomously.

8:24We saw Atlas skip and run with ease.

8:29Bill Whitaker:Do you ever stop thinking, gee whiz? I remain extremely excited about where we are in the history of robotics, but we see that there's so much more that we can do as well. Scott Kindersma was head of robotics research, a job he proudly wore on his sleeve. Do you even have on a robot shirt? Well, once I saw that this shirt existed, there was no way I wasn't buying it. He told us robots today have learned to master moves that until recently were considered a step too far for a machine. And a lot of this has to do with how we're going about programming these robots now, where it's more about teaching and demonstrations and machine learning than manual programming.

9:15Bill Whitaker:So this humanoid, this mechanical human, can actually learn? Yes, and we found that that's actually one of the most effective ways to program robots like that. Atlas learns in different ways. In supervised learning, machine learning scientist Kevin Bergman, wearing a virtual reality headset, takes direct control of the humanoid, guiding its hands and arms move by move through each task until Atlas gets it. And if that teleoperator can perform the task that we want the robot to do, and do it multiple times, that generates data that we can use to train the robot's AI models to then later do that task autonomously.

9:59Bill Whitaker:Kindersma used me to demonstrate another way Atlas learns. That very stylish suit that you're wearing is actually going to capture all of your body motion to train Atlas to try to mimic exactly your motions. And so you're about to become a 200-pound metal robot. The calibration process is now complete. He asked me to pick an exercise. They captured the way I work as well. I am here at the AI lab at Boston Dynamics. All of my movements, my walking, my arm gestures, are being picked up by these sensors. Then engineers put my data into their machine learning process. Atlas's body is different from mine, so they had to teach it to match my movements virtually.

10:45Bill Whitaker:more than 4 ,000 digital atlases trained for six hours in simulation. And they're all trying to do jumping jacks just like you. And as you can see, they're just starting to learn, so they're not very good at it. The simulation, he told us, added challenges for the avatars, like slippery floors, inclines, or stiff joints, and then homed in on what works best. And it can eventually get to a state where we have many copies of Atlas doing really good jumping jacks. They uploaded this new skill into the AI system that controls every Atlas robot. Once one is trained, they're all trained. So that's what you look like when you're exercising.

11:32Uh-huh.

11:33Bill Whitaker:And what I look like doing my job. I am here at the AI lab at Boston Dynamics. all of my movements, my walking, my arm gestures are being picked up by these sensors, this is mind-blowing. Through the same processes, Atlas was taught to crawl, do cartwheels. It didn't fare as well with the duck walk.

12:00Oh, that was fun. And then this happens. And then this happens. We love when things like this happen, actually, because it's often an opportunity to understand something we didn't know about the system.

12:13Bill Whitaker:What are some of the limitations you see now? I would say that most things that a person does in their daily lives, Atlas or other humanoids can't really do that yet. Like what? Well, just putting on clothes in the morning or pouring your cup of coffee and walking around the house with it. That's too difficult for Atlas? Yeah, I think there are no humanoids that do that nearly as well as a person would do that. But I think the thing that's really exciting now is we see a pathway to get there. A pathway provided by AI. What stands out in this atlas is its brain. NVIDIA chips, the ones that helped launch the AI revolution with ChatGPT, process the flood of collected data, moving this humanoid robot closer to something like common sense.

13:00So the analogy might be, if I was teaching a child how to do free throws in basketball, if I allow them to just explore and come up with their own solutions, sometimes they can come up with a solution that I didn't anticipate. And that's true for these systems as well.

13:14Bill Whitaker:Atlas can see its surroundings and is figuring out how the physical world works. So that someday you can put a robot like this in a factory and just explain to it what you would like it to do, and it has enough knowledge about how the world works that it has a good chance of doing it. There's a lot of excitement in the industry right now about the potential of building robots that are smart enough to really become general purpose. Robert Plater, then CEO of Boston Dynamics, spearheaded the company's humanoid development. He had been building toward this moment for more than 30 years. The cornerstone was this robotic dog, Spot, introduced about a decade ago.

13:58Bill Whitaker:Spots are trained in heat, cold, and varied terrain and roam the halls of Boston Dynamics. So we have some cameras, thermal sensors, acoustic sensors, an array of sensors on its back that lets it collect data about the health of a factory. Spots carry out quality control checks at Hyundai, making sure the cars have the right parts. They conduct security and industrial inspections at hundreds of sites around the world. What began with Spot has evolved into Atlas. So this robot is capable of superhuman motion, and so it's going to be able to exceed what we can do. So you are creating a robot that is meant to exceed the capabilities of humans.

14:49Why not, right?

14:50Bill Whitaker:We would like things that could be stronger than us or tolerate more heat than us or definitely go into a dangerous place where we shouldn't be going. So you really want superhuman capabilities. To a lot of people, that sounds scary. You don't foresee a world of Terminators. Absolutely not. I think if you saw how hard we have to work to get the robots to just do some of the straightforward tasks we want them to do, that would dispel that worry about sentience and rogue robots. We wondered if people might have more immediate concerns. We saw workers doing a job at the Hyundai plant that Atlas is being trained to perform.

15:34Bill Whitaker:I guarantee you there are going to be people who will say, I'm going to lose my job to a robot. Work does change. So the really repetitive, really back-breaking labor is going to end up being done by robots. But these robots are not so autonomous that they don't need to be managed. They need to be built. They need to be trained. They need to be serviced. Plater told us it could be several years before Atlas joins the Hyundai workforce full-time. Goldman Sachs predicts the market for humanoids will reach$38 billion within the decade. Boston Dynamics and other U.S. robot makers are fighting to come out on top.

16:19Bill Whitaker:But they're not the only ones in the ring. Chinese companies are proving to be formidable challengers. They are running to win. Are they outpacing us? The Chinese government has a mission to win the robotics race. Technically, I believe we remain in the lead. But there's a real threat there that simply through the scale of investment, we could fall behind. To stay ahead, Hyundai made that big investment in Boston Dynamics. Four robots. We were at the Georgia plant when Atlas engineer Zach Jachowski presented Atlas to Hung Soo Kim, Hyundai's head of global strategy. He came all the way from South Korea to check in on the brave new world the car maker is funding.

17:08Bill Whitaker:What do you think of the progress that they've made with Atlas? I think we are on track about the development at last. So far, it's very successful. It's a kind of start of a great journey. The destination? That humanoid future we mentioned at the start. Robots like us, working beside us, walking among us. It's enough to make your head spin. Since our story first aired, Boston Dynamics unveiled an upgrade, an atlas that's taller and stronger than the version we saw. The new atlas will begin training at Hyundai's Georgia factory this summer.

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20:10No easy task. They are, after all, portraits of a child who's no longer there.

20:19Up a flight of stairs in their Nashville home, Chad and Jada Scruggs took us to see their daughter Hallie's room. It remains as she left it one Monday morning three years ago. I don't think anything's changed. Hallie Scruggs loved Legos, Tennessee football, and hiding things in a toy safe from her three older brothers. The books she and her mom read together at night are still stacked by her bed. a school project with important milestones in her life, a reminder Hallie was just nine years old. First two, first soccer game. First Tennessee game. That was a milestone. Yeah. This is the first time they held her.

21:01I love that picture. I do wonder sometimes, like, what will we do with this room eventually? All these physical things are tangible ways of reminding me. Like, she was real. She was here. She lived with us. Yeah. In some ways, this room kind of holds the space for her. And so... And it still does, right? Yeah. Oopsies! Hallie was killed along with two classmates, Evelyn Dickhouse and William Kinney, in a shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville in 2023. What has grief been like for you? Felt like everything collapsed, everything. Internally. Pain that, I mean... And gosh, it's just hard to endure.

21:48And then, you know, you have to relearn how to do everything, like how to eat, how to sleep. And you just have a new relationship with pain and sadness and anger. There's been joy too, but the sadness has been, was just, I mean, overwhelming. Chad is a pastor at the church that's part of the Covenant School. He was drawn to Hallie's room the day she was killed. I went into her room to lay on her bed to smell. I knew that would go. And I wanted... You knew the smell would disappear. Oh, yeah.

22:27Bill Whitaker:Yeah, yeah. And her blankie was there and everything was there. And you could smell her that night? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, that was true probably for a week or two after. So you're trying to get her back. That's not possible. But you don't believe that. And so anything that draws that possibility closer, I wanted to be there for that. So, yeah, I went in, just laid on her bed and cried by myself. Has your relationship to the room changed over time? Maybe it's not as frequent that I go up there, but the feelings haven't changed when I go in the room. You know, it kind of captures all the feelings of sadness and joy just because it's a capsule of time.

23:15I think initially that room was, for me, an indication of like presence. And now it feels more of an indication of absence, you know. It feels more like a relic now. Like a relic. A relic. Yeah. Some 2 ,000 miles away in Santa Clarita, California, another room, another child killed.

23:44This is Gracie Muehlberger. She was 15. She adored her brothers and her van sneakers. She was killed six and a half years ago in the Saugus High School shooting. Cindy and Brian Muehlberger are her parents. Do you remember the first time you went into Gracie's room after? Right when we got home from the hospital. You went right to her room? Right to her room. And that's where I spent like the next week or two. Yeah. I slept in her bed. I just, it's the closest I could feel to her, so. Did that feeling, though, of the room providing comfort, did that last for a long time? Yes. Oh, yeah. Always.