Boston Dynamics' latest video shows its Atlas humanoid robot has moves like Simone Biles

Boston Dynamics, the institution known for its robotic dogs, present has a humanoid robot susceptible of doing gymnastics.

The robotics institution antecedently has shown however its robot dogs tin spell down stairs and unfastened doors. Some police departments person begun utilizing the robot dogs, typically called Spot, to assistance patrol. And Atlas, which the institution dubbed "the world's astir dynamic humanoid," showed successful an earlier video however the robot tin jog and leap implicit a log.

In a caller video, Atlas present tin bash parkour—a athletics of moving done obstacles—jumping and moving on uneven platforms. Then, 2 humanoid robots bash synchronized movements including turning, spinning and 2 flips, mirroring each different moves.

Having the robots execute parkour sequences including moving on a balance beam, jumping and doing flips helps successful the improvement of a robot susceptible of aggregate tasks, "a go-anywhere, do-anything robot of the future," said Scott Kuindersma, person of Boston Dynamics' Atlas team, successful a blog station accompanying the caller videos.

"The enactment that we are doing present is truly conscionable instauration building," helium said. "We are gathering the halfway capabilities that we deliberation immoderate utile robot volition request and successful doing truthful we are truly conscionable defining the adjacent acceptable of challenges that we are going to beryllium moving connected implicit the adjacent 2 to 5 years."

Some facts the institution dished up connected Atlas: the robot is 5 feet tall, weighs 190 pounds, has an on-board battery, RGB cameras and extent sensors, arsenic good arsenic 3 built-in computers.

Boston Dynamics besides released a caller down the scenes video showing that the robots don't ever execute their skills successful the archetypal try. "It tin beryllium frustrating sometimes the robots clang a lot," said Atlas controls pb Benjamin Stephens, Atlas Controls Lead. "It's not the robot conscionable magically deciding to bash parkour. It's benignant of a choreographed regular overmuch similar a skateboard video oregon a parkour video wherever it's an jock who has practiced these moves dozens oregon hundreds of times adjacent to get to that precocious level that breathtaking capability. So we are benignant of doing the aforesaid happening present with Atlas, exploring however to propulsion it to its limits."

This scientists astatine Boston Dynamics had conscionable begun having the 2 robots bash parkour simultaneously 2 weeks agone and this was the archetypal clip they had filmed them together, said Ben Stephens, the Atlas controls lead. "Every behaviour present has a tiny accidental of failure. It's astir 90 seconds of continuous jumping, jogging, turning, vaulting, and flipping, truthful those probabilities adhd up."

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