Atlas just got a massive upgrade. Now, the robot can toss and grab things, in addition to excelling in parkour.
Boston Dynamics’ new video shows off its research robot’s exceptional, and slightly terrifying, parkour abilities. In the viral video, the robot, named Atlas, walks across a warehouse floor, picks up items, skips up stairs, jumps, tosses items, and even does a backflip.
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Atlas’s advanced robotic features and abilities, including its 28 hydraulic joints, 5.6 mph speed, real-time perception, and model-predictive control, have earned the robot viral status before. However, in those videos Atlas was missing something pretty vital to human function — hands.