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Boston Dynamics' New Humanoid Robot Is Freaking People Out | The new machine stands up from lying down, using moves that are anything but human
The new machine stands up from lying down, using moves that are anything but human.
On Tuesday, Boston Dynamics retired its famous humanoid robot HD Atlas, after 11 years of running, flipping, dancing and parkour. The new Atlas video was enough to land the robot on the subreddit Oddly Terrifying, where user Jean_velvet joked, "I don't think anything bad can happen from creating machines with higher levels of motion than any living creature on the planet." In an interview with IEEE Spectrum, Boston Dynamics' CEO Robert Palter said, "our explicit intent was for it not to be human-like," and based on the video of Atlas standing, it seems like the company was wildly successful in that goal.
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