The world’s most advanced humanoid robot takes parkour in its stride
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While Atlas looks like, and is, the world’s most advanced humanoid robot alot of its behaviours and movements are still pre-programmed. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. It can run, balance like...
World’s most advanced humanoid robot, ATLAS, goes for a run in the park
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the field of robotics continues to advance we’re beginning to witness the first signs of the emergence of robots that, outside of their traditional factory setting, could be truly useful. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
The world’s most advanced robot just learnt Parkour
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans evolve at a biological rate, technology evolves at an exponential rate, and ATLAS is improving all the time. The majority of people like to assume that one day we will live, work and eat alongside robots in perfect harmony in the happy knowledge...
Nimble Atlas robot ups its game again to conquer tricky terrain
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We take many of the things we do as humans for granted, such as balancing, but our bodies make thousands of adjustments every second just standing still and getting a robot to mimic what comes naturally to us isn’t as easy as you think ...
Boston Dynamic’s humanoid Atlas robot has learnt to balance
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Balancing is a difficult skill and now one robot has mastered it. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot – the world’s most advanced humanoid robot, which previously demonstrated its ability to walk across rough terrain and take all kinds of abuse from its creators has now...
Humanoid ATLAS robot crams millions of years of evolution into two years
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Robotisists just crammed hundreds of millions of years of natural evolution into just two years. Boston Dynamics has unveiled a hugely upgraded version of its ATLAS humanoid that is smaller, lighter, and more agile. Furthermore it’s been amazing to see the advancements the team has made...
