From barely walking to gymnastics routines: 10 years of Boston Dynamics robots' terrifying progress is an eye-opening look at a robot-dominated future
Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot is the evolution of the company's Petman robot above.
Atlas was designed to illustrate how robots can achieve human-like mobility, and it's terrifyingly close.
This is what a decade of progress looks like.
In 2019, the parody group Corridor made a video that shows a fake "Bosstown Dynamics" robot fighting back against abusive human testers. While I feel bad for the robot, the video shows how thin the line between parody and reality might become.
The robot eventually starts to retaliate, and even holds its human testers hostage. The parody serves as an argument against giving robots too much mobility — or too much intelligence.
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