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Andy Meek
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When it comes to attention-grabbing virality, the team at Boston Dynamics has possessed the Midas touch for a while now. The best example of this came late last year, with a video that practically broke the internet and showed not one Boston Dynamics robot, but three, all dancing in sync to the song Do You Love Me. Now, the Hyundai-owned robotics firm has again shown off its creations having mastered yet another skill -- a parkour routine.
In the new video, which you can check out below, a pair of Boston Dynamics Atlas robots jump gaps and run across beams while also executing backflips. All of it, by the way, a product of months of development work from the company. "A robot’s ability to complete a backflip may never prove useful in a commercial setting," the company explained in a summary of this project. It adds that Atlas is a research platform, not a commercial product. "But it doesn’t take a great deal of imagination or sector-specific knowledge to see why it would be helpful for Atlas to be able to perform the same range of movements and physical tasks as humans. If robots can eventually respond to their environments with the same level of dexterity as the average adult human, the range of potential applications will be practically limitless."
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