Robots Welcome the New Year with Awesome Dance Moves

Some robot companies build machines that can walk around, as opposed to those that stay put and perform precise tasks in manufacturing.

Boston Dynamics creates walk-about robots with two legs and four — both of which are good.

We humans walk around all the time and think nothing of it. But machines must be programmed to readjust […]

Humanoid Robot Does Gymnastics

Boston Dynamics is a company that likes its robots to walk around, either on two legs or four.

Its four-leggers trot around sort of like headless critters that can carry things, and the two-leggers are now doing amazing athletic movements. The most recent flips and hops are quite impressive— check out the video of Atlas:

We may […]

New Improved Robot Does a Backflip

How fast is robotic technology moving along? To get an idea, watch a new video of the Atlas robot hop onto boxes and do a perfect backflip. Amazing.

For comparison, see the variety of robots falling over in the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge. The video is funny, but the improvement in the two years from then […]