Incredible video of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/11/incredible-video-of-boston-dyn.html

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All I can think of is “smooooth”

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Why not just go the extra yard or meter or whtvr and put a chrome skull on the top with glowing eyes and a basso german voice chip. “I am a friend of Sarah Connor’s I heard that she is here. I would like to see her please.” I bet that robot grabs @$$ like nobody’s business! Eventually we’ll be ruled by Trump’s head in a jar bolted onto an industrial version of one of these things.

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It was edited out: “Judgement Day! Judgement Day! Judgement Day!”

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“COME BACK. I WON’T HURT YOU.” – Last thing you hear.

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I’d love to see the out=takes.

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If you go to the Atlas link (Boston Dynamics website), they have bunch of outtakes there.

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Oh yay, soon the U.S. will have even more efficiently murderous tech at its disposal as it steals other countries’s resources and blows citizens who get in the way into red mist.

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Did it fart after the back flip? I could of sworn I heard it fart. :slight_smile:

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These will kill us all.

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When saw the still frame with the robot over the log, I hoped for birling, not parkour.

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Man, given the current state of politics, I welcome our new robot overlords!
( I mean, could they really fuck it up any worse?)

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Well, the subtle message behind skynet’s takeover was that humans generally deserved it, so…yeah. I’m with you on this.

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That was what I thought of when I saw that thing hopping around: this is clearly, clearly meant for urban combat. The way it shifts it’s balance…this machine is meant for traversing cluttered homes and streets.

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You mean the one where some joker slapped a huge floppy rubber schlong on Atlas prior to having it gallumph about?

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a rival says they are still using hydraulics which is not top down management