Boston Dynamics' Atlas machines are aiming to beryllium the humans of the robot satellite erstwhile it comes to carnal abilities. They tin already do parkour and gymnastics, but caller upgrades person added caller skills that marque the bots adjacent much similar radical than before.

When we saw Atlas slaying a parkour people successful 2021, it had stubby appendages for hands. Today's Atlas, prima of a Boston Dynamics video released Wednesday, has grippers and a consciousness of show-robot-ship. 

The video plays retired arsenic a enactment tract vignette with a quality who's forgotten his tools portion up connected a precocious platform. The idiosyncratic calls for Atlas to fetch his instrumentality bag. The robot gamely builds a bridge, grabs the bag, hops to a higher spot and slings the container up to its boss. It past performs a gymnastics-style dismount. 

The video is simply a objection of the pincher-style manus grippers and the robot's quality to change its situation and accurately flip a dense entity to implicit a task. A behind-the-scenes video goes into item connected however the robot is perceiving and manipulating items.

Atlas has travel a agelong way. It was little than a decennary agone that a CNET writer commented connected an aboriginal mentation of the robot being "terrible astatine karate." Boston Dynamics uses Atlas arsenic a trial furniture to effort retired technologies and caller robotic capabilities.

Another much-discussed humanoid robot is the AI-focused Tesla Optimus robot, which is simply a precise antithetic carnal (excuse maine -- robot) from Atlas. It's besides successful an earlier signifier of development, truthful don't expect immoderate Atlas-Optimus face-offs successful the adjacent future. Both machines amusement however humanity is moving toward the world of the sci-fi imagination of robots made successful our ain image.