Sunday, October 21, 2018

Watch Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot do parkour


If previous videos of Atlas created you uneasy, a replacement clip of the amped-up humanoid robot is unlikely to calm your nerves. It shows that boston Dynamics’ poweredbot has moved on the far side jogging and playing back flips and is currently doing parkour, the obstacle course fitness programme developed by U. S. Army Special Forces troopers.

In the 29-second video, announce Thursday on the company’s YouTube channel, Atlas leaps over a log and graciously zigzags its far a series of vertical obstacles activityconcerning sixteen inches high.

There’s nothing violent or overtly threatening concerning the demonstration. however people who’ve seen it appear convinced that Atlas’ exceptional gracefulness is cause for alarm.


“Notice the humans aren't any longer gift within the video. The robots in all probability murdered all of them,” one commenter quipped. “Please stop creating Terminators,” aforementioned another.

Why would an unarmed robot that stands less than 5 feet tall create US fearful? The commenter’s relevance "The exterminator," the blockbuster 1984 sci-fi horror movie, might hold a clue.

“We’re a little bit primed by dystopian narratives in fantasy and popular culture to fear an uprising of automaton robots,” told Kate Darling, a research specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media work in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an professional on human-robot interactions.

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