After virtually 10 years of often-jaw-dropping achievements, Boston Dynamics has stated farewell to Atlas, the world’s most dynamic – and groundbreaking – humanoid robotic.
New Atlas has adopted Atlas’ progress intently over time. From 2015, when an upgraded, tether-free Atlas was the centerpiece of that 12 months’s Protection Superior Analysis Tasks Company (DARPA) Robotics Problem, to a ability development that noticed the robotic go from balancing and strolling on uneven terrain to performing high-energy gymnastics and parkour strikes.
As a tribute to the robotic that pushed the boundaries of the humanoid type, Boston Dynamics has put collectively a compilation video of Atlas’ thrills (and spills) and included some behind-the-scenes footage.
Farewell to HD Atlas
For Boston Dynamics, the Atlas venture was greater than a way of exhibiting off with flashy performances. Educating Atlas parkour, for instance, was a means of experimenting with and testing how the robotic used its notion to foretell and navigate objects.
Whenever you take a look at the meticulously designed and manufactured Atlas of right now – standing 4 ft 9 in/1.5 m and weighing 196 lb/89 kg – you may see the outstanding progress Boston Dynamics has made within the robotics house. It’s much more outstanding when you think about that 40 years in the past, the venture began out with what appeared like a bouncing cake tin.
Boston Dynamics: 40 years of improvement (1983 – 2023 ) Atlas
In fact, Atlas isn’t the one robotic in Boston Dynamics’ secure, there’s additionally Spot and Stretch. Given how onerous the corporate works to be pioneers within the robotics recreation, there’s little doubt that its retirement announcement for Atlas will quickly be adopted by information of a brand-new humanoid robotic with much more spectacular capabilities.
