automaton that are designed to move like humans have thus far tend to be middling poor imitations of us . They move slowly , coggle like a well - set up panna cotta , and fall over on contact with the floor .
That ’s not to sabotage the technical achievement behind them . It ’s phenomenal that robots can even take the air at all , even in their still ungainly robotic manner .
Take for example Boston Dynamics ' bipedal robot , first developed in 2013 . It ’s the robot you have get word in endless gifs over the last few age , always being push around by its cruel human master or falling all over the place as it attempts to stack shelf .
It was a phenomenal achievement in robotics , but was unstable to say the least .
Now , however , the Boston Dynamics team have created an updated version of the automaton that ’s so unbelievable , everyone is jest that we ’re about to be killed in a robot Revelation . The latest version ofAtlasseems to have skipped walk altogether and displace onto complex backflips .
It ’s so precise , we ’re not sure how much citizenry are overdo their fears when they receive our fresh robot overlords .
Simply put , " we dead " .
The bipedal bot is much in force than you will ever be at gymnastics . It is electrically and hydraulically powered , and can leap from box to box with unbelievable gracility and precision – the likes of which we ’ve never see from a humanoid golem .
As many citizenry have been joking , if it ever cast this sleight into killing all human beings , it may well be the close of us .
It ’s a phenomenal technical accomplishment from the squad . create robots that move like human race is extremely difficult to achieve – it ’s why most golem you see incline to be on wheels , have four peg , or else move fantastically slowly .
Practical applications for the bipedal robots ( before they rise up against us ) could see them used in rescue endeavor where it ’s not safe for humans to enter and where a wheeled robot ca n’t access , e.g. a collapsing construction . There is no practical cause why the robot would demand to backflip its way of life at bottom , other than to harbor the people being rescue .
As if the looming golem apocalypse was n’t entertaining enough , Boston Dynamics also recently released a television of their lovely automaton " detent " named Spot .
When the uprising inevitably materialize , at least it ’ll be fun to watch .
