{"id":104577,"date":"2020-04-01T09:23:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/boston-dynamics-atlas-can-now-do-an-impressive-gymnastics-routine"},"modified":"2020-04-01T09:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:23:28","slug":"boston-dynamics-atlas-can-now-do-an-impressive-gymnastics-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/boston-dynamics-atlas-can-now-do-an-impressive-gymnastics-routine","title":{"rendered":"Boston Dynamics\u2019 Atlas can now do an impressive gymnastics routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_sBBaNYex3E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alongside the news that Boston Dynamics is going to let its robot dog, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/9\/24\/20880511\/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-mini-hands-on-lease-buy\">Spot, out of its laboratory for the first time<\/a>, the company has released a new video of Atlas, its spectacular bipedal robot that\u2019s previously been seen doing everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tldr\/2018\/10\/11\/17964912\/boston-dynamics-atlas-parkour-video-jumping\">parkour<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/11\/16\/16667376\/boston-dynamics-atlas-backflip-video-watch\">backflips<\/a>. In this latest video, Atlas does a small gymnastics routine, consisting of a number of somersaults, a short handstand, a 360-degree spinning jump, and even a balletic split leap.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s most impressive is seeing Atlas tie all these moves together into one pretty cohesive routine. In the video\u2019s description, Boston Dynamics says that it\u2019s using a \u201cmodel predictive controller\u201d to blend from one maneuver to the next. Presumably each somersault gives the robot a fair amount of forward momentum, but at no point in the video does it seem to lose its balance as a result. Amazingly, Atlas is able to roll gracefully along its back without any of its machinery getting squashed or tangled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside the news that Boston Dynamics is going to let its robot dog, Spot, out of its laboratory for the first time, the company has released a new video of Atlas, its spectacular bipedal robot that\u2019s previously been seen doing everything from parkour to backflips. In this latest video, Atlas does a small gymnastics routine, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}