{"id":129885,"date":"2021-11-02T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T00:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/watch-boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-crush-a-new-parkour-course"},"modified":"2021-11-02T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T00:23:29","slug":"watch-boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-crush-a-new-parkour-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/watch-boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-crush-a-new-parkour-course","title":{"rendered":"Watch Boston Dynamics\u2019 Atlas Robot Crush a New Parkour Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-crush-a-new-parkour-course2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The big question that may be on many viewers\u2019 minds is whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/topics\/#robotics\">robots<\/a> are truly navigating the course on their own\u2014making real-time decisions about how high to jump or how far to extend a foot\u2014or if they\u2019re pre-programmed to execute each motion according to a detailed map of the course.<\/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\/EezdinoG4mk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As engineers explain in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EezdinoG4mk&t=2s\">second new video<\/a> and accompanying <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bostondynamics.com\/atlas-leaps-bounds-and-backflips\">blog post<\/a>, it\u2019s a combination of both.<\/p>\n<p>Atlas is equipped with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitioptics.com\/glossary\/visible-imaging-sensor-400700nm-colour-cameras\">RGB cameras<\/a> and depth sensors to give it \u201cvision,\u201d providing input to its control system, which is run on three computers. In the dance video linked above and previous videos of Atlas doing parkour, the robot wasn\u2019t sensing its environment and adapting its movements accordingly (though it did make in-the-moment adjustments to keep its balance).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big question that may be on many viewers\u2019 minds is whether the robots are truly navigating the course on their own\u2014making real-time decisions about how high to jump or how far to extend a foot\u2014or if they\u2019re pre-programmed to execute each motion according to a detailed map of the course. As engineers explain in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129885","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}