{"id":133870,"date":"2022-01-10T22:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T06:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/these-boston-dynamics-robots-perform-parkour-maneuvers-to-push-their-limits"},"modified":"2022-01-10T22:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T06:22:54","slug":"these-boston-dynamics-robots-perform-parkour-maneuvers-to-push-their-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/these-boston-dynamics-robots-perform-parkour-maneuvers-to-push-their-limits","title":{"rendered":"These Boston Dynamics Robots Perform Parkour Maneuvers to Push Their Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-boston-dynamics-robots-perform-parkour-maneuvers-to-push-their-limits2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parkour is <em>not<\/em> for the weak-hearted. Luckily, the two latest freerunning champs don\u2019t have a heart at all because, you know, they\u2019re <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/robots\/a35765898\/disney-develops-robot-with-realistic-human-gaze\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/robots\/a35765898\/disney-develops-robot-with-realistic-human-gaze\/\">robots.<\/a><\/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\/tF4DML7FIWk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a YouTube <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk\">video<\/a> released Tuesday, Boston Dynamics\u2014the Waltham, Massachusetts-based robotics company known for its viral clips of machines performing surprisingly human activities\u2014shows off two humanoid robots (both named Atlas) performing the leaps, bounds, and backflips required to complete a parkour course.<\/p>\n<p>The first robot hops across wooden <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/adventure\/sports\/a25361959\/cory-keen-skate-ramps\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/adventure\/sports\/a25361959\/cory-keen-skate-ramps\/\">ramps<\/a>, climbs stairs, and jumps across several-foot-wide chasms between obstacles before a second robot picks up the routine, running across a balance beam \u00e0 la Simone Biles. By the end of the video, the robots have hopped over pieces of the course as you might leap over a fence, performed backflips in sync, and even dusted off their shoulders like it\u2019s nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parkour is not for the weak-hearted. Luckily, the two latest freerunning champs don\u2019t have a heart at all because, you know, they\u2019re robots. In a YouTube video released Tuesday, Boston Dynamics\u2014the Waltham, Massachusetts-based robotics company known for its viral clips of machines performing surprisingly human activities\u2014shows off two humanoid robots (both named Atlas) performing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133870","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}