{"id":188487,"date":"2024-05-01T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/boston-dynamics-says-farewell-to-its-humanoid-atlas-robot-then-brings-it-back-fully-electric"},"modified":"2024-05-01T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T19:24:10","slug":"boston-dynamics-says-farewell-to-its-humanoid-atlas-robot-then-brings-it-back-fully-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/boston-dynamics-says-farewell-to-its-humanoid-atlas-robot-then-brings-it-back-fully-electric","title":{"rendered":"Boston Dynamics Says Farewell to Its Humanoid Atlas Robot\u2014Then Brings It Back Fully Electric"},"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\/-9EM5_VFlt8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Boston Dynamics announced it was <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/boston-dynamics-atlas-retires\">retiring its hydraulic Atlas robot<\/a>. Atlas has long been the standard bearer of advanced humanoid robots. Over the years, the company was known as much for its research robots as it was for slick viral videos of them working out in military fatigues, <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2021\/01\/06\/start-the-new-year-right-by-watching-these-robots-awesome-dance-moves\/\">forming dance mobs<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2021\/08\/18\/watch-boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-crush-a-new-parkour-course\/\">doing parkour<\/a>. Fittingly, the company put together a send-off video of Atlas\u2019s greatest hits and blunders.<\/p>\n<p>But there were clues this wasn\u2019t really the end, not least of which was the specific inclusion of the word \u201chydraulic\u201d and the last line of the video, \u201c\u2018Til we meet again, Atlas.\u201d It wasn\u2019t a long hiatus. Today, the company released hydraulic Atlas\u2019s successor\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/bostondynamics.com\/blog\/electric-new-era-for-atlas\/\">electric Atlas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Boston Dynamics announced it was retiring its hydraulic Atlas robot. Atlas has long been the standard bearer of advanced humanoid robots. Over the years, the company was known as much for its research robots as it was for slick viral videos of them working out in military fatigues, forming dance mobs, and doing parkour. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188487","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}