In an impressive dance video that partly celebrates incredible engineering success and partly advertises for the robotics company, Boston Dynamics showed four of its robots performing fully choreographed dance moves to the success of The Contours “Do you love me “.
The MIT spin-off sells its real robots to warehouses, police, utilities, labs, and factories to perform tasks better and more safely than humans.
To show how far their robots ’skills have come, Boston Dynamics had their robots on Tuesday doing the spin, mashed potatoes and some seriously complicated dance moves that were an impressive part and a weird part.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and famous artificial intelligence skeptic
pointed out: “This is not CGI,” even if the awesome program was out of belief.
Boston Dynamics has not achieved the commercial success that some robotics champions had expected or expected. The company only lists a handful of customers and in the last three years has had three different owners: Google (GOOGL) bought it in 2013 and then sold it to Softbank in 2017 before Hyundai bought it earlier this year.
The company began selling its Spot robotic dog to U.S. companies in June for $ 74,500 each.
Spot, featured in the video with the most human Atlas robots and the wheeled Handle robot, is Boston Dynamics’ most famous product. The four-legged robot has caught the eye for tasks it can perform, which include running, climbing stairs, and even reminding people to practice social distancing in the Covid-19 era. It is generally used for inspections in works or similar situations.
But Atlas stole the show in the “You Love Me” video. Last year, Boston Dynamics showed Atlas performing parkour tricks, including backflips, aerial laps, and 360-degree vault jumps. In comparison, this year’s video dropped their hands, showing how far Atlas capabilities have come in a year.
Atlas was a convincing dancer, making agile jumps and high-legged kicks to the beat.
