Boston Dynamics sends Atlas to the robotic retirement house

Almost 11 years after it first its present humanoid robotic, Boston Dynamics is retiring Atlas. The DARPA-funded robotic was designed with search and rescue missions in thoughts, with the concept that it might have the ability to enter areas that had been unsafe for people to hold out a variety of duties. Nonetheless, Atlas turned a little bit of a star due to movies displaying off its and spectacular feats of energy, agility and steadiness. Fittingly, Atlas is trotting off into the sundown with

“For nearly a decade, Atlas has sparked our creativeness, impressed the following generations of roboticists, and leapt over technical boundaries within the subject,” the YouTube description reads. “Now it’s time for our hydraulic Atlas robotic to sit back and loosen up.”

Boston Dynamics’ farewell to Atlas does not simply present among the the robotic can do. It’s kind of of a blooper reel as properly. Together with hurling a toolbag and leaping between platforms, Atlas slips, journeys and falls a bunch of occasions within the clip — oddly sufficient, that makes it appear extra human.

Boston Dynamics after all has extra commercially profitable robots in its lineup, together with . It is doubtless not the top of the road for the corporate’s humanoid robots completely, although. “Have a look again at the whole lot we’ve completed with the Atlas platform so far,” reads the outline on the farewell video. These final two phrases counsel Boston Dynamics is not fairly accomplished with that aspect of robotics but.

Engadget has contacted the corporate for particulars about its future humanoid robotic improvement plans. For now, it appears Atlas might be on the lookout for a Wednesday afternoon dance companion at a robotic retirement house.