Watch: Google’s latest robotic Takes A Beating And will get back Up

Michael Grothaus February 24, 2016

when you have nightmares over a robot rebellion sooner or later—a la Terminator—you almost certainly don’t want to watch the newest video from Boston Dynamics, the robotics firm Google obtained just a few years ago that is now a part of its secretive Google X research division.

The video will possibly make your jaw drop. It shows Boston Dynamics’ newest Atlas humanoid droid, which is 5-foot-9 and weighs 180 pounds—so the size of your moderate human—now not best walking upright with relative ease, but additionally getting again up when pushed down by means of what it’s going to probably one day come to look as its human tormentor.

The movements the Atlas droid can perform are awe-inspiring, from squatting to pick out up heavy applications, to balancing itself so it doesn’t fall over whereas walking down a snowy hillside. Then, after all there is its ability to get back up all by itself when being knocked over. And if all that weren’t enough to cause somewhat of marvel (and alarm), the fact that the droid makes a snappy exit for the door a couple of times in the video will most certainly make you surprise the place this factor would possibly show up subsequent.

And if the biped droid doesn’t unnerve you we urge you to try what Google X’s robotics division has in retailer for pets and Christmas.