Google's terrifying humanoid robot runs through forest

A terrifying humanoid robot was built by Boston Dynamic.
They built a one of a kind humanoid robot that can walk through the forest and surpass obstacles.

They say "this robot may not like us, who can do everything, but if they will get pushing, they maybe have it in the future".

Watch the entire video of how amazing this robot, and of what capabilty it can do.


However, it's the humanoid robots that begin to make one fear that the prawns from the movie "District 9" were mere pets compared with what our scientists might think up.

Balance and dynamics are the two main thrusts of humanoid robot development. But when Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert shows the six-foot-tall Atlas humanoid robot marauding through the woods, you wonder about the juxtaposition between future and nature.

This robot looks like one of those people/things that want to stab characters in movies. If he/she/it suddenly produced a chainsaw, I wouldn't be surprised.


When it breaks into a trot, you get the sense that it has spotted someone it needs to assault and will continue to advance until its preprogrammed task is complete. A tree would be safer from it than a human.

It's not hard to conceive that we might be looking at the future boots on the ground, as the saying goes. This would make for a fearsome soldier.


Raibert admits Atlas isn't quite human yet. However, he said: "You can imagine if we keep pushing, we'll get there."
I think I can imagine, yes. I imagine that this Atlas isn't so fond of shrugging as he is of relentlessly pursuing.



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