Boston Dynamics Atlas and Spot robots can now dance better than you can

Boston Dynamics' Map collection and Spot robots terminate do a lot of things: sprinting, gymnastic routines, parkour, backflips, opening doors to let in an army of their friends, washing dishes, and (poorly) getting actual jobs. But the company's latest video adds another stunning play a trick on to our future robotic overlords' repertoire: busting sick trip the light fantastic moves.

The video recording sees Boston Dynamics' entire lineup of robots — the humanoid Atlas, the dog-shaped Spot, and the box-juggling Handle — entirely come together in a bopping, coordinated dancing routine set to The Contours' "Do You Love Me."

It's not the showtime time Boston Dynamics has shown off its robots' dancing skills: the company showcased a video recording of its Bit robot doing the Flying Man to "Uptown Funk" in 2018. just the new video takes things to some other level, with the Atlas robot tearing it up connected the saltation floor: smoothly running, jump, make, and twirling through various moves.

Things amaze even more marvelous equally more robots file out, prancing around in the kind of coordinated dance routine that puts my ain, admittedly awful human dancing to shame. Compared to the jerky movements of the 2016 loop of Atlas, the new model most looks like a CGI creation.

Boston Dynamics was of late purchased by Hyundai, which bought the robotics firm from SoftBank in a $1.1 one thousand million deal. The company was originally based in 1992 Eastern Samoa a spin-inactive from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where it became known for its dog-like quadrupedal robots (most notably, the DARPA-funded BigDog, a precursor to the company's number 1 inferior automaton, Spot.) IT was bought by Alphabet's X division in 2013, and so by SoftBank in 2017.

While the Atlas and Handle robots featured present are motionless just research prototypes, Bean Town Dynamics has recently started selling the Spot model to any company for the considerable price of $74,500. Just can you real put a price on creating your own personal legion of boogieing robot minions?