In an impressive dance video that is partly a celebration of an incredible engineering achievement and partly an advertisement for the robotics company, Boston Dynamics showed four of its robots performing fully choreographed dance moves on the Contours hit “Do you love me”.
The MIT spinoff sells its real robots to warehouses, police, utilities, laboratories and factories to perform tasks better and more safely than humans.
To show how far their robots’ skills have come, Boston Dynamics on Tuesday had its robots doing the twist, mashed potatoes and some seriously complicated dance moves that were partly impressive and partly mysterious.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and famous artificial intelligence skeptic
noticed: “This is not CGI” – even if the impressive show was unbelievable.
Boston Dynamics has not yet achieved the commercial success that some robotics champions expected or expected. The company lists only a handful of customers and has had three different owners in the past three years: Google (GOOGL) bought it in 2013, then sold it to Softbank in 2017, before Hyundai bought it earlier this year.
The company began selling its robotic dog Spot to American companies in June for $ 74,500 each.
Spot, featured in the video with the most human-like Atlas robots and the Handle robot with wheels, is Boston Dynamics’ most famous product. The four-legged robot drew attention to the tasks it can perform, which include running, climbing stairs and even reminding people to practice social detachment in the Covid-19 era. It is generally used for inspections on construction sites or similar situations.
But Atlas stole the show in the video “Do you love me”. Last year, Boston Dynamics showed Atlas performing parkour tricks, including backflips, aerial somersaults and 360-degree jumps. This year’s video was jaw-dropping in comparison, showing how far the Atlas’s capabilities have advanced in a year.
Atlas was a convincing dancer, performing nimble jumps and high kicks in rhythm.
