Farewell, Atlas. Thanks for not starting the robot uprising.
Boston Dynamics is retiring Atlas , the most famous bipedal robot in existence, according to a new video published on the robotics company’s YouTube page. And we’d be lying if we didn’t admit to getting a little choked up watching the trials and tribulations of Atlas over the years. “For almost a decade, Atlas has sparked our imagination, inspired the next generations of roboticists, and leapt over technical barriers in the field,” the description of this new YouTube video reads.
But it may have been the moment Atlas started doing backflips that things really started to feel weird for humanity. Most people can’t do a backflip. When bipedal robots start doing things better than the average human, we should probably pay attention. Is this really the end for Atlas, as it goes to sit in a rocking chair with the other robots of history? As IEEE Spectrum points out, the language in the new video announcing the retirement of Atlas is somewhat confusing.
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