Watch: Google's Latest Robot Takes A Beating And Gets Back Up | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Watch: Google’s Latest Robot Takes A Beating And Gets Back Up | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

We’ll come to you. You're Reading: fastcompany / Watch: Google’s Latest Robot Takes A Beating And Gets Back Up Watch: Google’s Latest Robot Takes A Beating And Gets Back Up Is it really smart to hit with a big stick a robot that can do all this? If you have nightmares over a robot uprising in the future—a la Terminator—you probably don’t want to watch the latest video from Boston Dynamics, the robotics company Google acquired a few years ago that is now part of its secretive Google X research division. The video will most likely make your jaw drop. It shows Boston Dynamics’ latest Atlas humanoid droid, which is 5-foot-nine and weighs 180 pounds—so the size of your average human—not only walking upright with relative ease, but also getting back up when pushed down by what it will probably one day come to see as its human tormentor. The actions the Atlas droid can perform are awe-inspiring, from squatting to pick up heavy packages,

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