You don’t need to be afraid of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Skynet-commissioned cyborg assassin in 1984 the Terminator The worry is that super-strong, all-terrain, bipedal humanoid robots are moving fast, pulling off backflips and straightening themselves up, enough to break our necks at the sight of them. Can be programmed. (And laser guns, never give them laser guns.)
As with the older Atlas, we can console ourselves with the notion that clever editing meant the Atlas was not as self-correcting over rough ground as the original viral video made it appear. The appearance in the retirement video proves that the guess was correct. However, today’s video may revive any fears of robot overlords you may have suppressed. This thing is scary, and not just because it has a ringlight for a face. (Who had “robot YouTube influencer” on whose 2024 bingo card?)
Old Atlas, nice to know you – you are an awesome, stunning, parkouring, metal man machine.
Also scary if you’re an Amazon warehouse worker, because New Atlas can do the job with a three-fingered hand strapped to the back of its matte gray robotic back. More likely, however, is that Hyundai – which bought Boston Dynamics in 2020 for a reported $1 billion deal – could soon put the Atlas to work in its car factories. “The journey will begin with Hyundai,” Boston Dynamics confirmed. in a statement Announcing the All New Atlas Launch.
Again, no details have been released, but we can guess that the new Atlas will be tasked with laser welding in the Korean company’s factories rather than dull, repetitive tasks. (Remember, keep the laser away from the robot butler.)
Hyundai isn’t the only company planning to use humanoid robots as workers. Beating Tesla’s still-developing Optimus line of humanoid robots, Canada’s Sanctuary AI announced on April 11 that it would be delivering one. humanoid robot Magna, an Austrian automotive firm that assembles cars for Mercedes, Jaguar and BMW.
And Californian robotics startup Figure announced in February that it had raised $675 million From investors like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Amazon to work with OpenAI on generative artificial intelligence for humanoid robots.
A general-purpose humanoid robot that can learn instantaneously. What could possibly be wrong with this?
