THE VIDEO SHELF · humanoid robotics
Atlas | Partners in Parkour
Boston Dynamics shows its Atlas humanoid robots running a parkour course with jumps, balance beams and vaults, demonstrating whole-body athletic control.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it as the benchmark for state-of-the-art humanoid robot mobility in discussions of Tesla Bot and robotics progress.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Boston Dynamics
- Topic
- humanoid robotics
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 14
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I can say I'm much impressed. At the same time I haven't watched Boston Dynamics videos for last couple of years. When I checked latest Atlas demo from 2021 it look like sci-fi to me: [VIDEO]
SXX on Hacker News · 2022-12
In Xiaomi’s Humanoid Drummer Beats ExpectationsWe said the same thing about movement in robots -- and today we have: [VIDEO] Just ridiculous how far things have come, it seems fake it's so far along.
sergiotapia on Hacker News · 2021-08
In Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
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