Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Can Now Do Gymnastics

Following the unveiling of its parkour skills, Boston Dynamics released a new video of its humanoid robot Atlas taking it one step further and performing a gymnastics routine. According to Boston Dynamics, it created its maneuvers with "an optimization algorithm transforms high-level descriptions of each maneuver into dynamically-feasible reference motions." This allows Atlas to track the motions with a model predictive controller that moves from one action seamlessly into the next. This allows ...