Video: Boston Dynamics unveils stronger, more capable electric Atlas robot

Hmm…freaky yes, but a bit thin on content and short on grace - which we’ve seen in greater quantities with some of the other bots frequenting this website…

Both absolutely amazing and so far beyond creepy at the same time.

Alas, can't imagine in any way that we Field Monkeys are going to be able to handle this.

The movie M3GAN seems a little closer to current tech each day.

"I will initiate self-destruct sequencing. Manufacturer's protocol dictates I cannot be captured. I must self-destruct"

looks like they are feeling the pressure from Tesla breathing down their neck as they are being put out to pasture by Tesla

Very nice bot. Looks very refined, smooth operation, no visible wires, this is clearly something they have secretly been working on for some time.
Nice to see them upgrade to all electric, like all of their competition. I'm looking forward to seeing video's of it's hands, and also if it's packing a LLM AI, currently Figure has the lead on that front. The spinning around mobility of this bot is amazing, it sure make watch Agility's Digit bot turn around (which takes 625 steps) very hard to watch. Teslabot still has better hands & feet, the the fit & finish here is similar.

From the little you can see, that is the most upright and human-like walk I have ever seen on a robot.

This snippet knocks the competition out of the ballpark at least for now. But yes it’s a snippet so yes we need a lot more to show it’s true capabilities but equally for some here to claim competitors have shown so much more is disingenuous for this is but the intro teaser for this brand new game changing robot as BD see it. You grab the attention and when have the attention you show the true capabilities. ‘Grace’ don’t get that comment, robots will only do ballet for amusement and generally slow considered but fundamentally less capable models will tend to look more ‘graceful’ but other than as a Butler such a quality is seldom relevant to a robot’s true role, while if you are much more than gracefully slow in your movement such a quality can no doubt be re programmed into the basic design as and where required as all the movement is there already. The hands, well they are interchangeable and again as with ‘grace’ BD is concentrating on industrial tasks for now, as its links to Hyundai will ensure and where for the foreseeable future most of the opportunities will lay. Human hands aren’t great for many of these tasks so the new three prong gripper and other mods and developments will no doubt concentrate upon practical serviceable needs not delicacy for now. Excited to see more here but yes as others have said damn spooky and industrial use is clearly its immediate future but then the user friendly needs of human interaction in home and other similar environments for such humanoid bots is still further down the line with less able, realistic and capable examples dominating there I suspect well beyond what industry will use them for and until far more human like examples are available at the right price at which time this robot will I’m sure be more than capable base from which to develop it from.

Waiting for the first cyborg.

That is one beautiful robot!
I would like to see two robots having a discussion, given a starting subject.