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Boston Dynamic's Atlas Robot terrifying 6ft humanoid, Ian, balance on thin planks

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<span id="ext-gen123" style="font-size: 1.2em;">From
 throwing a paper aeroplane to doing a Karate Kid-style high kick, the 
list of tasks Google's Atlas robot can do is ever-growing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Now the latest movement mastered by the machine involves delicately balancing itself on a 0.7 inch (2 cm) wide strip of plywood.</span></div>
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 the most remarkable part is the way  the robot eventually loses its 
balance and steps off the plank, in an almost human-like display of 
balance and recovery.</span></div>
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From throwing a paper aeroplane to 
doing a Karate Kid-style high kick, the list of tasks the Atlas robot 
can do is ever-growing. The latest movement mastered by the Boston 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The new<a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgZVk8Pzhf0" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"> video</a> shows Atlas balancing for around 20 seconds, before wobbling and falling off the small beam. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 Atlas robot, created by Google-owned firm Boston Dynamics, is a 
formidable figure at 6ft 2in (1.8 metres) tall and weighing in at 330lbs
 (150 kg).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The robot boasts 28 hydraulically-operated joints and stereo vision, making it one of the most advanced robots ever created.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">On
 its website, Boston Dynamics said: 'Atlas can walk bipedally leaving 
the upper limbs free to lift, carry, and manipulate the environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'In 
extremely challenging terrain, Atlas is strong and coordinated enough to
 climb using hands and feet, to pick its way through congested spaces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Articulated,
 sensate hands will enable Atlas to use tools designed for human use. 
Atlas includes 28 hydraulically-actuated degrees of freedom, two hands, 
arms, legs, feet and a torso.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'An articulated sensor head includes stereo cameras and a laser range finder.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Atlas
 is powered by an off-board, electric power supply through a flexible 
tether - although a new version promises to remove this.</span></div>
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The Atlas robot, created by Google-owned firm Boston Dynamics, is a formidable figure at 6ft 2in tall and weighing in at 330lb</div>
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The robot is controlled by a human, but it is not simply a matter of using a joystick to control the robot.</div>
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Speaking about a previous video, John Carff, an Atlas robot operator at Boston Dynamics, told <a class="" href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/atlas-does-some-chores?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ieeespectrum%2Fautomaton+%28Automaton+-+IEEE+Spectrum%29" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">IEEE Spectrum</a>: '<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Most of the stuff in this video is controlled by me, but in a co-active way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I
 tell the robot through the UI (user interface) that I want to grab a 
bottle off the table by clicking the bottle and making sure that the 
resulting hand is in the correct place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Then, the robot tells me how it's going to move its entire body to reach that location, through a preview in the UI. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'If I'm okay with the plan the robot has come up with, I tell it to execute that motion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'In
 the future, I can see a lot of what was done in this video moving more 
to the autonomous side, but I always see there being a human in the 
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The robot boasts 28 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The team has previously recreated the 'crane kick' from the Karate Kid movie, teaching the robot to stand on one leg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Researchers
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created the algorithm to allow Atlas to balance, say they are inspired 
by nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
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 the maneuverability of monkeys, and the versatility of humans, IHMC 
researchers are on a quest to develop legged robots that are fast, 
efficient, and graceful, with the mobility required to access many of 
the same places that humans can.' </span></div>
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Boston Dynamic's Atlas Robot terrifying 6ft humanoid, Ian, balance on thin planks

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The newest version of the 5ft 9in (175cm), two-legged cyborg is shown 
navigating snow-covered terrain, lifting 10lb (4.5kg) boxes with ease, 
and resisting a human’s attempt to knock it over.<br />
Engineers are also seen taunting and teasing Atlas by repeatedly 
knocking one of the boxes out of its hands with a hockey stick, which 
could backfire later if the robot develops revenge programming. <i>rt</i><br />
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<i>“It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and 
stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain, help 
with navigation and manipulate objects,”</i> Boston Dynamics said about the 180lb (82 kg) machine.<br />
<i>The video ends with the robot opening a door and exiting the building, presumably to go plot the fall of mankind. </i><br />
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Humanoid robot Atlas, a possible breakthrough for the cyborg takeover of Earth. <i>dailygrail</i><br />
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In recent years the name Boston Dynamics has become synonymous with 
next-level robotics.<br />
The robotics company has released a number of 
amazing videos showing off their creations.<br />
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Boston Dynamics have now released some footage of the new-and-improved 
model of their humanoid Atlas robot - one that can open doors, lift and 
place objects, recover from being pushed, and even stand back up after 
being knocked over. And those same emotions are bound to resurface, 
swinging from sympathy when Atlas is being pushed around, to trepidation
 when it gets pushed to the ground and manages to stand itself back 
up...remind me again where we've seen a robot keep getting up after 
being knocked down?<br />
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A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside 
buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically
 powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and 
legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid 
obstacles, assess the terrain, help with navigation and manipulate 
objects.<br />
This version of Atlas is about 5' 9" tall (about a head shorter
 than the DRC Atlas) and weighs 180 lbs.<br />
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Earlier this month, the company showed off their four-legged robot, 
Spot, and, again, staff were shown repeatedly kicking their creation as 
it slowly built up a resentment for humans.
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<b>American
 aerospace manufacturer SpaceX CEO is worried that Google may 
“accidentally” create an evil robot army that can turn against the human
 race.</b><br />
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Google's intensive research into robotics could 
"produce something evil by accident," technology entrepreneur Elon Musk 
said in a new self-titled authorized biography, <em>The Independent</em> reported.<br />
Musk
 is the CEO at the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) 
and electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors and one of the founders of 
Pay Pal online payments system.<br />
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Without clearly specifying any 
ultimate purpose, Google started to acquire robotics companies such as 
Boston Dynamics, which makes numerous types of robots, including a 
humanoid robot called Atlas and a running robot, called Big Dog, which 
was developed for and funded by the US military.<br />
Speculations point to the possibility that the robots are designed to run on a Google-developed Artificial Intelligence.<br />
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<img alt="" height="360" src="http://217.218.67.233//photo/20150513/d7ef8e54-946b-47ea-9b90-f320165d3129.jpg" width="640" /><em> Boston Dynamics Big Dog, developed for and funded by the US military</em><br />
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"You
 should presume that someday, we will be able to make machines that can 
reason, think and do things better than we can," Google CEO Larry Page 
said in a July 2014 interview.</blockquote>
In the past, Musk has 
publicly announced his fears that the development of AI should be 
closely monitored as it may turn out to be dangerous.<br />
AI is humankind’s biggest existential threat and its development is comparable to “summoning a demon,” he said.<br />
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“The
 risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year 
timeframe. Ten years at most," the SpaceX CEO wrote a few months ago in a
 leaked comment to an internet publication referring to the dangers of 
AI. "Please note that I am normally super pro-technology and have never 
raised this issue until recent months. This is not a case of crying wolf
 about something I don't understand."<br />
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Back in December, renowned 
physicist Stephen Hawking warned, “The development of full artificial 
intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” adding that 
"humans... couldn't compete and would be superseded" by robots.<br />
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