OK, we’re doomed.
Not only can robots apparently become citizens of countries now, the next thing they’ll be joining their Olympics teams!
Boston Dynamics caught the world’s attention with the latest successful test of their Atlas robot.
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In an astounding video (above), the 5’9″, 180 lb machine does a series of increasingly difficult vertical leaps before performing a perfect backflip and sticking the landing!
Obviously, people on Twitter had some thoughts, ranging from impressed to terrified beyond all capacity for rational thought. See some of the best (below)!
The robot did a backflip.
“So what, can it dance?”
The robot danced.
“Huh. But can it… uh…”
“It can applaud others.”
“That’s not hard!”
— Micro SF/F stories (@MicroSFF) November 17, 2017
Me: Well Atlas, if you’re so good, why don’t you do a back fl—oh. Okay.@BostonDynamics does it again. Amazing progress in #robotics! Though this video needed more robot kicking. #ArtificialIntelligencehttps://t.co/urdp64gU0M pic.twitter.com/tMpKKhVWU5
— Randy Olson (@randal_olson) November 17, 2017
This robot looks like he’s providing an exciting injury update to fans via his Instagram pic.twitter.com/n2XWqWsk8I
— Mark Brus (@mbrus88) November 17, 2017
i just saw a robot do a backflip and now i’m googling other planets to live on
— vanta. (@hellvblvck) November 17, 2017
(Machine processes numbers 1000x faster than human brain)
MANKIND: Hm.
(Computer beats human at chess)
MANKIND: Huh.
(Robot does backflip)
MANKIND: pic.twitter.com/lsUjX4GOkb
— Glen Weldon (@ghweldon) November 17, 2017
I for one cannot wait for our new robot overlords to backflip us into extinction. pic.twitter.com/9z9y0yZtwE
— Elliot Hackney (@ElliotHackney) November 17, 2017
We’re all going to die. pic.twitter.com/kIVXA8c2aU
— Jason (@CounterMoonbat) November 17, 2017
I don’t care what anyone else says: I love parkour robot and can’t wait for him to do a triple backflip and land on my brittle human skull https://t.co/ma2GrZUBnq
— nathan grayson (@Vahn16) November 16, 2017
Don’t worry too much about your jobs if you saw that robot doing a backflip – this is the same lad trying to stack a shelf pic.twitter.com/L8vkn91UBD
— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) November 17, 2017
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