Atlas humanoid robot gets ready for real work combining strength, perception, and mobility. | Interesting Engineering

The Humanoid robot, Atlas, can sense obstacles and pick up materials of different sizes. | Interesting Engineering

The Atlas robot uses its whole body -- legs, arms, torso -- to perform a sequence of dynamic maneuvers that form a gymnastic routine. The engineers at Doston Dynamics created the maneuvers using new techniques that streamline the development process. First, an optimisation algorithm transforms high-level descriptions of each maneuver into dynamically-feasible reference motions. Then Atlas tracks the motions using a model predictive controller that smoothly blends from one maneuver to the next. U

Atlas the robot can now perform a gymnastics routine complete with the perfect backflip - a breakthrough in robotics design | Sky News