I am sure many people have followed Boston Dynamics over the years. Their videos of Atlas (the humanoid robot), Spot (the dog one) and handle (the weird one with the grabber and wheels) have generated nearly a billion views on YouTube so far.
I don't think it is a stretch to say that Atlas has demonstrated the most incredible movement in a humanoid robot to date. Yesterday Boston Dynamics announced they were retiring Atlas and gave it a farewell video which has some great footage of early testing as well as failures the robot has suffered while testing.
While this might have seemed like the end of the humanoid type robot at Boston Dynamics, today they released a video of All New Atlas which uses electric motors instead of hydraulic fluid (of which you can see ruptured lines in several cases in the video above).
IEEE Spectrum conducted an interview with Robert Playter the CEO of Boston Dynamics about the origin of All New Atlas which contains some good information.
They also have an overview of the robot itself.
Really look forward to seeing what they do with the All New Atlas!
