Large Behavior Models Are Helping Atlas Get to Work

Boston Dynamics can be forgiven, I think, for the relative lack of acrobatic prowess displayed by the new version of Atlas in (most of) its latest videos. In fact, if you look at this Atlas video from late last year and compare it to Atlas’s most recent video, it’s doing what looks to be more or less the same logistics-y stuff—all of which is far less visually exciting than backflips. But I would argue that the relatively dull tasks Atlas is working on now, moving car parts and