Watch this robot struggle to walk over uneven ground like a real person

Boston Dynamics, the famed manufacturer of the robots that will one day ascend past human intelligence and install themselves as our metallic overlords, released the latest version of its bipedal Atlas robot earlier this year. And now, the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IMHC) has upgraded Atlas even further, with a new control algorithm that solves one of the Atlas' biggest issues: walking on uneven terrain.The new algorithm allows the robot to maintain its balance as it wa