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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I get the article but some of these examples are pants. atlas is not geared toward trekking outdoors in undeveloped areas:

"Boston Dynamics’ new, all-electric Atlas is even more impressive, with a range of motion that seems almost alien. But what the viral acrobatics videos don’t show is what it can’t do. It could not walk confidently across a mossy rock, for instance, because its feet cannot feel the surface to conform to it. It could not push its way through a dense thicket of branches, because its body cannot yield and then spring back."