For almost a decade, Atlas has sparked our imagination, inspired the next generations of roboticists, and leapt over technical barriers in the field. Now it’s time for our hydraulic Atlas robot to kick back and relax. Take a look back at everything we’ve accomplished with the Atlas platform to date.

Ridley Scott's Prometheus film wishes happy birthday to its highly-skilled robot, David.
Starring Michael Fassbender

Developed by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering's Biomimetic Robotics Lab under the direction of Associate Professor Sangbae Kim, the quadruped MIT Cheetah has made headlines for its dynamic legged gait, speed, jumping ability, and biomimetic design.

The AlphaDog Proto is a lab prototype for the Legged Squad Support System, a robot being developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA and the US Marine Corps. When fully developed the system will carry 400 lbs of payload on 20-mile missions in rough terrain. The first version of the complete...

A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain...

A team of engineers at Harvard and MIT have designed and built a flat-packed robot that assembles itself and walks away.

A company that has made robotic animals for roles in Hollywood blockbusters including Free Willy, Deep Blue Sea and The Abyss is now hoping to apply its technology to the real-life task of transforming marine parks. In September 2020, Edge Innovations showcased a convincing robotic dolphin as a poss...

Timelapsus is an experimental work where Barcelona based Physalia Graphic Studio mixed 3D animation and photography using a motion control robot made by them. The "Making Off" video includes the processes used in the creation of the short, the building of the motion control robot and the development...

MR. ROBOT is a psychological thriller that follows Elliot (Rami Malek, “24”), a young programmer, who works as a cyber security engineer by day and a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroads when the mysterious leader (Christian Slater, “The Adderall Diaries”) of an undergroun

Beginning in January 2021, advances in AI research have produced a plethora of deep-learning models capable of generating original images from simple text prompts, effectively extending the human imagination. Researchers at OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and others have developed text-to-image tools that...