I Challenged Boston Dynamics’ Famous Atlas Robot

What can this human-like robot really do? Get an exclusive Surfshark Black Friday deal! Enter promo code CLEO to get up to 6 additional months for free at Subscribe to support our show Huge If True: You might know Atlas, the famous robot that does parkour and throws heavy objects in Boston Dynamics’ popular YouTube videos. I visited Boston Dynamics to challenge Atlas to a little friendly competition, to see what this robot can REALLY do. I wanted to answer a question I’ve had since I was a kid: When are all the robots coming? Like C-3PO! The Iron Giant! Sonny from “I, Robot”! Human-like machines that can help people do more than we can by ourselves. For most of my life, humanoid robots have seemed pretty far away. But recently? Not so much. Tesla with Optimus, Boston Dynamics with Atlas, NASA with Valkyrie, startups like Figure and many more are all making huge leaps in this field. In this video, we t