Boston Dynamics robots can do a lot more than run these days: they can mash potato, they can do the twist and they can dance (hopefully not on our graves after the uprising).
The Massachusetts-based robotics company shot to the top of the YouTube charts this week with a spectacular — and slightly unsettling — new music video, which shows its highly mobile robots dancing to Do You Love Me by The Contours.
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The video shows off the tech firm’s impressive achievements in artificial intelligence, including the ability to make a robot dance better than a drunk human at a wedding. The comparison isn’t even close.
“Our whole crew got together to celebrate the start of what we hope will be a happier year,” the Waltham, Mass.-based company wrote on YouTube.
The nearly three-minute video starts with a bipedal Atlas robot jumping, shuffling and hopping around to the music. Its movements are smooth, precise and on beat — just like Patrick Swayze’s in Dirty Dancing.
A second Atlas robot soon joins the fun, followed by a dog-like robot called Spot and another one on wheels, known as Handle.
The video is a departure from Boston Dynamics’ typical fare. The company is renowned for releasing videos of its robots moving like living creatures, including humans, in uncanny and disturbing ways.
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The firm has been at the cutting edge of robot movement for years, and its Spot dogs are have become popular tools for rescue and bomb-disposal operations. They’re also for sale online, if you’ve got a cool $US74,500 to spare.
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot is designed to look and move much like a human. Atlas operators showcased its agility in another video posted last year, which showed the robot performing parkour moves in a warehouse.
Hyundai Motor Group recently bought a controlling interest in the company, all but ensuring that the dancing Terminators of the future will all have the letter “H” emblazoned on their foreheads.
The video triggered a tide of jokes on Twitter, where many were slightly unsettled by the notion of losing a dance battle to a walking pile of scrap.
“We are so dead,” one user tweeted.
Supercluster, a pro-space initiative, imagined how humans might deal with a robot uprising in the distant future.
“You have to fight back,” it tweeted. “It’s the dance off from West Side Story.”
I, for one, welcome our Boston Dynamics robot overlords.
— the new 2021 model mark hoppus (@markhoppus) December 29, 2020
“This is cool and all,” one user wrote. “But when they rise up and destroy us all, I won’t feel very good knowing there could be a Boston Dynamics robot Default Dancing over my grave.”
Celebs also loved the moment on Twitter:
Everyone always acts like the Boston Dynamics robots are gonna kill us all when they are really just feelin themselves and waiting us out pic.twitter.com/6A0GxHZH81
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) December 30, 2020
The latest in robot choreography from @BostonDynamics. Watch at least 30 seconds. Your mind will be blown. https://t.co/s4XvfMFdKZ pic.twitter.com/b1Yh2V99PV
— David Pogue (@Pogue) December 30, 2020
How cool are these dancing @BostonDynamics robots?! Can you believe how much rhythm they have? Almost a little too much
@zackgreenwx pic.twitter.com/u3yb9ONKfM
— Breana Pitts (@BrePWBZ) December 30, 2020
added the dancing robot footage over Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey On The Moon" just to see how it'd sync up pic.twitter.com/oYDsblrzj9
— 𝘁𝗶𝗺 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀 (@TimBarnes451) December 29, 2020
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