Atlas became an Internet star thanks to videos showing off her graceful dancing skills, strength, agility and balance. So the robot needs a well-deserved rest with another YouTube video.

Goodbye my Atlas

For nearly a decade, Atlas has sparked our imaginations, inspired the next generation of roboticists, and broken technical barriers in the field. Now it’s time for our Atlas hydraulic robot to rest and relax,
– say the creators.

In the video, we can see not only a demonstration of the robot’s capabilities, but also some funny mistakes – how it falls, makes mistakes, rolls down the hill, lands unsuccessfully after a somersault, crashes into the railings, etc.

Farewell to Boston Dynamics’ Atlas: Video

The history of Atlas dates back to 2009, when Boston Dynamics won a $26 million contract with the US Army to produce a bipedal robot originally named PETMAN; It joins other advanced robotics developments from the 2000s, such as Honda’s Asimo and other well-known robots from Boston Dynamics. same decade, BigDog.

Throughout these years Atlas made incredible progress, starting to walk like a normal human and then walking on uneven surfaces.. Soon Atlas was running on battery power, jogging, jumping and running over boxes in increasingly proficient patterns, and even doing backflips. He was beaten, pushed, his ability to keep his balance tested.

Of course, Boston Dynamics has more commercially successful works, including Spot. But this likely isn’t the end of the company’s humanoid robot line. “Take a look at everything we’ve accomplished so far with the Atlas platform”, says the description of the farewell video. The last two words show that Boston Dynamics is not quite done with this area of ​​robotics.