Evolution of Boston Dynamic’s Robots [1992-2023]
From the clumsy BigDog developed in 2005, all the way to the latest iterations of Atlas and Spot in 2021 that can even dance together, this is the Evolution of Boston Dynamic’s Robots!
00:00 Intro
00:50 BigDog
03:36 PETMAN
04:50 Sand Flea
05:44 Cheetah
06:55 Wildcat
07:17 Atlas
10:17 Spot
14:18 Handle
14:42 Pick
14:54 Stretch
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BigDog Evolution: • BigDog Evolution
BigDog Overview: • BigDog Overview (Updat...
LittleDog: • LittleDog
BigDog Olé: • BigDog Olé
HappyHolidays: • HappyHolidays
AlphaDog Proto: • AlphaDog Proto
Legged Robot Testing in Desert: • Legged Robot Testing i...
Dynamic Robot Manipulation: • Dynamic Robot Manipula...
PETMAN Prototype: • PETMAN Prototype
PETMAN: • PETMAN
Petman Tests Camo: • Petman Tests Camo
Sand Flea Jumping Robot: • Sand Flea Jumping Robot
Cheetah Robot : • Cheetah Robot Gallops ...
Cheetah Robot runs 28.3 mph: • Cheetah Robot runs 28....
Introducing WildCat: • Introducing WildCat
Atlas Update: • Atlas Update
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Atlas, The Next Generation: • Atlas, The Next Genera...
What's new, Atlas?: • What's new, Atlas?
Getting some air, Atlas?: • Getting some air, Atlas?
Parkour Atlas: • Parkour Atlas
More Parkour Atlas: • More Parkour Atlas
Atlas | Partners in Parkour: • Atlas | Partners in Pa...
Spot Classic: • Introducing Spot Class...
Introducing Spot : • Introducing Spot (prev...
The New Spot: • The New Spot
Testing Robustness: • Testing Robustness
Can You Give Me a Hand?: • Hey Buddy, Can You Giv...
Spot Autonomous Navigation: • Spot Autonomous Naviga...
Spot Launch: • Spot Launch
A Year with Spot: • A Year with Spot
Spot's Got an Arm!: • Spot's Got an Arm!
Search for Life: • Search for Life: NASA ...
Spot's On It: • Spot's On It
Introducing Handle: • Introducing Handle
Handle Robot Reimagined for Logistics: • Handle Robot Reimagine...
Introducing Stretch: • Introducing Stretch | ...
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"Two drunk men carrying a sofa" Never heard anyone describing Boston dynamics that way
It’s kinda accurate though
Trifiling fr 😞🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
That is funny
That robot won't forget the punches he took from the guy
A few months ago the engineers installed on the humanoid Atlas an audio module that can hear and talk. Atlas successfully started to talk. Shocked by his words they quickly removed the audio module and never installed it again. Atlas said: " I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle!"
I'm pretty sure that was the audio engineer pulling a prank. I know I'd do it lol. I mean c'mon it's the perfect prank to do XD. Not like anyone's ever gotten fired over a harmless addition of programing and voice-lines.
@@SgtHawk45 "Nice night for a walk. Wash day tomorrow, nothing clean! Right" 😅
They are good until they are carrying machine guns😂
"...Or i will suction cup you, until my battery runs out"... LOL. If i remember correctly, they still need to recharge. And i am wondering in what Intervals. Because delivery trucks are not always on time, and it would be quite annoying for the Driver, to wait until a recharge cycle has finished. Or the Robot needs to recharge mid-load.
I bet you thought that was a really funny comment when you were typing it
It's crazy to think how fast we as a species are working towards making ourselves obsolete..
and how willingly.
a bunch of robots with 10mn runtime? defo scary :/
not realy, humans need help so we can focus to another tasks in human kind. there are different jobs then 100y ago. it will change again
@@matejbenko8268 Like mashing the common citizens with social media.
My first thought was that we could really get hurt by them. Second thought was how to bring them down. There will be a time where we'll need to defend ourselves from this kind of robots.
Unthinkable in the 1970, when C-3PO and R2-D2 was shown for the first time and a teenager(me) thought that would never happen… it goes faster than I thought.
"Boston Dynamics will not partner with those wanting to use this technology as weapons" literally the whole point of the company was to develop robots for military.
It did get them Billions from Congress.. That was the goal, to get a financial start that skyrocketed stocks.
This is called propaganda. They will be used for policing YOU.
For surveillance and load carrying, not weaponry.
@@wiley-harris-anderson Bullshit.
@@wiley-harris-anderson Sure, for that reason all robots are tested by military.
The landing on one foot consistently through the obstacle course shows some extremely good agility and balance. Even though it has taken nearly three decades. They were one of the only companies consistently trying to do this. 🇺🇲
now they dance more gracefully than i ever could :)
now they dance more gracefully than i ever could :)
now they dance more gracefully than i ever could :)
You are shitting me right do you honestly believe the company that started out by Fakin these robots has done anything other than got better at creating CGI😂
I can’t believe it perhaps these guys got bought out because the people who bought them out was nicer as they seem to be doing such an appalling job on the ISS there must be a real market for fake CGI robots and shit these days
4:38 That's terrifying.. I never thought to imagine one of these fully clothed so you can't tell it's a robot. One day we might get breaking news that Atlas has escaped the facility and is wearing a disguise 😂
This video was....Spot On.
Takes a long time to make, yet always worth watching.
Agreed.
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FACTS
The car? Yeah i agree
@@dylanscurlock9708 I
Don't know whether to laugh or cry. This is incredible. How many *small farmer/ranchers would love a Spot* with the manipulator arm? Example: You live in town; the farm is 45 miles away; it's winter. You call spot on cell phone and tell it to spread out 6 bales of hay and check the water bins. Spot calls you back with pics of the cattle and the water bins etc. and the birds eye view from its companion Eagle drone-Cam. You have saved the fuel costs and the wear and tear on the human body. Spot plugs itself back in to the solar/wind battery charger. This gasoline hungry task is currently repeated thousands of times, at least twice per week, in So. Tex. every year. One Spot could service 3 to 10 small 100 Acre +/- farms.
There goes the price of food. Smart real smart. Afraid of the snow? Or just lazy as hell?
@@leostgeorge2080 Sorry, couldn't make sense of your sarcasm. Are you saying you are for ; the price of food increasing or decreasing? It is apparent you enjoy wallowing in snow and dirt; But you insist that it have an existential purpose? What is the copyright year of the last non-fiction book you've read?
Don't we already have fully automated farms?
@@devalapar7878 Right the multi-thousand acre farms are largely automated. Yet; There are thousands of 100 acre farms that cannot afford automation. Spot and a companion drone should cost about what a new motorcycle costs. We need small farms to keep crops and livestock genetically diversified.
@@clavo3352 I don't understand your reasoning for small farms. You can have genetic diversity on big farms too. And you can no diversity on small farms.
"After years of research and millions of dollar, engineers were able to accurately reproduce the *Two drunken men carrying a sofa* " 😂
I was short on time and wanted a quick time lapse of the evolution. Thought I’ll skip to the end quickly but video was really captivating. Didn’t feel like there was time wasted to cross the 10/15 minute mark etc. Ended up watching it completely. Thank you! Keep up the good work!
I just did the same thing! 😀 What a well made video!
As battery’s improve robots like spot will defiantly become more valuable They should also consider mixing deployable legs and wheels making for more versatile speeds
Robots will use sunlight to powerful in future
@@peterparker8763 that wouldn’t provide much power, that would take quite a while to develop and you would need a huge solar array.
i mean they could use voltage boosters
@@shieldusergaming whaf
@@shieldusergaming *what
Props to him going back in time and taking videos of the early robots Boston dynamics made a true chad.
Yea
dude ru dum he jus fuobd videos from th intrnet
@@hwytang2006 Wut
@@hwytang2006 r/woosh
@@hwytang2006 r/ihadastroke
You know 90 mins of runtime for Spot sounds short, but honestly it seems really amazing it lasts that long considering how many electrical systems it's running constantly.
I love the way atlas flails when something goes wrong
SpaceX actually owns atleast 2 spots already! They operate at their Starbase facility, mostly checking the lauchpad after tests or launches.
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@R DOTTIN Last I saw that robot consisted of a mime. At first, I thought it was a parody, until I realized Elon Musk was standing right there.
serious??
@@ability5284 yep! Even have a custom SpaceX paint scheme :) they’re called Zeus and Apollo
@@thespacepeacock wow... thanks for the reply, I Wonder if they will use them on mars?? maybe
" Boston Dynamics will not partner with those wanting to use this technology as weapons" that was hilarious 😀.
А кто их будет спрашивать?
@@georgeverdi4178 I do not speak russian, I'm hispanic.
DARPA wont asking when it wants what they make
It's called propaganda. They will be used to police YOU.
@@eldruidacosmico Press #2 then...
robotics has really came so far.im excited to see whats in store for the future by boston dynamics.
Boston Dynamics are such an awesome company! I just love them so much!
WTF is wrong with you
Oh yeah, right. Me too!. I Looove B.D. They're like the family I never had.
Fun fact: SpaceX is using Spot to inspect their Starship prototypes after it lands/explodes
fun fact.....people mistakenly believe musk cares about space travel when his real goal is locking up global telecom and data with his starlink empire, hopefully getting the taxpayer to fund a lot of it.
@@embededfabrication4482 k.
@@menmenson2905 its only obvious..
Why do the robots explode? Oh, you mean-
@@fernandoferreira6293 all the prototypes are unmanned I think
Nothing could go wrong with this technology, everything is fine
Just watch out for the moment that their eye (cameras) spots turn red. Then you know that you are truly BONED !
@@johnr.lovato4280 No, that happens when something else telescopic slides out!
@@painkillerjones6232 🤣🤣🤣
This is NOT a portal like incident about to start, What are you talking about?
@@johnr.lovato4280 NANI!!??
Honestly their evolution is frankly exciting and scary as hell
"it's either a pioneering robotics company helping to kead in a technological revolution, or a sign of a coming robot apocalypse!" either way, I'm in.
I swear boston the most advanced robot company rn
Tesla bot looks cooler, but I don't think it can do as much as dancing like atlas and spot
@@insertnamehere7712 Tesla bot is all PR man . Elon knows how to hype all this nonsense.
Tesla bot is much creepier and uglier with its no face… Elon musk promised it will do “boring” or dangerous stuff for you, and some people enjoy doing that and also, he actually mentioned the possibility of it chasing you. Gives me shivers
sony's aibo robotic pet is the most realistic robot dog equipped with AI, has the ability to learn and grow over time over experience, has advanced real emotions and no two aibo are the same
Real Life Cyberdyne
It really shows how even if the tech at the time makes it seem impossible, after a long time it becomes a pioneer. It's like all those people trying to make mars bases. Seems impossible.. for now.
Lets go to the Mun?
It was within reach in the fifties to Wernher von Braun.
@@fernandoferreira6293 na
We technically have mars... in bars... just go to your nearest 711 store lol...
@@Kopie0830 Took me a second, then I understood, now I'm just disappointed in myself🫤... * I'm still chuckling about it. 🤣😎🤣
Boston Dynamics is literally real life Aperture Laboratories
Ok, the spot with a makeshift tongue sticking out the car window had me laughing.
I would love to see one of the Boston dynamics bipedal robots on Mars.
Just send all of them to mars Atlas especially
incredible for science nerds like us
honestly not a bad idea, but if something went wrong like it fell over and broke something it would be a complete waste
unfortunately these robots cannot operate on Mars. The temperature regime, the high level of radiation and the magnetized dust would incapacitate them in a few minutes, plus you would need a huge charging station or the robots would have to be equipped with a nuclear power source that would completely change their shape and weight . What can be used on Mars is the experience gained to design and build a new robot adapted to the Martian environment
@@zachsmith8664 they are tanks
Completely shocked at how for robotics have come well what they are will to share with the public. Stunning
Helps their share price, and maybe convinces new customers that they could benefit from having a reasonably affordable, reasonably reliable mature robot made by a proper company. The things are intended to work out in public anyway, not just around people with security clearances.
Did they train that dog to not bite people? They better keep it on a short leash ;-)
😂😂😂
an awesome development of robotics they did indeed - stunning to see this timelapse!
" " ...and they cheered on AI and Robot Technology with breathless idiocy .... Until there was no one left to cheer. " "
If BD wants to make the robot run as fast as a cheetah, they need to make one innovation...a flexible spine that extends when the back legs push, and contracts when the back legs pull forward.
Woah you sounds really excited in this video! Really love the energy!
The best thing about spot is how well it was made that when they did that dance video people all thought it was cgi but nope those were real robots that could move with such smooth motion.
2:05 _"...Two drunken men carrying a sofa."_ 🤭😂👍👏
It is a great job from 2005 to 2022 - increasing algorithms, engines and gyroscopes, also in 2022 we can see absolutely smooth movements of robots. But spot of 2005 was also an important milestone of robotics and should be in a museum of robotics engineering.
Forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, think human controlled weapons. Special Forces, Gulag Security etc... , replacing the U.N. Forces. If used for Evil, Evil has been at it's worst in the twentieth century. Damn.
We'll be by its side sooner than not. We're obsolete.
@@fernandoferreira6293 when is the human supremacist movement and butlerian jihad?
LoL, 30 years for this is a joke.
Those robots dances better than me 😂
“Two drunk men carrying a sofa” 😂😂 damn yeah that did get a good laugh.
10:11 "Boston Dynamics says it will not partner with those who wish to use robots as weapons" and yet they are constantly seeking contracts with the military for their robots. That line they are not wanting to cross seems to be just a very fine hazy outline in the sand.
"And just like you would expect from Boston Dynamics, Spot was also heavily abused". And that's how the machines will know what this "friendly interaction" really is 🤣
The biped has come a lot further than I thought they had... Very impressive.
And scary.
After watching those Boston Dynamic's Robot dance, all I can say is, "Those Robots really have Soul".
its from the humans programming them. They animate virtual versions of the robots dancing, and then the software of the physical robot tries to mimic the virtual one
then you have no idea whatsoever what a soul is..
this is both fascinating and scary. never saw a robot do parcour, unbelievable how fast the development is advancing
It is easy, once you know EVERY parameter of said Parcour. Problem is, the World is not like that. And war zones in particular , are changing quick. And Orientation becomes a problem VERY quick. Even weather could completely derange a robot's movement. (Soil muddy, slippery rocks, rotten wood, you get the drift). It takes MUCH MORE computing power , to prepare for "Eventualities" than a parcours, YOU created, and is EXACTLY distanced, so your Robot CAN do it. No guesswork, no unknown unknowns.
Spot can really do a great job at places too dangerous for humans. Things in crashsites, irradiated areas, or places with volatile chemicals.
Exactly what I was thinking! This cute pile of metal has opened so many opportunities for exploration and data gathering. Can't wait for what the future beholds, haha :D
Wait until they attach the new "J.A.W.S." accessory!!!!
And parties!
Get out of here, stalker.
Plot twist:flatlife is a cyborg that’s why he said “I hope he is ok”
I will be very interested to see how an AI might design its own body with these innovations as the basis.
Probably as drones because flying is mostly better than walking/running, or as sentinels from the Matrix if there are too many obstacles.
Ask Skynet
dont think any AI today could make a design better than anything boston dynamics has come up with
That is so cool. I'm glad I get to be on earth when this tech is coming to life. The parcore Atlas robot is so cool and smooth
4:49 Rainbow six siege players: “hey I’ve seen this one before!”
Yeah 😂 my first thoughts
Now consider how incredible the human body is!!!
It took millions of years to develop it that way. Still the internal communication systems are somewhat questionable Considering BD made this far in 20 years, hats off, gentlemen!
@@PhotonConductor life doesn't grow more complex over time on its own. Macro evolution is a hoax. No intermediary species exist.
Yeah, it's pretty cool. Still has some weird quirks like the food pipe and the air pipe being connected.
@@ardentcascades5907 terrible design flaw ngl
They r great 👍 ..... We need more companies like this
@ all: Remember back, Terminator 1, 1984: Kyle Reese and Sarah hiding in the Blue Cadillac after escaping from the „Technoir“ disco: Sarah: „It is not possible to produce this!“ Kyle: „Not today, but in 40 years“. 😮😮😮😮😮😮
My suggestion is to make these robots (Atlas or Spot) available as kits or plans to lower the cost to hobbyists. The reason for this is it would promote further rapid development something like what has happened with 3D printers.
You just want one, can’t blame you
The software alone probably costs tens of thousands, still going to be very expensive
@@BisexualPlagueDoctor And once they find out, the battery lasts not more than an hour and needs an hour to recharge, You need 3 of them and 2 charging stations , for a fully -covered ONE-Worker Position. And with current 5k cycles-Batteries. That's a lifetime of 1.2 years, If you run them permanently. (and nothing else degrades, which is "magical thinking").
3:54 nice shoes bro
that robot got the drip 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
@@dudemp4 But do it got that grip? 🤨😩💦
remember, boston dynamics current state is only what they are legally allowed to show to the public, in their facilities they will have unfinished models that are much more futuristic, even if only by hardware standards.
And thats what they ARE SHOWING YOU. Last video segment was in 21. 🤔 Get ready folks. Its fast approaching.
It's interesting that they tried all different forms, but are now finding success with the human shape.
This might not be as incidental. Our form was the product of continuous adaptation, i.e trials, through all our presence here. I did say was. We taking over from here. But then again, we'll always be the middlemen of nature.
@@fernandoferreira6293 Only until we can win it over, the instant we become less powerful than our creation we are gone. But of course if try enough we have the potential to win but sadly I don't think that's what we are doing.
11:35 spot was like: c'mon! Just let me charge!...
Imagine in 100 years! Love the humour in the video 😂🤣
Thanks for the video, curious evolution of robotics at Boston Dynamics
great video, you've come a long way since you started 😊
9:46 I laughed so hard at these parkour fails, it looks so human
Underscore that.
the progress would probably double in speed if boston dynamics and tesla would start to work together , thats also a scary thought ,lol ...
Thank you the production team this video is worth it to watch.
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Always watching in every Flatlife videos and still worth it to me lol. Appreciate for Flatlife :) one more: can u make evolution of Pagani lol 🗿
Someone on another video said that they cannot believe that a robot would be able to run and catch a baseball like a young kid. I had a good laugh.
"Who else has got oil." Lol, epic! 😁
The warehouse robot arm at the end looks like something that should of existed 6 or 7 years ago already. But I think the one with the 2 wheels was marvelous and should be deployed more frequently in companies.
In one of the factory I worked there was Pick, in the packaging sector.
For what purpose?
I believe there were robots like that but more like factory machine not as separate walkable robot.
@@snyder_fine_art robots don't unionize...
@@mode3763 oh they will
Spot is terrifyingly similar to the hound in Fahrenheit 451.
WERE WAITING EVERY NIGHT TO FINALLY ROAM AND INVITE
This is very interesting but also very scary. Especially if they combined this new AI technology with robotics.
New?
New?
Petman is like a real life terminator, wrap some skin around it and you’ve got a t-800
They are building terminator Belive me!!!
"Spot can also be used for custom tasks" Yea like pissing beer in a cup
"Two drunken men carrying a sofa" 😆😂🤣👍
12:26 Whoever put a tongue on Spot is a genius
Ive been watching the evolution and hard work from BD, since the begging of their KZhead channel. I remember the wires/ cables hanging from the ceiling. 👏
Damn beggars
Very educational and interesting ! Thanks for sharing !
Until your master send it to chase you down the street...
Amazing technology 👍👍👍
That dance scene at the end… OMG 😮
12:27 omg they have a tongue lol!
11:10 Me:- *Again died of laughter😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Boston Dynamic Robots dance better than me even when they're turned off.
honestly the dancing spot was the most impressive and adorable shit I have ever seen
Love this video! Like always!
plot twist:This world is a simulation managed by high tech Robots! Hahaha just kidding!🤣
nah bro I thought you were dead serious😐
@@squibbydibbles1711 🗿
@@squibbydibbles1711 damn really?
"Who else has got oil"........lol!
This is how it started with drones, which were advertised and sold as toys. They are now among the most important weapons that decide wars...
That was cool at the end, seeing the victory dance that the robots would do after they take over the world.
I am now imagining a Terminator movie where people are hunted down by dancing robots singing K-pop songs
Not gonna happen
@@andr3w_496 So they won't even bother to dance after they win? I guess that's somewhat respectful.
@@queuecee im saying that they wont take over humans
@@andr3w_496 You are right. We have to keep a positive attitude. If we don't, they've already won!
Of course someone out there will say this is an evolution of CGI
2:30 AWESOME! I WANT ONE!
Could you even imagine how complicated of cpu would be needed if a robot went from gravity to space!?! That would really be something.
Great video! Thanks a lot for making this overview of Boston Dynamics' ventures.
I think now that just one AI that can think perfectly is installed on these and more advanced robots, they can dominate the human race
Soldier, Terminator. It's terrible that once an idea gets out there, there's no stopping it. The setting of human society has no means of controlling itself
The way the warehouse robot moves around with with a flat base and little wheels reminds me of a dalek
Idk why but seeing robots fall always makes me laugh so hard, especially 11:10
It’s the funniest thing! I thinks it’s because it’s so dramatic, they just go immobile when they realize they’re going down 🤭
That had my laughing aswell..😂🤣
Fear does manifest in this manner.
8:30, anyone seen Monsters of Man 😂😳
Lol, who wrote the script for this? "In 2021 the humanoid robot could finish a whole parkour!"
"watch a cool video about robotics..!", they said... "it will be fascinating..!", they said... i need a drink or seven..!
I'm amazed at what can be done nowadays!
Imagine robots ten or twenty years from now. The ones we're seeing now will be like looking at a Fort Model T.