🤖 Atlas learned to flip — after crashing first
Boston Dynamics released footage of Atlas nailing a run-up roundoff into a backflip, plus the wipeouts along the way. Real training, real falls.
It’s the final stress test of the research Atlas. The secret sauce is zero-shot transfer: train in simulation, deploy to hardware without tuning. Hence the flips—and the natural gait.
Production Atlas is coming: 56 DoF, tactile hands. Hyundai plans factory deployment by 2028, assembly tasks by 2030.