Enlarge (credit: Archaeological Park of Pompeii) The nearby volcano blackened the sky and swallowed the city in clouds of ash; centuries later, robot dogs now prowl the ruins, guarding the city’s dead against the ravages of time. That’s not a movie plot. It’s what’s actually happening at the 2, 000-year-old Roman ruins of Pompeii, in […]
Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ humanoid research platform, is all scratched up after some parkour practice. [credit: Boston Dynamics ] New Boston Dynamics video alert! The robot developer and YouTube sensation is giving us another peek at its robot-building efforts, this time by having its humanoid robotics research platform, Atlas, do some more parkour. Besides releasing a […]