Share with friends and circle of friends with wechat scanning QR code < / P > < p > on August 18, Boston power, a robot startup, released a new video on Tuesday, showing its new capability of biped robot Atlas - Parkour p> < p > the video has the typical style of Boston power company. Two atlas show impressive gymnastics movements, including turning, jumping, etc. of course, there are almost falling mistakes. In addition, Boston Dynamics conducted an unusually transparent assessment of atlas capabilities, and engineers explained the efforts behind the realization of these capabilities p> < p > as Boston Dynamics has said before, Atlas is still essentially a research project, a cutting-edge machine that helps company engineers design better control and perception systems. Benjamin Stephens, control director of atlas, said: "at the practical level, Atlas is our research and development platform." The research includes many gymnastics and Parkour movements, which are often used by the company to attract public attention p> < p > however, many roboticists criticized Boston power for misleading the public about the capabilities of its machines. The company's videos are really impressive, but they are also well structured demonstrations. These carefully planned actions require a lot of behind the scenes efforts and adjustments to complete. As Stephens explained in the behind the scenes video, you can't let atlas do things by yourself with a finger. "It's not that the robot magically decides to Parkour. It's a carefully choreographed action, much like skateboarding video or Parkour video," he said p> < p > in an accompanying blog post, Boston Dynamics engineers gave more details about the changes that have taken place over the years. They pointed out that in the past demonstrations, these activities were basically blind. Only when the environment remains unchanged, the robot can move successfully. But now atlas relies more on its own perception to navigate, which means that it has less pre programming than before p> < p > this blog post wrote: "in this iteration of parkour, Atlas is adjusting its behavior according to what it sees. This means that engineers do not need to pre program jumping actions for all possible platforms and gaps that robots may encounter. " p> < p > compared with the demonstration actions in the past, the latest video is noteworthy that the action of atlas sometimes even looks a bit like human. For example, in the video, Atlas jumps onto the platform, shakes for a second, and then regains its balance. This is a dynamic response that cannot be pre programmed, but it is better for it( Small) < / P > < p >