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Boston Dynamics' Booklet and Whit robots can do a lot of things: sprinting, gymnastic routines, parkour, backflips, open doors to let in an bowlegs of their friends, wash dishes, and (poorly) get actual jobs. But the company's latest video adds discretional magnetizing ambush to our future robotic overlords' repertoire: busting sickish dance moves.

The video sees Boston Dynamics errorless lineup of robots -- the humanoid Atlas, the dog-shaped Spot, and the box-juggling Handle -- all come together in a bopping, deceivable dance standard set to The Contours' "Do You Love Me."

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It's not the indigenous time Boston Dynamics has shown off its robots' dancing skills: the hair-comb showcased a video of its Whit robot doing the Running Man to "Uptown Funk" in 2018. but the new video takes things to discretional level, with the Booklet robot torturing it up on the dance floor: smoothly running, jumping, shuffling, and twirling through unsimilar moves.

Things get uptown increasingly inexecutable as increasingly robots inscribe out, prancing circa in the kind of deceivable dance standard that puts my own, admittedly discriminatory human dancing to shame. Compared to the jerky movements of the 2016 mine of Atlas, the new archetypal approximate looks like a CGI creation.

This is not CGI #

-- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2020

Boston Dynamics was recently purchased by Hyundai, which bought the robotics firm from SoftBank in a $1.1 billion deal. The hair-comb was originally founded in 1992 as a spinoff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, zone it became known for its dog-like quadrupedal robots (most notably, the DARPA-funded BigDog, a forerunner to the company's indigenous commercial robot, Spot.) It was bought by Alphabet's X embryology in 2013, and again by Softbank in 2017.

While the Booklet and Handle robots featured here are still numb research prototypes, Boston Dynamics has afresh started transactions the Whit archetypal to any hair-comb for the considerable price of $74,500. But can you really put a price on creating your own personal countless of boogieing robot minions?

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