Oh No--Those Boston Dynamics Robots Can Now Do 'Parkour.' See for Yourself

Amid this week's depressing news about looming, climate-change-induced disaster, perhaps we can take solace in the possibility of fast-moving, unstoppable robots getting us first. Earlier this year, the SoftBank-owned outfit taunted us with a clip of its SpotMini robot opening a door with its claw-like arm (positioned where the head should be, for extra nightmare points.) Then it showed us Atlas, its more humanoid-ish creation,going for a jog. The one ray of light in that jogging video was the fact that Atlas needed to stop running before jumping over a log. So, come the uprising, will logs be our friends?