Watch Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot evolve from a stagger to a sprint

Atlas Shrugged may be the name of Ayn Rand's veritable doorstop of a novel, but no-one is shrugging indifferently when it comes to Boston Dynamic's amazing Atlas robot. For the past five years, Atlas has lived up to A.I. expert Gary Bradski's 2013 statement that "a new species, Robo sapiens, [is] emerging." Designed to carry out missions like search and rescue -- and far, far more -- the bipedal robot has remained on the front line of cutting edge robotics since its unveiling. Standing 6-foot-2-inches and tipping the scale at 330 pounds, the first-gen Atlas makes its public debut in mid-2013. Although Boston Dynamics is the name most associated with Atlas, it's not the only group which is part of its creation.