Hyundai wants to let you go where the robots are. When Hyundai bought robot maker Boston Dynamics last year, we weren't sure what to expect from the pair. At CES 2022, the automaker's intentions for the cutting-edge robotics tech became a lot clearer, as it outlined a vision for the metaverse in which robots could be used to bridge the physical and virtual worlds. The concept of the metaverse, essentially a virtual social space, gained traction in 2021 thanks to Facebook parent company Meta embracing it so wholeheartedly. And with the metaverse hailed as the next internet, you can bet that every tech company is working out how it'll both harness the space and contribute to it.

The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger is famous for his hip-snaking sorcery on stage, but the lead singer may have been shown up by Boston Dynamic robot'Spot' in a new video. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the British band's'Tattoo You' album, Boston Dynamics' engineers taught Spot to dance and lip-sync like Jagger in the'Start Me Up' music video. The company also trained three other Spot robots to recreate the moves of fellow band members Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts. During the video, the lead Spot moves its long neck to mimic the motions Jagger makes with his arms and the robot also opens its mouth to lip-sync along with the Rockstar. The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger is famous for his hip-snaking sorcery on stage, but the lead singer may have been shown up by Boston Dynamic robot'Spot' in a new video The veteran British band first began performing in 1962 and are the first to score a number one album on the British charts across six different decades.

Boston Dynamics has released two incredible videos of its famous robotic dog, Spot, pulling off some very impressive dance moves. The first clip shows seven Spot robots performing a highly choreographed dance in union to the music of South Korean K-pop sensation BTS. In a second bit of footage released by the Boston-based firm Spot is seen meeting and showing the boy band its competent dance moves. Boston Dynamics said the videos are'in celebration' of its full acquisition by South Korean motor company Hyundai, which was announced last week. Funky: Seven units of the robotic dog Spot are seen performing a variety of impressive moves to K-pop band BTS's music in a new video released by Boston Dynamics In time with the music, the seven Spot's arms shoot out into a fluid series of elaborate patterns In the first video, the seven Spots are dancing to the band's 2020 song'IONIQ: I'm On It'.

At least one future is here right now. The prankster art / marketing collective MSCHF recently spent $74,500 to purchase a Spot robo-dog from Boston Dynamics. It mounted a Tippmann 98 paintball gun on its back and is allowing people around the world to remotely control the bot via their phones in an art gallery filled with its own work for two minutes at a time. MSCHF is calling it Spot's Rampage, and the event is happening on February 24th at 1PM ET. When killer robots come to America they will be wrapped in fur, carrying a ball.

A robot dog from Boston Dynamics is now officially available to purchase. Spot, as the machine has been dubbed, will cost $74,500 (approximately £60,000). The canine droid is only available to customers in the United States at the moment, after they make a $1,000 deposit. It is capable of climbing stairs and crossing rough terrain, with the company sending the mechanical pooch into dangerous environments to carry payloads from place to place or collect data from the site. Users can control spot through its controller, which "easy access" to the robot's body posing, walking gaits, obstacle avoidance, and local navigation. Spot can also be set to follow predefined routes.

Enterprise software news isn't usually how we'd start off your morning, but in a world where remote work is more common than ever, Google's new partnership with Parallels is worth noting. The virtualization company is best known for making Windows software work on Macs, but now it's going to do the same thing for Google's cloud-connected Chrome OS. More information is due in the "coming months," before the partnership launches this fall, but if the only thing keeping your organization away from Chrome OS is access to Microsoft Office and other apps then that's about to change. We've seen Boston Dynamics' four-legged robotic dog, Spot, help triage patients with COVID-19, hold the door for a fellow bot, herd sheep and more. But until now, Spot was only available under short-term lease in Boston Dynamics' Early Adopter Program.

I love all those real life robot videos out there from Boston Dynamics, they are simply a marvel to behold. The technology these days involved in robotics is stunning and even a bit creepy but one thing is for certain these robots aren't going away anytime soon! One thing that that I always found funny are the videos where the humans are fucking with the robots to test their durability and balance, pushing them over and just basically making them look like complete fools. Well this latest video from the Youtube channel "Corridor" sure does hit the spot when we get a glimpse of a robot who's just plain had enuff!! The VFX wizards behind this video have got people out there seeing the rise of robots in our modern culture in a whole new way- check this amazing shit out!!

It's the undisputed heavyweight champion of AI held up as proof of machines hell-bent on the destruction of humanity. In my experience seeing Atlas do parkour and backflips, and four-legged Spot robots get pushed around by humans, Boston Dynamics is a close second. These robots fascinate and terrify people. If facial recognition software and Amazon's Alexa are held up as popular examples of surveillance capitalism, Boston Dynamics videos are usually shoved in my face by people afraid of these robots' mobility and physical prowess. This is partially due to the advanced robotics and unique design, and partially due to the success of a YouTube campaign over the course of the past six months in which each video sucks up millions of views.

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?

After dropping a stunning "Parkour" video for its humanoid Atlas robot earlier today, Boston Dynamics followed up with this more subdued look at a commercial application for its technology. In a video similar to lab tests we've seen before, this sensor-laden Spot robot (there's even one in its "hand" that you can see it using above, Watcher-style) took a stroll around a couple of construction sites while carrying a pack to survey human compliance work progress. In June, president Marc Raibert said the company had 10 prototypes built already ahead of sales next year and this one looks like it's ready to go. The video's description indicates these will be released in the second half of 2019, so if you'd like to start doing some extra cardio now then that would be good. Richard's been tech-obsessed since first laying hands on an Atari joystick.