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The Choreographer system enables real-time analysis of Sparkles' physical movements, allowing the robot to adapt to environmental constraints such as slippery floors or nearby people, ensuring it does not lose its balance.

This announcement comes a day after the retirement of the original hydraulic Atlas, marking a significant evolution in the company's approach to humanoid robotics.

Atlas, known for its human-like agility and a series of viral videos showcasing its dance moves and athletic prowess, is stepping down to make way for newer technologies.

Spot's newfound linguistic talents include answering questions and opening its "mouth" for a more natural conversation. It has also adopted multiple personas, such as a Shakespearean time traveler, a teenager, and a fashionable butler.

In Boston Dynamics' latest video, their humanoid robot Atlas is shown hopping around a mock construction site doing manual labor, tossing tool bags to the worker, and building a little pathway to bridge a gap between itself and the worker.

Boston Dynamics has announced a new robot called Stretch, which is designed to move goods in warehouses. The robot can move up to 800 boxes weighing up to 23 kg each in an hour, and can also work up to eight hours without recharging.

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