Last week, we were impressed by a video of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robots <a href="https://pictojam.com/p/robot-parkour" class="on">running a parkour course</a>. If that video gave you a sense of dread about the capabilities of our new robot overlords, rest assured that it took a lot of practice and crashes before they got it right. Witness this:

The Tweet is a collection of clips from a longer video that explains what goes into programming a robot's parkour moves. The engineers spend a lot of time picking up robots and repairing them. I bet they're heavy!

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