Kudos firstly to Boston Dynamics marketing team who fully understood from the very beginning the visceral impact of video. Seeing the
robot ‘Atlas’ in context, supporting a man at work, effectively replacing
a man at work is an unnerving experience - they are getting remarkably good a performing agile, manual work and can probably already do it better than a human if you take endurance, sleep and performance degradation due to tiredness into account. One of many companies building robots, for one of many countries
increasing robot installation capacity. Revolution in white collar work, is being matched by a revolution in blue collar work.