Dancing robots so agile and fast, they start talk of doom for humans on Twitter

Boston Dynamics, a company famous for its work in robotics, and one that was recently taken over by South Korean tech giant, Hyundai, has been creating ripples with its groundbreaking work over the past few years. In the video, Boston Dynamics' robots including humanoid Atlas, dog-inspired Spot and Handle, are seen dancing with human-like precision to the 2-minute routine. The more relevant fear though is that Boston Dynamics was recently acquired by Hyundai, a company that has close ties to the South Korean Military and is known to create multipurpose robots for them. While Hyundai claims that its purchase of Boston Dynamics for over $1 Billion is to ensure the development of service and logistics robots, including humanoid robots for jobs like “caregiving for patients at hospitals”, critics say its real areas of interest could include autonomous driving and smart factories. In the video, these dancing robots from Boston Dynamics are not only showing extremely good motor skills -- possibly even the best we have seen in robots so far -- but also advanced use of machine learning to be able to learn such complex dance moves and dish out the dance routine in a very human-like way.