Because a new and improved SpotMini human-hunting quadruped robot wasn’t enough for us to not be thankful for this holiday season, here’s a just-released video from Boston Dynamics of the latest version of their Atlas humanoid robot doing a little light parkour, then finishing with a backflip. Admittedly, impressive. Just the technology though, the only backflip I’d like to see that robot do is into the deep end of an empty swimming pool. “Or a volcano.” Yes! “Or into a vat of acid.” Yeah! “Or right onto your naked lap.” Yes! Wait what?

Keep going for the video.

Source: Geekologie – Boston Dynamics’ New Atlas Robot Can Do Backflips