The savvy marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major robotics news cycles last week. As I write this, the sub-40 second video is steadily approaching five million views. The accompanying video was a celebration of the older Atlas’ journey from DARPA research project to an impressively nimble bipedal ’bot.

Sanctuary AI often isn’t mentioned in the same breath as humanoid robotics firms like Boston Dynamics, Agility, Figure and 1X, but the Canadian company

Boston Dynamics has launched the new Atlas robot as the firm focuses on fall recovery and integrating humanoid robots into operations for agility and minimal disruptions.