Oh.
Those guys/girls.
Mark Geary writes:
Robots doing parkour…
RUN!
Tag Archives: parkour
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot – it does parkour now. To wit:
We created the manoeuvres using new techniques that streamline the development process. First, an optimisation algorithm transforms high-level descriptions of each manoeuvre into dynamically-feasible reference motions. Then Atlas tracks the motions using a model predictive controller that smoothly blends from one manoeuvre to the next.
…and then kills all humans.
Previously: Warehousebot
Freefalling
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The cartilage pulverising downhill jump course of Heaven’s Gate at Tianman Mountain in China – a 999 step, 45 degree descent that freerunner Calen Chan completes with a GoPro camera clamped in his mouth.
Player One
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Tracked by an overhead drone, Bulgarian freerunner and daredevil Ilko ‘Ill’ Iliev does his thing, eating up the (very impressive) scenery in the style of Grand Theft Auto 2.
Full screen for best effect.
Music: ‘Bad King Kong’ by The Derevolutions
Professional freerunner Jason Paul uses his impressive parkour skills to make his connection at Munich airport.
Free Maiming
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Step Outside
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Bulut Şahin’s deftly edited buck leppin’ travelogue of Turkish freerunners Team Acro.
Song: Step Out by José González
Strobe
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBfeYxTUB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ke_nlon_Tc
A figure dressed in a flashing LED studded suit performs an apparently impossible parkour routine in (and above) the streets of Kuala Lumpur by night.
The sequence – part of a Lexus promo series called Amazing In Motion – was achieved using a series of acrobats and martial artists in identical suits, suspended in elaborate rigs operated by a crew of hundreds.
A team of freerunners buck-lep their way though the Berlin suburbs in slowmo. Director Frank Sauer sez:
During their three days journey, the freerunners and camera crew got lost more than once on the endless highways outside of Berlin Brandenburg. We also realized that the most interesting abandoned places are not only well concealed, but are well guarded by security and police. Ignoring those signs of warning the next days were packed with thrilling moments of spectacular runs and tricks but also, getting chased by ghost hunters at midnight, and getting arrested by the police while shooting a drone shot with smoke grenades on top of the tallest building in the area.
Roof Run
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A stomach swirling POV freerun across the beams of an unfinished Russian roof by 3RUN parkour athlete Shade Ziat.
Fullscreen and HD for the full breakfast-threatening effect.