Atlas jogged: humanoid robot can now run through a park all by itself

It's taken three years for Boston Dynamics' robot to be able to jog unaided outside, but now it can run across grass and leap over logs

With their advanced sensors, hiding from robots has never been an option, but running from their often plodding frames has been, until now. Atlas can now run after you.

Three years ago former Google robotics outfit Boston Dynamics demonstrated its Terminator-like humanoid Atlas robot running through a forest tethered to a machine. Now that same hauntingly human robot can now run across and navigate uneven terrain unaided, bounding over the trickiest of obstacles " such as a log.