At the recent CES 2026 tech show in Las Vegas, Boston Dynamics showed off the latest version of its advanced Atlas humanoid robot, a machine that it’s been working on for more than a decade.
The robot strolled onto the stage with such a natural gait that it must have had many audience members wondering if the team behind the robot had somehow managed to squeeze a human inside. But it was, in fact, 100% humanoid robot.
At what appeared to be a side event at last week’s tech show, Boston Dynamics took some time out to entertain a small group of onlookers by making the Atlas robot perform a backflip.
A video (below) of the stunt shows the small group of attendees counting down as Atlas prepares to take on the challenge. But the backflip wasn’t a 100% success …
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As you can see, while Atlas manages to make a complete midair rotation and land on its feet, the landing isn’t clean and the robot stumbles briefly before righting itself. It also loses the cap for the gripper on its right hand as it returns to terra firmer with something of a clatter.
While it wasn’t a perfect landing (perhaps attributable to what looks like a slippery floor), it was still impressive how the robot managed to quickly correct itself to prevent a more calamitous touchdown. The recovery demonstrates some high level computing smarts, with the robot’s multitude of joints able to move at lightning speed to keep Atlas on its feet.
Those who follow the work of Massachusetts-based Boston Dynamics will recall that this isn’t the first time Atlas has executed a backflip. A much earlier version of the bipedal bot nailed the same maneuver eight years ago, though it did so from a higher starting point, giving it a little more time and space to complete the move. And more recently, Atlas performed the maneuver while wearing a Santa suit.
As for this latest effort, well, it looked like part fun and part demonstration of the robot’s ability to coordinate complex movements at speed. No, it doesn’t tell us a great deal about Atlas’s suitability for tasks in places like factories and warehouses, but Boston Dynamics has already released videos demonstrating how its robot could be deployed in such settings.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
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"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.