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by nl 2197 days ago
Yes.

Here's Boston Dynamic's robot doing Parkour and gymnastics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBBaNYex3E

It's not national level gymnastics but it's better co-ordinated than most humans.

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I was aware of the Boston Dynamics robots, but it always seemed to me that they move very slowly compared to walking/running humans. I suppose that may just be a precaution on their part, the jumping and gymnastics are certainly impressive otherwise.
It's not even AI - all the moves are a pre-programmed sequence. That's something Hollywood puppeteers could do 40 years ago...
This is both correct and incorrect.

Boston Dynamics use control-systems style robotic control. This is different to ML-style control where the system learns to perform tasks.

But that's different to "pre-programmed sequence". They don't program the individual servo movements for each movement - instead they give it the motions to perform and the control-systems balance the robot automatically.

(This is what the OP implied by the word "algorithms" anyway right?)