You can’t lift a fridge with just your hands. Your whole body needs to conform to its shape, and bear the load between your arms and torso. Here, @BostonDynamics' Atlas uses proprioception to manage the whole-body interaction and adapt to a shifting 100+ lb load. Enabling this type of high performance manipulation is exactly why we walked away from what was arguably the world’s best implementation of MPC for humanoids, and shifted entirely to RL without looking back. This level of whole-body controls is a fundamental building block of physical intelligence and key to the value proposition of humanoids. More technical details in: Blog: https://bostondynamics.com/blog/training-a-humanoid-robot-for-hard-work/ Behind the scenes video: https://youtu.be/xKK5ze3FukQ