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Amazing robot gymnast

I wasn’t expecting a whole lot from this video of a robotic gymnast doing a routine on the high bar, but holy cow! I audibly gasped at the 33-second mark and again at 57 seconds.

Looks like a home-built, just some guy in his garage. The robot has learned some new tricks since that video was made. Here’s a quintuple backflip landing:

A double twist that it didn’t quite land:

And it does floor exercises as well…here’s a double back handspring:

(via @moth)