Tech & Science Daily: Boston Dynamics’ backflipping robot shows off new parkour routine

Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot, Atlas, has been showing off its new clambering skills doing high-skilled parkour.

Footage released from the tech firm shows Atlas leaping over obstacles, doing back-flips and even falling flat on its face during practice runs.

The robot stands about a metre and a half tall, weighs 86kg, uses hydraulics and battery-powered electric motors for movement, and has three on-board computers.

Aspirin is being trialled as part of a potential new treatment for an aggressive form of breast cancer.

Researchers hope the over-the-counter tablets could work well when combined with immunotherapy for patients with triple negative breast cancer, which affects 8,000 British women every year.

Experts are calling for research to focus on diseases of the airways to help treat patients with long Covid.

The International Group of Airways Diseases, says symptoms of long Covid can include extreme tiredness, shortness of breath, chest pain or tightness, and range from joint pain to depression and anxiety.

T-Mobile says hackers stole more than 8 million customers’ personal data, ageing cuttlefish ‘can remember the details of last week’s dinner’, sight risk fear for children of mothers with diabetes, and, new prehistoric ‘Hobbit’ creature is among three post-dinosaur discoveries.

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