Boston Dynamics' Atlas bot is dead and its replacement is horrifying yet fascinating in equal measure

We mere humans are destined, one day, to be no more. For our robot friends however, death comes in the form of retirement, and Boston Dynamics has announced that its original Atlas robot has finally been put out to greener pastures, or in this case, probably boxed up in a crate at the back of the lab.

The good news is, there's a replacement. And the bad news is, it's the sort of thing that haunts my post-apocalyptic dreams at night.

Boston Dynamics first revealed its Atlas humanoid robot back in 2013...