I watched (and even more so heard) his great, great, grandfather hop around in Raibert's lab next door to ours at CMU in 1983. A fellow freshman who worked with

I watched (and even more so heard) his great, great, grandfather hop around in Raibert's lab next door to ours at CMU in 1983. A fellow freshman who worked with him came in to the lab one day with a four inch tall wind up carnival toy that does flips. He said to us that their upgraded $10m pogo stick would soon do flips - and he was correct. Of course my thought at the time was "how do they get funding for this nonsense?" But to see how far Atlas has come in these 40 years is just fucking mind blowing.