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Snopes Debunker - Rumors of robots showing off martial arts skills, Disney World moving from Orlando to New Orleans, and what Ron DeSantis saw at Gitmo

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Today: Rumors of robots showing off martial arts skills, Disney World moving from Orlando to New Orleans, and what Ron DeSantis saw at Gitmo

Is Video of a 'Fighting' Boston Dynamics Robot Real?

On April 29, 2023, a TikTok account shared a video clip supposedly showing a robot doing a backflip and demonstrating martial arts fighting moves.


The robot appears strikingly similar to Atlas, a humanoid robot created by Boston Dynamics, a robotics design company. A concerned Twitter user wrote, "Boston Dynamics robots now have martial arts and fighting skills. What could go wrong…"


Snopes reporter Damakant Jayshi looked into the video's authenticity.

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