Does anyone ever get the feeling that Boston Dynamics is made up of a bunch of over-achievers? Like they were the kids who showed up to the seventh grade science fair, scanned the room, found your flower in a plastic cup and propped up their six foot wide fully revolving model of the solar system right next to it just because. Well, now, as you pat yourself on the back for being able to operate your $2,000 Facebook machine, just know that this still exists:

That would be the Pet-Proto, cousin to PETMAN. Say what you will about it being “amazing,” or whatever, but this thing just looks and sounds like a drunk teenager trying not to wake his parents in the middle of the night.

We’ve written about Atlas/PETMAN before, as the headless automaton is trying to stomp its way to a $2 million prize – and really, what could stop it? – and the title for best war robot in DARPA’s Robotics Challenge (Atlas is funded by DARPA too). The point is to see how said robots respond in disaster situations, in which our mechanical friends may be able to lend a helping hand in real life disaster scenarios. How could they navigate a terrain decimated by who knows what? Obviously this video shows only Pet-Proto’s ability to climb a high step, step down from it safely and independently circumvent a large gap in the ground in the most controlled of environments, but what is all terrain if not steps, falls and gaps?

We’ve seen it do pushups (previous link), so I’ll be excited to see how it does removing rubble, digging, pushing and opening, with hopefully a lot more strength possible than what humans are capable of. It could be an all-purpose rescue machine. The world could use one of those right now.