The Future- Boston Dynamics, eVTOLS, Helicopters in Space
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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On this special edition of “60 Minutes” presents NASA made history on the red planet in 2021. Anderson Cooper learns from the Ingenuity team what it was like to land on Mars and how they flew a helicopter in space. An inside look at Boston Dynamics, a cutting-edge robotics company. Anderson Cooper reports on eVTOLs, flying vehicles that may one day be the answer to bumper-to-bumper traffic.
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| 0:50.8 | Tonight on this special edition of 60 minutes presents Looking Toward the Future. |
| 1:00.7 | Nine years of work, seven minutes a terror. He's talking about the descent and landing of the |
| 1:06.7 | Perseverance Rover on Mars. Execute entry to sudden landing on her own. And there goes the |
| 1:12.3 | descent stage. Big sigh of relief. I almost claps over this console. Part of its mission to drop |
| 1:18.0 | off ingenuity. A mini helicopter that would take off and navigate in the Martian atmosphere. |
| 1:23.8 | Much tenassas delight. So here's a little bit of a jump. I mean that's incredible. |
| 1:33.2 | There's a lot of incredible things going on at Boston Dynamics. A cutting edge robotics company |
| 1:40.5 | at 60 minutes has been trying to get inside of for years. This is inside Atlas's brain, |
| 1:45.8 | and it shows its perception system. It's going to use that vision to adjust itself as it goes |
| 1:50.4 | running over these blocks. You are in control. This is called an EV tall, a clunky acronym for |
| 2:03.5 | electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. You really feel the wind up here. |
| 2:08.9 | In the near future, an entire industry hopes to have these electric vehicles available |
| 2:14.0 | so you can soar over bumper to bumper traffic and some for about the cost of an Uber. |
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