Google's Atlas robot shows off 'Karate Kid' pose — minus the crane kick

Google-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics is building its bipedal Atlas robot to be a bit more graceful.

While past footage of the 330-pound, six-foot-two-inch robot showed it awkwardly scrambling over debris, it recently demonstrated that it can balance on one leg while moving its arms — and even strike a pose the way actor Ralph Macchio does in "The Karate Kid." Whether the machine can pull off a crane kick, however, remains a mystery.

Boston Dynamics has developed several of the robots as "government-furnished equipment" for a robotics challenge program managed by the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Check out a few of Atlas's moves in the following video, uploaded to YouTube by Boston Dynamics.