DARPA Introduces Atlas Humanoid Robot

    While this is not the Terminator, but, apparently, his coming is not far off. So far, this Atlas is a new 2-meter humanoid robot, created for the competition of the US Department of Defense. The car, weighing 130 kilograms, is called "one of the most advanced humanoid robots built to date." It consists of 28 hydraulic couplings and perfectly balances on “legs”.



    It was made by Boston Dynamics, a company already noted by the Petman robots (anthropomorphic robot) and AlphaDog (robotic dog) created for DARPA. But if they were limited to military and industrial applications, Atlas will be handed over to “civilian” researchers for programming and work.

    Atlas was launched as part of the DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge, an open competition launched last October. His goal is to create a humanoid robot that would work in disaster situations (for example, in Fukushima). Part of this competition is writing software for Atlas. Now participating teams can already test control programs in a real environment, since previously only a simulator was available.

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