Will the Headless Ape Robot Win the DARPA Challenge?

Posted by timothy on Friday August 23, 2013 @07:58PM from the don't-make-robo-simian-angry dept.

New submitter pausz42 writes "The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Stanford University are promoting RoboSimian, a simian-inspired robot able to face environments which are hostile for men. In the DARPA Robotics Challenge the selected teams have to develop an autonomous robot able to get into a car, drive it to a disaster site and perform hazardous activities. While this prototype is the only one that that doesn't have a humanoid shape (and it's quite creepy, since it does not have a head), it seems that its three fingered limbs are better fitted for some of the difficult tasks required by the DARPA challenge."

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Will the Headless Ape Robot Win the DARPA Challenge?

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