Unboxing Boston Dynamics' DARPA-Ready Atlas Robot

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 8, 2013 @06:48AM from the bigdog-is-creepy-enough dept.

mikejuk writes with some robot eye candy, in the form of this excerpt: "If you think its cool to video the unboxing of your latest mobile phone — think again. Unboxing a robot has a lot more going for it and reaches a whole new level of sci-fi realized. The Atlas robot is a standard humanoid robot to be used by competitors in the DARPA Robotics challenge. Built by Boston Dynamics, it is in the same line as Petman and BigDog. It is now being delivered to the labs that will take part and the temptation to make an unboxing video has been irresistible They arrive in plain of wooden crates as if they were auto parts. Next it is unwrapped and lifted out of its packing case using a crane. It looks black and threatening — just like a sci-fi movie but watch the videos and see."

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Unimpressed by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-08 06:51 · Score: 5, Funny

If the robot is so advanced, why can't it unbox itself?
1. Re:Unimpressed by ArsonSmith · 2013-09-08 07:42 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Why does it even need a box? If it's an advanced robot all it should need is a plane ticket and some cab money.
  
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It would be a lot more impressive by msobkow · 2013-09-08 07:14 · Score: 3, Funny

... if you pushed a button and it smashed it's way out of it's own crate, stood up, and roared. :)

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