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DARPA's Atlas Walking Over Randomness

Posted by Unknown on from the wait'll-it-finds-a-gun dept.

mikejuk writes "Considering how long we have been trying to solve the problem, a robot walking is mostly amusing. Atlas is an impressive robot, evoking the deepest fears of sci fi. Watch as one of the DARPA challenge teams makes Atlas walk, unaided, on randomness. This video of Atlas was created by the Florida Institute For Human and Machine Cognition robotics team. It shows Atlas walking across a random collection of obstacles. Notice that even though it looks as if Atlas is supported by a tether, it isn't — as proved when it falls over at the end."

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  1. Big dog recent video by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 4, Funny

    The most recent Big Dog video shows that this is a (largely) solved issue for quadrupeds. The middle of the video shows it walking over stumps, navigating a swingset, and so on.

    Still, "four legs good, two legs better". Or so they say...

  2. Impressive by Brucelet · · Score: 3, Funny

    The summary is an impressive bit of (unattributed) quoting from the article, evoking, the deepest fears of comma abuse.

  3. "evoking the deepest fears of sci fi" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    hardly...
    It might freak the cat out in a similar vein to a vaccuum cleaner but wathcing the video makes me feel worried *for* (not of) Atlas

    I'm sure it's an amazing technical achievement but just highlights how much further we have yet to go.

  4. Something missing.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't the random obstacles include human skulls?