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

    Shouldn't the random obstacles include human skulls?