Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Meet Atlas, an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics, demonstrating its ability to run through the...


Meet Atlas, an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics, demonstrating its ability to run through the woods.
This version needs the ‘power tether’ but the team is working on one that doesn’t, which would allow for a whole lot more freedom.

Sort of exciting and scary ;)

Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/science/atlas-a-humanoid-robot-takes-a-walk-in-the-woods.html?_r=0

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5 comments:

  1. Sam Collett18 August 2015 at 22:31

    Looks like a tail. I can imagine a battery powered one may not last too long

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  2. Lacerant Plainer19 August 2015 at 00:39

    I was watching the new movie Chappie. We need Asimov's three laws stat!

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  3. Sam Collett19 August 2015 at 01:45

    Laws are written by humans, who are imperfect and therefore will be fallible. They can be twisted and stretched under different interpretations and situations

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  4. Mark Kilby19 August 2015 at 02:34

    As I always suspected robotkind wants for the same things we do, the simple pleasures in life like running wild and free through the woods, just you, mother nature, and your power supply.

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  5. G. Thomas Edwards19 August 2015 at 08:16

    No... this is scary... https://youtu.be/DXtMgGCh2aI

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