Another Round With ATLAS, DARPA’s Most Unsettling Humanoid Robot Yet

Our first substantial look at ATLAS : DARPA andBoston Dynamics sophisticated humanoid robotthat will compete in the upcoming Robotics Challenge left us a short concerned about how quickly our cyborg - dominated time to come is approach . But thismore in - depth lookat the hardware and technology that make ATLAS so eerily lifelike gratefully ends up being more engrossing than terrifying .

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No matter how it fare in the upcoming Robotics Challenge , ATLAS is without a dubiety a bad whole tone forward in the development and refining of modern robotics . And who knows , maybe our cautious optimism is without merit , and what we ’re actually looking at here is the great grandfather of the cyborg Butler we ’ve all been hoping for . [ IEEE Spectrum ]