"Atlas" a Robot, by Pentagon Team

ATLAS is 6 ft and 2 inces, it weighs 330 pounds. Its primary purpose is said to be joining in relief efforts particularly in those places where involvement of human beings is lethal or downright impossible. Boston Dynamics, who built the ATLAS body, say that the robot is strong and coordinated enough to climb using its hands and feet, as well as pick its way in congested spaces. The people who have been called in to work on the robot are tasked with programming it to interact in the most efficient way it can be made to. DARPA has released a video which shows ATLAS walking, avoiding obstacles, withstanding brute force applied at its torso and even climbing the stairs. The teams working on this project will have to prove that the ATLAS they have programmed is capable of efficiently working in the field.

Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA,.the department is working on robots that it can develop to provide disaster relief and humanitarian aid, they’ve brought in researchers from MIT and other major institutions as participants of their Virtual Robotics Challenge. Participants have been given access to the ATLAS robot.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was treated to a firsthand look at a life-size robot known as Atlas earlier this week, where it has been deemed to be the most recent experiment by the Pentagon’s high-tech researchers. We first talked about Atlas last year, only to have it undergo an inglorious debut as it broke its ankle in October 2013. Well, thankfully the Atlas robot did not experience any snafus this time around in the presence of a VIP.

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