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Boston Dynamics Atlas robot: a full history
Goodbye for now, Atlas.
That ill-advised practice continues in the company's latest video, showcasing its next generation Atlas droid, a bipedal bot capable of striding through snow, picking up boxes, opening doors, and — by the looks of things — one day murdering humans. The team released a video this week of its Atlas, a bipedal humanoid bot originally developed by Google-owned Boston Mechanics with government funding back in 2013, performing a set of activities that require "whole-body coordinated motions." The contest invited researchers from universities and companies across the county to design and build the best humanoid robotic systems they could, for the purpose of diaster response (think the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in the wake of the 2011 Japanese tsunami).
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