2013

Atlas, the rescue humanoid

July 11, 2013

DARPA and Boston Dynamics unveil Atlas for a rescue robot competition created after Fukushima, where wheeled robots could not get past the rubble. The program manager compares the robot to a one-year-old child.

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Atlas in 2013. Photo: DARPA. Public domain

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