It's PETMAN And he's headed straight for us!
If you fear the robot apocalypse, perhaps your day would be much
improved if you just moved on. Boston Dynamics’ PETMAN robot, developed
for DARPA, is getting more humanoid-like by the day it seems, and here
we see it--legs, torso, arms, and all--negotiating staircases, running
on a treadmill, and even hitting the floor for some pushups. All this
strength training appears to be doing PETMAN some good.
A modified version of this platform will be used as the government-funded equipment for the tracks of
DARPA’s Robotics Challenge
that only require teams to develop a software component. In other words
if you can write a good piece of software for this high-stepping
humanoid, DARPA might just let you try it out.
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