DARPA's Pet-Proto Robot Navigates Obstacles

In this video, the Pet-Proto, a predecessor to DARPA's Atlas robot, is confronted with obstacles similar to those robots might face in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). To maneuver over and around the obstacles, the robot exercises capabilities including autonomous decision-making, dismounted mobility and dexterity. The DARPA Robotics Challenge will test these and other capabilities in a series of tasks that will simulate conditions in a dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environment. Teams participating in Tracks B and C of the DRC will compete for access to a modified version of the Atlas robot for use in the 2013 and 2014 live disaster-response challenge events. For more information on the DRC, please see: http://go.usa.gov/VfA.

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[samfisher01]

they just had to add the blue lights didnt they...

[MadMaxGamer]

- generic robot uprising joke -

[stephentsang2000]

These things will kill us all in the future, including its current master~

[happybuniek]

Impressive!

I am waiting for that moment when I will be old and my grandson will ask me to buy him a Personal Robot :D

[ash016016]

rumble robot in real life O.O

[mechanicalbu11]

Don't forget the highly radioactive power cores these things are going to need to become operational.

[balsamicVin]

they now have a robot capable of doing what my fat freind does on a playground after a bottle a scotch.

[Stanley Kranston]

"...the engine Cyclone has developed to power the EATR runs on fuel no scarier than twigs, grass clippings and wood chips – small, plant-based items for which RTI’s robotic technology is designed to forage. Desecration of the dead is a war crime under Article 15 of the Geneva Conventions, and is certainly not something sanctioned by DARPA, Cyclone or RTI." Sorry but you're spreading rumors that you clearly haven't even confirmed or debunked yourself. Good job, "truth seeker"

[Kyle Brackin]

I dunno, maybe they'll use whatever powers all those alien saucers they keep at Area 51! (being facetious, just in case you hadn't heard that conspiracy theory and decided to run with it as wel)

[Kyle Brackin]

And where did you read that? Tinfoilhatnews Blog? This thing has all the grace and dexterity of an exploding speedboat. It'll be a very long time before such a thing poses a threat to human. And even if they could work out all the kinks and make it move fluidly like a human, they can't power something like this with battery tech we currently have. Sorry, but you've been reading some sketchy things online. What you read was wrong and has been known to be wrong for a while now. Google it.

[vertitis]

It would fall if there wasnt any walls in the first part :-P