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 -

[TheGuering]

omg is it wierd to feel bad about him ? it looks diseased walking up those stairs with the help of a wire .. looks like a fisiotherapy session :p

[DarrrrenCullllen]

that robot is so drunk

[Adilio O. VAlquer dos Santos]

Congratulations to the americans. I must recognize that.

[mistake mistak]

THE LAST THING U WNT TO SEE IS A KILLER BOT. MINE ALMOST SLICED MY BALLS OFF IN THE PROTO STAGE.

[mistake mistak]

ITS ABOUT TIME DARPA CAUGHT UP WITH ROBOTICS! I TRIED TO SELL NASA A SYSTEM LIKE THIS 10 YEARS AGO. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.

[Aidan C]

Someone actually funded this!

[DavidAtomic]

When are we going to see a real Terminator?

[toaexos]

pinko pls leaf

[staticCable]

That was cool and creepy in a way.

[Lars Christensen]

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