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DARPA’s ‘Atlas’ Robot Can Now Do The Karate Kid Crane Stance
That’s some serious balancing. Engineers at Boston Dynamics are making progress with “Atlas”, the 180cm, 150kg humanoid robot. Still a long way to go from this to fast robot ninjas, but it’s already intimidating as it tries to do the famous “Crane Kick” (or at least the stance) from Karate Kid.
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We Are One Step (And Short Jump) Closer To Real Metal Gears
Terrifying robot watch update: in the video above, a defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) robot called “Pet-Proto” is locked in a corridor and presented with two obstacles. The first is a step it must climb onto. The second is a gap it must inch across.