Meet ATLAS: Pentagon Develops Robot to Deal with Natural Disasters La Prensa
go to original August 20, 2013

Meet the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's ATLAS! (DARPA)

ATLAS, the latest humanoid robot developed by the Pentagon, is already in operation but much remains to be done in the quest to develop a machine that can respond to natural disasters in places where human beings cannot go.

Nine teams in different parts of the country are competing to develop the software that will allow ATLAS, which was previously designed by Boston Dynamics, to carry out activities almost autonomously, supervised by humans only remotely.

ATLAS is one of the most advanced humanoid robots in existence and was designed to allow its motor capabilities to be exploited to the utmost, but the software to accomplish that still needs to be developed and so the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has launched this contest, the results of which will be made public in early 2014.

The developer of the winning software will receive $2 million.

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