Google Tests Six-Foot Humanoid Robot with Walk in Woods

Boston Dynamics, a robotics company owned by Google, posted footage of a prototype of their robot, named Atlas, taking a walk through the woods.

Atlas is designed, “to negotiate outdoor, rough terrain in a bipedal manner, while being able to climb using hands and feet as a human would,” writes The Guardian.

Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston Dynamics, provided an update on Atlas’s development to an audience at the 11th annual Fab Lab Conference and Symposium in Boston earlier this month.

He explained his team wanted to see how Atlas would perform in a wooded area because it was an unpredictable environment compared to the company’s laboratory.

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Source:rdmag.com