Boston Dynamics (BD) recently released a video of their new and improved Atlas robot. Lots of great new features and abilities including being tether free, the ability to avoid obstacles, and to function outside.
What also becomes clear in the new video BD released on the new model is that humans will have no problem pissing off robots. It's a little too Terminator AND Battlestar Galactica for our taste because they we all know they will someday want to get even. Luckily, Scifi also tells us that robots will very likely be pretty sassy in their own right so hopefully this trait evolves faster than their interest in kicking our asses.
Here's a link to a post featuring one of our favorite sassy robots.
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RobotWatch | Atlas Arrives
Meet Atlas, the newest concept robot designed by Boston Dynamics for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Standing on two legs with eyes, arms, hands and fingers it is one of the most humanoid robots yet developed. Atlas was developed to aid in search and rescue efforts during humanitarian emergencies.
In a July 2013 New York Times article by John Markoff, Gary Bradski, a Silicon Valley artificial intelligence specialist declared that with Atlas, “A new species, Robo sapiens, are emerging."
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