[size=13pt]He's behind you! Google's new Atlas robot stands up on its own after getting knocked down[/size]
New version of robot 'designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings'
Uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles
Atlas is about 5' 9" tall (about a head shorter than the original Atlas) and weighs 180 lbs

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY


Google's Boston Dynamics has revealed the latest version of its humanoid robot - and it can now get up easily on its own if it falls.

The Atlas robot was widely derided at the recent 'robolympics' after falling repeatedly and needing a crane to get up.

However, the new wireless version is shown being pushed over by an employee - and simply getting back up.

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He's behind you! Boston Dynamic has revealed the new wireless version of its humanoid robot in a new video showing it walk, run, and even be pushed over and get up again on its own.

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Boston Dynamics said the video showed 'a new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings.

'It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated,' the secretive firm said.

'It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain and help with navigation.

'This version of Atlas is about 5' 9" tall (about a head shorter than the DRC Atlas) and weighs 180 lbs.'

However, the firm released now more details - and the video has no narration.

The video shows the robot walking out of the firm's office and across a snowy plateau.

While lsing its footing several times, it corrects itself and stays upright.

It is also shown moving 10kg boxes with ease in a tight space.

It then faces a more difficult foe - an employee with a hockey stick.

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The impact knocks the robot to the ground. Previousl versions would then have required a crane to lift it up again.

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The new wireless version is able to deftly flip onto its knees, then stand up - without help from a human

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Twenty five of the top robotics organizations in the world were competing for $3.5 million in prizes, and took on a gruelling simulated disaster-response course during the two day contest.

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'We get most of our ideas about robotics from science fiction. And we want to show a little bit of science fact,' said Gill Pratt, who organized the competition for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which focuses on futuristic technologies for national security.

The contest runs Friday and Saturday at a Pomona racetrack designed to look like a disaster zone.

The robots may be slow, clumsy and delicate but they might just save lives someday by braving dangerous disaster zones.

Pratt cited the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan as an emergency where such robots would have come in handy.

'Sometimes in a disaster, it is too dangerous for people to go in,' he said.

Teams of engineers, programmers and designers from research institutions across the world have worked for years to build robots that can maneuver the course and complete the assigned tasks.

'We have a valve that we need to turn to shut off a gas leak or something similar,' said John Seminatore, a Virginia Tech graduate student with Team Valor.




DARPA says 'the DRC is a competition of robot systems and software teams vying to develop robots capable of assisting humans in responding to natural and man-made disasters.

'It was designed to be extremely difficul



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

The first robot murder victim is probably already born.