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A video has emerged on Twitter showing a faceless, but worryingly realistic humanoid robot walk in what looks like a perfectly mundane courtyard. The trip down the uncanny valley caused some users to proclaim impending apocalypse. The clip shows the stoop-backed robot whirr its way past the cameraman, with ominous music playing in the background. […]
Two and a half years after Chimp competed in the Darpa Robotics Challenge, it remains one of the weirdest humanoid robots on Earth. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a6a87152c3a6112ee631cbe/master/pass/STILL-02.jpg
Meet Kengoro, the humanoid that is strikingly lifelike not just in how it looks, but how it moves. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a39620a5a2d9a4a532baaec/master/pass/exercisebot-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
Published time: 17 Nov, 2017 08:22 Olympic athletes are shaking in their boots: Engineers have released a somewhat disconcerting video showing Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot effortlessly jumping over obstacles and doing a backflip while performing an impressive gymnastics routine. The new video shows the Atlas robot, which is six feet nine inches tall (over 2 […]
FEDOR is an anthropomorphous robot from Russia, designed to replace a person in difficult conditions. In 2021 the humanoid robot will be sent to space in an unmanned spaceship to assist astronauts. Let’s block ads! (Why?) Autoblog
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Enlarge / Awwww, doesn’t Disney’s huggable patent prototype look so soft and cuddly? (credit: US Patent and Trademark Office) The Disney Enterprises group filed a US patent in February that hints at a possible future for its theme parks: humanoid robots designed for maximum hugging efficiency. The patent, which was first reported by the Orlando Sentinel, has […]
Published time: 19 Mar, 2017 02:42 NASA’s Robonauts are being put to the test in Mars-like obstacle courses in order to pave the way for future humanoid space exploration and help bridge the expansive gap between Earth and human colonization of the red planet. NASA built four six-foot, 290-pound, Iron man-like pieces of machinery named Valkyrie, […]
