ATLAS

Watch humanoid robot Atlas balance on one foot

Robohub Editors 14 Sep 2016

A video posted to YouTube last week shows Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot Atlas balancing on one foot, while standing on a 2cm thick plywood edge....

Nat Geo’s Robots 3D proves that robots don’t need to be sci-fi to be compelling

Adriana Hamacher 16 Jul 2015

Close up, in 3D, what jumps out at you is not just how astonishing today’s humanoid robots are, but also how miraculous the human body they mimic is. National Geographic’s Robots 3D is showing in ...

DARPA’s Robotics Challenge: A pocket-sized guide to the finals

Adriana Hamacher 03 Jun 2015

DARPA's latest Challenge reaches its climax on 6 June 2015, when 25 finalists compete for $3.5m of prize money in what’s possibly the most anticipated robotic contest ever. Since its inception in 20...

DARPA’s legacy: Open source simulation for robotics development and testing

DARPA Robotics Challenge 27 May 2015

When the DARPA Robotics Challenge first began to coalesce from an idea to a plan, we knew that we wanted to create a lasting legacy not only for robot hardware capabilities, but also for robotics simu...

DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge results

Andra Keay 27 Jun 2013

The first competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was a software simulation of humanoid rescue work. The 6 best teams were to be allocated ATLAS robots for the next stage of the challenge, b...