AS RUSS TEDRAKE flings up the garage door to the dusty MIT lab, light whooshes in, revealing a 360-pound humanoid robot hanging from a rope. The hulky human form sways as the Cambridge breeze blows into the room.
The deactivated dangling thing looks like a metal rag doll, vulnerable and grotesque. But this is Atlas, one of the most sophisticated robots in the world. “The control system for a fighter jet is way simpler than this,” says Tedrake, leader of the Atlas team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
via Wired
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