Once the robot can save your life Meet this Atlas, 180-inch 150-pound robot Humanities Pentagon. It was designed to save lives in disaster areas (for example, in Fukushima). Perhaps this is the heart of the tin soldier, but the brain is clearly not enough. In December, seven groups of scientists from leading universities, including MIT and the Polytechnic University of Virginia, planning to complete its programming. Each team will send its own version of the test in Atlas DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Agency projects), they will be eight test questions that will test their ability to move along the difficult route, drive the vehicle and enter the building. Mark Raybert : Head of Boston Dynamics, creator of Atlas "We designed Atlas thus possible to facilitate the process of programming, and we hope that DARPA will choose the best" While only known characteristics of the robot 1 Vision Stereo camera and optical perception algorithms in s...