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Saturday, September 19, 2015

Humanoid robots falling over


BBC

In the video-clip, one robot struggles to open a door and a few others fall over, which is somewhat reassuring: they are not quite there yet. Emoji
 
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33041149


Robots have been competing on a Pentagon obstacle course at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds.
Team Kaist of South Korea defeated 22 others to win the top $2m (£1.3m) prize from the US Department of Defense's Darpa research unit with its DRC-Hubo humanoid robot. Just keeping upright seemed a challenge in itself for some of the metallic competitors, as BBC World TV reports.
 

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