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Eight years ago, the Pentagons Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized apainful-to-watch contest that involved robots slowly struggling (and often failing) to perform a series of human tasks, including opening doors, operating power tools, and driving golf carts..
Today the descendants of those hapless robots are a lot more capable and graceful..
They are made by Boston Dynamics,a pioneer of legged locomotion that built some of the humanoids used at the Darpa contest, and show that making capable robots in the shape of a human is possible..
The fact that he is now keen on building a humanoid himself suggests that some of the technologies needed to make such a machine are finally viable.. Jonathan Hurst, a professor at Oregon State University and cofounder ofAgility Robotics, was also at the Darpa challenge to give a demo of a walking robot he built..
At a manufacturing industry event called ProMat this March, Agilitys robots wowed the crowds withdemonstrations of warehouse tasks such as picking totes from shelves and placing them onto conveyors fully autonomously...
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