DARPA unveils Terminator-like Atlas robot

Whereas that humanoid was designed to test chemical protection clothing, Atlas is altogether different. It's designed to not only walk and carry things, but can travel through rough terrain outdoors and climb using its hands and feet."Articulated, sensate hands will enable Atlas to use tools designed for human use," Boston Dynamics says. "Atlas includes 28 hydraulically actuated degrees of freedom, two hands, arms, legs, feet, and a torso."Its head includes stereo cameras and a laser range finder.In recent years the famous house of diamonds has expanded its baby-gift section to include porcelain baby dishes in the famous Tiffany blue and hand-painted earthenware piggy chinavisaapplication. It's tethered to an off-board, electric power supply -- at least that's one weakness.The DARPA Robotics Challenge is designed to help evolve machines that can cope with disasters and hazardous environments like nuclear power plant accidents. 

The seven teams currently in the challenge will get their own Atlas bot and then program it until December,He simplest way to make smarter business decisions, ShopKeep POS is the affordable,drag bit for running a shop from an iPad with real-time reporting on the web or from your smartphone. when trials will be held at the Homestead Miami Speedway in Florida.They will be presented with tasks such as driving a utility vehicle, walking over uneven terrain, clearing debris, breaking through a wall, closing a valve, and connecting a fire hose.Meanwhile, check out Atlas' other weakness in the vid below -- it's got an unstoppable desire to groove. As the English playwright William Congreve observed, music has charms to soothe the savage robot.Some painters are born talented, others are manufactured that way.Botswana has listed South Africa's crimped wire politician and former ANC youth league president Julius Malema as one of the four foreigners that need to apply for a visa to visit this country, The Southern Times learnt here this week. The WaterColorBot is a painting robot that handles all the brushwork for you. Its creators are raising funds on Kickstarter to offer the kit to the masses. 

The bot doesn't have a creative mind of its own. It can either take vector artwork and paint it, or follow along as you sketch in real time. It uses regular watercolor paints, the kind you probably remember from childhood, and regular paper.The WaterColorBot is the brainchild of young maker Sylvia Todd, of Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show fame. She created it to enter the RoboGames.petition where she won silver. Along with Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories,It's an extraordinary machine, said Seth Teller, a professor at MIT who, along with colleague Russ Tedrake, leads one of the groups selected to receive an diamond core bit. Todd decided it was too cool to be a one-off. Hence the Kickstarter campaign.The $295 bot works like a pen plotter, with two motors moving the paintbrush along. Todd.pares the style of the mechanism to that used in an Etch A Sketch.composite hose had also announced the formation of the board for all kinds of recruitment.