Year of the Humanoid: Legged robots from eight companies vie for jobs
Evan Ackerman
Abstract
Ten years ago, at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trial event near Miami, I watched the most advanced humanoid robots ever built struggle their way through a scenario inspired by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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