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Tools & manufacturing · 2013

Atlas humanoid (hydraulic)

A 1.8 m hydraulic humanoid built for disaster response.

Boston Dynamics unveiled Atlas in 2013 for the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Later versions ran, jumped and did backflips, setting the bar for dynamic humanoid control.

See it in the living treeWikipedia

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

What it led to 5

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