Most advanced Robot I have ever seen - is this real???

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I just answered my own question: That robot is REAL

Atlas is a bipedal humanoid robot primarily developed by the American robotics company Boston Dynamics, with funding and oversight from the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

A few quick notes:

At 5’9” (1.75 m) and 180 lbs (82 kg), the new ATLAS is much shorter and lighter than the previous model, which was 6’2” (1.9 m) and 345 lbs (156 kg). See family photo above for comparison.
It looks like BD decided that electric motors aren’t yet up to the task of getting a 180-pound robot to walk around, so they stuck with the more complicated (and generally messier) hydraulic system. Other legged robots do this too, and it seems like a reasonable compromise between the quiet efficiency of electricity and the power of hydraulics.
That dynamic balancing reminds us a lot of the early BigDog videos, but it’s crazy to see it running on a biped like this, because of the speed at which the limbs have to move while still supporting the upper body.
We’re not exactly sure how much autonomy it’s got going at this point. While walking outdoors, the LIDAR appears to be not spinning much of the time, which means someone is likely driving the robot. Some of the box picking up looks to be autonomous, but we’re definitely looking for some background on what’s going on behind the scenes when the robot is stacking boxes on those shelves.
It can fall over, and not only not die, but get up again by itself. There were a few layers of mats underneath the robot, and one video doesn’t reveal a whole lot about its overall robustness, but this is miles better than any other humanoid robot short of CHIMP (if you want to call CHIMP a humanoid).

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robo ... tlas-robot