{"id":3118,"date":"2015-03-04T22:23:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T03:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:38:59","slug":"atlas-drc-robot-is-75-percent-new-completely-unplugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2015\/03\/04\/atlas-drc-robot-is-75-percent-new-completely-unplugged\/","title":{"rendered":"ATLAS DRC Robot Is 75 Percent New, Completely Unplugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/military-robots\/atlas-drc-robot-is-75-percent-new-completely-unplugged\/?utm_source=roboticsnews&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=020315\">IEEE Specturm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve always known that the ATLAS DRC humanoid robot was due for some serious upgrades before the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, because having a robot that\u2019s tethered for power and safety is just not in the spirit of what the DRC is all about: moving towards robotic systems that can provide meaningful assistance during a real-world disaster scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Back in November, we started hearing that DRC Track B teams were sending their ATLAS robots back to Google-owned Boston Dynamics for some tweaks, and today, DARPA has posted a video of the brand new ATLAS. And it really is almost entirely brand new.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/27HkxMo6qK0?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/military-robots\/atlas-drc-robot-is-75-percent-new-completely-unplugged\/?utm_source=roboticsnews&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=020315\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From IEEE Specturm We\u2019ve always known that the ATLAS DRC humanoid robot was due for some serious upgrades before the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, because having a robot that\u2019s tethered for power and safety is just not in the spirit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2015\/03\/04\/atlas-drc-robot-is-75-percent-new-completely-unplugged\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ieee","category-robot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5049,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/5049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}