The DARPA Robotics Challenge, set up after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, aims to ‘accelerate the development of robots that can respond to man-made or natural disasters’.
This year, a transforming Korean bot won the $2 million prize.
Hurray!
Now here’s a montage of the robots that fell over.
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They all look drunk..
Disappointed that none of them started thrashing their limbs and squealing like a pig ala Ed-209.
The last robot was like an old man getting off a bus. Once he got the jiggly legs it was game over.
Were they asked to design robots that act like drunk humans?
In fairness, they’d make good premiership footballers – they drop like they’ve just been shot.