Unboxing Boston Dynamics' DARPA-Ready Atlas Robot

mikejuk writes with some robot eye candy, in the form of this excerpt: "If you think its cool to video the unboxing of your latest mobile phone — think again. Unboxing a robot has a lot more going for it and reaches a whole new level of sci-fi realized. The Atlas robot is a standard humanoid robot to be used by competitors in the DARPA Robotics challenge. Built by Boston Dynamics, it is in the same line as Petman and BigDog. It is now being delivered to the labs that will take part and the temptation to make an unboxing video has been irresistible They arrive in plain of wooden crates as if they were auto parts. Next it is unwrapped and lifted out of its packing case using a crane. It looks black and threatening — just like a sci-fi movie but watch the videos and see."

Unimpressed

[Anonymous Coward]

If the robot is so advanced, why can't it unbox itself?

It would be a lot more impressive

[msobkow]

... if you pushed a button and it smashed it's way out of it's own crate, stood up, and roared. :)

Re:Unimpressed

[ArsonSmith]

Why does it even need a box? If it's an advanced robot all it should need is a plane ticket and some cab money.