DARPA Robotics Challenge: meet the eight finalists
In December 2013, 16 teams gathered to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials. Meet the eight teams and their robots that qualified for the finals...
Tag Archives: Atlas
Build a lightweight helicopter
Build a lightweight helicopter, pedal hard, and hover for 60 seconds. Sounds easy? Not so fast. No one’s claimed this prize in 32 years. But two teams are very, very close....
Human-powered Atlas helicopter
Atlas is Todd Reichert’s entry for the elusive AHS Sikorsky Prize - the international battle for $250 000 (about R2,3 million), which will go to the world’s first minimally capable human-powered helicopter. Watch a flight test of the human-powered Atlas, which lasted roughly 30 seconds with Todd reaching an altitude of roughly 1,5 m...
