DARPA to spend $7 million on ‘Avatar’ program.
The Avatar program hopes to deliver a “semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine”, which would be remotely operated, much like current airborne drones around the world are controlled from the US.
DARPA’s Avatar robots will be able to perform human-like military operations such as room clearing, sentry control and recovering combat casualties, tasks that may help minimize injuries and deaths.
The program hopes the new robots will “behave and act as the soldier’s surrogate” - much like in the movie Avatar.
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