Even Our Balloon Animals Will Soon Be Made By Robots

Source: http://gizmodo.com/even-balloon-animal-clowns-will-soon-be-replaced-by-rob-1684302198

DARPA's ATLAS is an impressive feat of robotics engineering, but despite representing the bleeding edge of automatons, it's slow and clumsy when it comes to doing anything on its own. A better way to make a robot as skilled as a human is to simply put a human in complete control of it, manipulating it remotely like a puppet from a safe distance. That's what RE2 Robotics thinks is the best approach, and watching the robot arms it developed make a balloon animal is pretty convincing.

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