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Fascinating footage shows a robot using autonomous planning to precisely move along a treacherous path of narrow cinder blocks.
Researchers trained the 165-pound 'humanoid robot' to walk across narrow terrain by using human-like control, perception and planning algorithms.
The video shows the robot, called Atlas, carefully moving across a balance beam using body control created using LIDAR.
This system uses a pulsed laser to measure the distance between objects and this is procssed by the machine so it can step correctly on the narrow terrain.
The researchers, from the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) in Florida, hope that the tech could be used for bomb squads or rescue missions.