The DARPA Robotics Challenge highlighted this issue, with 26 out of 46 trials involving falls, most requiring human help. According to researchers, designing a fall recovery controller is complex due ...

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A British R&D unit that’s been compared to DARPA is funding synthetic muscles ... usher in a new era of dexterity that will transform robotics and human productivity. Members of the group ...

DARPA is peering much further into the future by wanting to harness biological engineering to exploit its "rapid growth properties" — which could one day be done with minimal human intervention.