Meet Pet-Proto, a prototype US military robot that can use autonomous decision making to navigate around and over obstacles.
Developed by Boston Dynamics - the firm behind the equally scary Big Dog robot - Pet-Proto is the latest iteration of the ATLAS humanoid military robot that is being developed through the DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) robotics challenge.
The aim of the $2million compeititon is stimulate the development of military humanoid robots capable of carrying out human tasks.
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