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鈥楾erminator鈥 to save lives

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel got a first-hand look at a life-size robot on Tuesday that resembles Hollywood’s “Terminator,” the latest experiment by the Pentagon’s high-tech researchers.

But unlike the cinematic version, the hulking Atlas robot is designed not as a warrior but as a humanitarian machine that would rescue victims in the rubble of a natural disaster, officials said. Atlas is the brainchild of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.


 

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