Humanoid & robot atlas
University labUnited StatesSince 1980

Carnegie Mellon University Leg Lab (Marc Raibert)

Lab founded by Marc Raibert at CMU in 1980 that built the first self-balancing hopping robots; moved to MIT in 1986 and led to Boston Dynamics.

Robot models in the atlas
11 machine
First robot
1983One year so far
Headquarters
PittsburghPennsylvania, USA

Robots

1 robot model shown in public in 1983. Newest first. Open one for its full profile.

The company

What it says about itself and what the sources record.

Founded
1980
Headquarters
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Funding
DARPA research contracts

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Other makers of machines, starting with those in United States.

Sources

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