Synopsis

Robots are increasingly commonplace, powering factory lines and brewing our morning coffee. Yet, humanoid robots – machines designed with human-like abilities – have remained largely confined to the realm of science fiction. That is changing. Driven by an ambitious challenge from DARPA, a competition has ignited to create robots capable of performing tasks currently done by humans in disaster relief. This is the story of those robots and the engineers who bring them to life, as they navigate the