When bomb squad robots fall, they can get back up again
By: Kelsey Atherton  
Robots fall over and people care when it happens. It is the nature of moving machines and dependable, anthropomorphized tools. People become attached to the machines they use and worry when those machines are in peril. Those facts combine especially poorly in combat, where a toppled robot can inspire a living, breathing human to run into harm’s way to save it.
To this end, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory partnered with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to develop software that lets robots get themselves up again. The research is set to be published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in October.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2018/08/31/when-bomb-squad-robots-fall-they-can-get-back-up-again/
