Meet our future RoboSimian heroes

Not all robots are built for war and destruction. In fact, at this year's DARPA Robotics Challenge, professor Katie Byl and her team from the UC Santa Barbara Robotics Lab showed off RoboSimian -- a multi-limbed, ape-like robot built for rescue missions. Unlike its bipedal and humanoid robot competitors who found themselves falling over like drunk robots, RoboSimian used its four limbs to give it both balance and strength. "When you think about what you would want in a rescue scenario, it's things like stability," Byl said in this video from Tested. "So RoboSimian is designed with four limbs and strength. This is a robot that's really designed to do pull ups; to clamor around on a jungle gym, as opposed to being a little more delicate and human like in form."