BD has done a lot of work on DARPA grants, and is very good at specmanship. If the DARPA contract says "must run continuously for 10 hours" then you can bet th

BD has done a lot of work on DARPA grants, and is very good at specmanship. If the DARPA contract says "must run continuously for 10 hours" then you can bet that the MTBF of all the critical components is slightly north of 10 hours. BD is stuck in an academic research mindset, and hasn't really internalized the mindset necessary to create something sufficiently robust to be a product. I got to tour the maintenance garage at the DRC Finals, pretty much every Atlas and every Atlas spare part in the world were in the building. The Atlas looked like a delicate "lab queen" contraption next to the CHIMP robot used by Tartan Rescue.