What bothers me..
"The seven teams currently in the challenge will get their own Atlas bot and then program it until December, when trials will be held at the Homestead Miami Speedway in Florida."
So not only do they have over 7 "teams" going against each other, that also means they have more then* 7 "body's" to use. And who knows how many spare parts.
So while one team teaches it how to fight fires, another will teach it how to kill people while another will teach it how to save people, while another will teach it how to hunt,stalk, hide and ambush, while another will teach it how to execute someone without making a sound.
Then when the "tests" are all over, you "award one team" and let them fade away, then you take all data, combine it and you get a controllable super soldier.
The power supply has always been the major problem with these..things, however a girl recently designed a super capacitor that can recharge a cell phone in 20 seconds, whos to say if you can get 4-6 hours from a battery,that the soldier cant just walk "or be transported" back to base for a 20-30 minute recharge rearm/repair and be back in the field. Let alone if they "dropped" portable recharge/rearm stations while on the battlefield.
This is just another one of those "things"that makes the future just that much more dark. And you can bet your butt the americans are not the only people working on stuff like this.
I can just imagine 20 years from now some kid laying in a field face down or face up in a pool of his own blood, and the "figure" that walks up to him and lays the final blow wont even have human eyes. 
