It's aliiiiiive
Woah. If you have 28 megs to spare, download this video of a 4-legged robot being developed as a mechanised pack mule for the US DOD. This thing is powered by a 2-stroke engine, and can climb 35 degree inclines, move across all sorts of terrain, and can even recover its balance after being kicked.
In the video, the legs are wrapped are in black cloth, which gives them a pseudo-cartoonish human-in-a-tracksuit look. One part of my brain is telling me it's a machine while other parts of my brain are thinking that this weird thing is moving almost, but not quite like a real walking animal. A strange sensation. I amost felt sorry for it getting kicked.
Freaky, but incredible.
(via jwz)
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