I'm convinced Boston Dynamics deliberately design their robots to occupy the very deepest depths of the uncanny valley.
You can certainly see the military applications, if that thing was coming towards me I'd be legging it in the opposite direction. Although probably not fast enough.
They sent a slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT.
The Rat Things are coming...
Yay! Now the Rat Things from Snow Crash are real things that I can be terrified of even while I'm awake. So that's just great.
I'm convinced Boston Dynamics deliberately design their robots to occupy the very deepest depths of the uncanny valley.
You can certainly see the military applications, if that thing was coming towards me I'd be legging it in the opposite direction. Although probably not fast enough.
They sent a slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT.
What the hell fell off at 13 seconds into the video?
That was a foot. They take some serious abuse and last... not long enough.
@pavel: Weyland-Yutani made it oviparulous.