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A robot is not a man's best friend



It's from Boston Dynamics and features BigDog, recent robotic research, in the form of a "nimble quadrupedal pack robot" but I find this video strangely unsettling. K9 it ain't.

Maybe its the genuine canine gait the robot evinces, maybe it's the fact that despite the fur-covered legs the body exposes the circuitry or hydraulics of its robot origins, or maybe it is just because there is no head!

Check out this Friday-afternoon video look at robotics research based on animal characteristics - Video: Half robot, half animal, half sinister

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