Watching this video, my reaction went from amused to amazed to terrified and finally to a sort of awed giddiness. When the DARPA Cheetah (complete with Cheetos font) really gets going, I can only imagine twenty years from now this thing chasing me down, cornering me in an alley, and screaming at me in a pre-recorded robotic voice that I am under arrest for illegally downloading Jurassic Park twenty five years ago. Then it will shoot me with tranquilizing darts through its robotic cheetah eyes and drag me to the nearest police pneumatic tube for processing. I can hardly wait! Seriously though, I hope someday people can realize how much better these things would be to bet on in a race than actual animals.
Awesome! I love the blinking red light on the left side of it, which, I like to imagine, was added simply to make it look more "robotic".
ReplyDeleteAccording to the YouTube info, the previous robospeed record of 13.1 mph was set in 1989. I guess robotics is different than computers in that the speeds don't double every year, which is probably a good thing.
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