Moon Walking Robot. *quality

Congratulations, you have a walking robot in 2017. With custom parts, adorable.

Oh, BTW, have you seen THIS shit yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giS41utjlbU

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*geek
*WTF

So It's really more like a dog-walking robot, too??

All of the videos of humanoid/walking robots remind me of a mechanics/metalworking teacher I had who explained how the human body is an incredibly bad design for industrial use. His demonstration of a human-shaped crane, bending at the hips and legs to pick up heavy objects, was memorable.

I can see some household/servant-type applications for these but their usefulness seems to end there. Locomotion by tracks and/or wheels would be superior in almost every situation.

Boston Dynamics has done a lot of cool research with walking robots:

@oohlalasassoon has a point about the questionable necessity of robotic leg locomotion, but I still think legs are going to be used by at least some future robots, if for no other reason than we simply want to create something in our own image. And then hunt it down like in Blade Runner.

The compensation seemed about right for that push considering it doesn't have a top half to counter-balance with. If you weren't articulated at the waist you'd stumble a lot more.

I just hope they manage to make an even creepier robot next time. I'd be dissapointed if these guys ever make a walking robot that doesn't give me nightmares.

It's always cool to see robots walking... but let's face it. This one has nothing on Honda's Asimo. Definitely the best walking robot in the world.