For those of you feeling a bit under the weather today...

[angeoverhere]

This just made me laugh like a drain:

I quote 'Boston Dynamics, Inc, a company spun off from MIT in 1992, last week won $10m of Pentagon cash. This was for the construction of "a dog-like robot with the capability to run fast, traverse trough [sic] terrain, jump over obstacles one metre tall or two metres wide, and operate for two hours without

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[tiny_rockets]

Hilarious in testing, fscking scary when they fill one with bombs :(

[angeoverhere]

But that's the whole point - it looks about as controllable as one of my cats, never mind the whole issue about how bloody stupid it looks (and yes, I think that would be more of a factor in the field than you might expect).

If in the meantime these guys are using up Pentagon money to do fun things with robotics (and making me giggle on a rough day) then that's just *fine* with me.