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Kawasaki’s Rideable Robotic Goat Is the Electric Car for Wandering Cowpokes
We’re more or less still at the point of robotics where engineers are throwing anything at the wall and hoping to find a design that sticks. Or at least, that seems like the best explanation for why Kawasaki created a four-legged walking Ibex — a species of wild goat — that can haul cargo or…
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This Robot Performs Amazing Jumps and Flips by Swinging Its Cyber-Penis Around
When you’re designing a robot to emulate the moves of an agile animal that can leap across gaps and carefully tip-toe across uneven terrain, it only makes sense to copy Mother Nature’s designs. It’s why you often see robots with tails, which help improve balance and agility. But staring at Tencent Robotics’ Ollie, I confess…
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Watch Boston Dynamics’ Robot Army Dance Their Way to World Domination
As the company wonders what the future holds for it now that Boston Dynamics is owned by the Hyundai Motor Group, its robots are showing off their impressive capabilities in a year-end video that may also be a ploy to distract humanity from their ultimate goal: total dominance on the dance floor, or the eradication…
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Latest Boston Dynamics Video Proves The Robot Uprising Will Be Shockingly Nimble
Do you remember the Boston Dynamics robots videos of just a few years ago? It was a big deal that robots such as Atlas could walk on (gasp!) uneven ground. But Atlas keeps blowing through milestones left and right, like in this new video that shows Atlas effortlessly jumping over obstacles and hopping onto boxes…