If you haven’t seen this video of the BigDog robot in testing by the Darpa-funded Boston Dynamics, you need to stop and take a look. This machine is amazing, and brings us so much closer to our Utopian future of service to our new robot overlords. All I want to know is when the commercial versions come out. Heck, put one of these in the hands of our buddies over at Kid Kustoms, and we could have an awesome retro self-propelled robot stroller! Take a look.
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