[Video]:Robot Walks Like Human!
Posted by Tony on July 9th, 2012For the most part, the current generation of robots are about as mobile as a piece of gym equipment.
Depending on who you talk to, that could be a good thing. It means that our future overlords, unless they begin linking up with the drones we discussed a few postings ago, are pretty much stuck in one place while the surviving humans can hide and make plans to take our world back.
Then THIS happened…
Researchers at the University of Arizona have created the first robotic legs to accurately mimic a human being’s walk.
Innocently enough, the researchers are using the sauntering robot legs to understand how babies learn to walk as well as understanding how spinal cord-injury patients could possibly recover the ability to walk.
Sounds great. Unless of course you’ve seen the Gekkos in Metal Gear Solid 4 (for the uninitiated…watch the first half of the video below). You’ll know exactly where this tech could potentially lead to…mounting an arsenal-laden torso on top of these legs and setting them loose on the streets.
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