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DARPA's Newest Robot Is Possibly Its Creepiest Ever

Posted March 05, 2012 2:14 PM

From Gizmodo:

We love DARPA's unsettlingly-lifelike BigDog bot. We love it in spite of the fact that it's absolutely terrifying in motion. Now it has some bestial competition: the DARPA Cheetah.

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03/05/2012 3:11 PM

Hope the BigDog bot does not misbehave like Aime did in the movie Red Planet

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03/06/2012 7:55 AM

I'd like to see what happens when one of those pointy "legs" drops into a small hole!

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