Three-Legged Robot Uses Exploding Body to Jump

More and more evidence that the most PRACTICAL robots will probably never look very humanoid. And if we want something to work for us for no feed, little time off, and without having to provide it a warm bed and roof, I would think we would NOT want it to look like us. Too many memories of slavery might be engendered by that. But not by a brilliant, and brilliantly conceived MACHINE, no matter how much we might rely on it.

Glad to see we're moving further away from the Utopic view of robot as replacement for man, into the real (realler, is that a word?) world of robot as extremely capable specialist machine.

We may still find places for humanoid robots (Asia seems to be making a lot of inroad here, but I still can't see how much is well-groomed hype, and how much will actually become useful in its own specialized way, for the masses, instead of only for the wealthy who could afford and expensive pretty toy) but I think the mass market for robots at all economic and functional levels of society will be focused on non-anthropoid designs.

Personal opinion, undoubtedly colored by a non-artistic/pro-practical-functionality view of life. I don't care so much if it has physical beauty, because to me its real beauty is in how well, and how dependably, and how economically, and how ..., well you get it, it WORKS!