As soon as Google announced it was acquiring the scary mechanical cheetah company Boston Dynamics, twitter exploded into a series of snarky comments about self-aware robots from a company that knows everything about you chasing after you to watch more YouTube.
Say what you will, Boston Dynamic is a fascinating company. I’ve marveled at BD’s robotics and have watched all the videos as they came out (Boing Boing has a nice collection of them) but David Pogue’s Making Stuff series on Nova has a segment which goes into a bit more detail along with an interview with the company’s founder.
The entire episode is fascinating but the Boston Dynamics segment starts at 19:30.
Other projects mentioned in the video include Festo’s Bionic Innovations
and UPenn’s GRASP labs research on swarming nanobots.
One response to “Robots copy Nature”
Thanks for hipping me to the amazing & scary as hell robots made by Boston Dynamics. Google is making some interesting & possibly scary acquisitions. 1st drones that could kill & now robots that could kill. Hmm.