“The robot, called Raptor, has achieved a speed of 46 kilometres per hour on a treadmill. That is faster than the fastest human, the Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt, whose top speed has been estimated at 43.92 km/h.”
“Inspired by the velociraptor - a predatory dinosaur which lived 75 million years ago.”
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/dinosaurinspired-robot-sprints-faster-than-usain-bolt/1256165
This is how it will end? What… what have we done?
All John Connors just shat their collective pants.
We haven’t been enslaved by cheetahs yet, so I think we’re okay.
It can run, but can it balance? It looks like it has a fair amount of help balancing…
It does look a bit like an All-Terrain Scout-Transport (AT-ST) from Star Wars (Yes, I had to look up what they were called).
Humans are not very fast. And treadmills are flat and predictable.
I do think that if they can work out the kinks and test on open road, road with obstacles, road with moving objects, sidealks with people and so on, and improve fuel economy, a fast bipedal transport wil eventually win over a two-wheel or four-wheel contraption that needs an enormous infrastructure and gobbles up land (25% of Los Angeles is covered in roads.)
No more roads need to built. (or built just crudely enough to allow it to scurry along.)
Screw Segway, this is the Revolution.