Bad Dog !

Posted on May 18, 2008 by freemarketman

This is freaky thing is being developed with funding from the US Department of Defence. This is now…imagine these things in five years time…being deployed against us ???

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  1. daddysteve, on May 19th, 2008 at 6:58 pm Said:

    I saw this about a month or so ago and was amazed. I had no idea the ability for a robot to balance itself had advanced to such a degree. Quite impressive. Then I saw that DARPA was bankrolling it and – sadly- that should ruin any decent civilian applications for the near future.

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