Brick-Hurling Robot Beast Foreshadows Our Terrifying Future [VIDEO]
Boston Dynamics, the contractor with a DARPA contract to make frightening robot novelties for the U.S. military, has come out with a new nightmare-inspiring video.
YouTube Less deadly than a Hellfire missile, but maybe creepier: This robot dinosaur sure knows how to fling a cinderblock.
This latest video release comes after Boston Dynamics first unveiled an un-knockable-overable quadrupedal robo-mule called the "Big Dog," and then, on a lark, weaponized it with bull horns.
All of which was a little alarming, but we took comfort in the fact that if we ever met one of these things in the wild we'd at least be able to outrun it. Then Boston Dynamics dropped a video of a new four-legged death-machine-in-training called the Cheetah, which can achieve top speeds of 28.3 miles per hour, somewhat faster than the world's fastest man, Usain Bolt.
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