God help me but I just love watching videos of robots doing completely banal things. Every time I do I’m reminded of a) how much work and effort goes into recreating a task that humans can carry out without thinking, and b) how far away we are from all those killer robot doomsday scenario. Just look at this fella’s little stampy robot steps! It couldn’t hurt a fly.
The robot in this video is the Anymal, a quadruped bot built by ETH Zurich. (It looks similar to some of Boston Dynamic’s creations, but that’s just because four legs is a good model for building stable robots. Even when they break down, they’re still left standing up.) The video above is just a tiny update on the bot’s progress, but it’s been under development for more than...
