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As an antidote to the disturbing robot mule, here is the sweet face of robotics - the charming Asimo running, walking hand in hand with a Japanese lady, and tentatively delivering coffee to some businesswomen.
I'm not sure what it is about this robot mule used by the army that makes it so disturbing. Something about the very realistic knees that all go the wrong way. Also I don't like the way they kick it - although this is apparently to demonstrate its amazing reflexes. Don't kick the robot mule! The army are encountering some unexpected problems with their growing use of robots to carry out dangerous tasks: like the colonel who put a stop to a robot testing land mines because it was inhumane.
This shape-shifting robot has been designed to slip in unnoticed among a flock of real swifts so scientists can study their hyperefficient flying technique. "They are really agile and to study them you have really got to fly close to them - and look like them," says David Lentink of Wageningen University in the Netherlands. "Some birds will attack any model aircraft that comes close," he adds, in the New Scientist.
The explanation is in Japanese, but the swimming snake robot speaks for itself...