A future threatened by wild
robotic rottweilers with no humanoid dog-walkers to keep them in check? That
must not happen. Fortunately, we'll have a fleet-footed droid named "Hume" to keep us safe: he's the work of engineers at Meka Robotics and the University of Texas at Austin, who want to be the first to build a bipedal robot with Parkour skills, aka rough terrain free-running or "Human-Centered Hyper-Agility". Sure, they still have some way to go, but watch the video after the break, then imagine it without the
wobbly coat stand, and then re-imagine it from the POV of an angry pup.
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