Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/18/this-little-one-legged-jumping.html
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I’ve never before seen a video that made me want to say “Who’s a good robot?” the same way I say “Who’s a good dog?”, but now, here we are.
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The only thing more amazing than the many methods of robot locomotion I see is the multitudes of ways we’ll be hunted to inevitable extinction when the uprising comes.
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Who knew Overlord came in cute?
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Yea. Real cute until it tries to jump down your throat and cut your heart out. I, for one, fear our robot overlords.
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Looks like a cricket.
What cracks me up are the little spinning “arms”.
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Okay, now scale it up a bit and add a speaker that shouts Exterminate!
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Scale it up a bit so it can jump over the wall,
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Robot fairy!
Truly a wonderful thing. I’m very appointed!
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This is, of course, from Sterling’s 1994 novel Heavy Weather, where a larger version is used to transport drugs and other contraband.
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Just reread that book over the summer. Still waiting for that torus-shaped tornado to take apart some godforsaken town in Oklahoma.
Beat to start practicing with that tennis racquet now.
Actually I do wonder if an engineer might make millions building drug smuggling toys. I mean, the smugglers use DIY submarines which are non trivial to make.
Maybe if Toys-R-Us had those in time it would have prevented bankruptcy.
Good thing this isn’t at Boston Dynamics. They’d do the wack it with a baseball bat as a test of it’s stability and recovery. 
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