Google’s “nightmare” robot getting closer to Terminator status: Will the tech giant stage the next war against humanity
by: Daniel Barker
NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, February 07, 2017
Boston Dynamics, a robotics company owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has developed some amazing robots over the past few years, but none quite so “nightmare-inducing” as its latest creation, called “Handle.”
Handle hasn’t been officially unveiled to the public, but a group of investors were recently given a glimpse of its capabilities in a video presentation staged by company founder Marc Raibert. Footage of the presentation was captured by venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson and uploaded to YouTube, where it has since been viewed by more than 1.2 million people.
Handle uses a combination of wheels and legs to get around, and is remarkably agile – even frighteningly so. The robot is capable of jumping over obstacles and performing complex high-speed maneuvers without losing its balance. (RELATED: Find more news about robotics at Robotics.news)
From The Verge:
“Raibert describes Handle as an ‘experiment in combining wheels with legs, with a very dynamic system that is balancing itself all the time and has a lot of knowledge of how to throw its weight around.’ He adds that using wheels is more efficient than legs, although there’s obviously a trade-off in terms of maneuvering over uneven ground. ‘This is the debut presentation of what I think will be a nightmare-inducing robot,’ says Raibert.”
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