Introducing Spot - Neatorama

Boston Dynamics has done it again- they’ve unveiled a robot that approaches the uncanny valley to give us the heebie jeebies. This robot is called Spot, because he’s kind of like a dog. In fact, he’s the little brother of their BigDog robot. The difference is that Spot runs on electric power instead of gasoline, so he can be used indoors as well as outside. And he, I mean it, weighs only about 160 pounds. Spot joins BigDog, AlphaDog, Atlas, Petman, RHex, Wildcat, Sand Flea, and Cheetah (all from Boston Dynamics) among our new robot overlords. -via Geeks Are Sexy

See also: More terrifying robots from Boston Dynamics.

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Is it kind of sad that I felt bad for it when the guy kicked it? (Even though I know they were just demonstrating its ability to compensate for collision...)

Poor Spot.

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Finish him! :D

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Makes perfect sense that kids become murderers after playing Mortal Kombat, just like how kids were trained in cultural relations when they played cowboys and Indians and girls learned to become strippers by undressing Barbie. Seriously, the only thing Mortal Kombat did was screw up kids English skills by spelling the word with a K.

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I was a kid when the MK controversy was going on, so naturally, I didn't care. (I didn't care about the game itself, either) A restaurant I frequent has a MK game and now as an adult and parent, I have to laugh about it. I look at the Tom & Jerry style fighting and what passes for blood in that game (patches of red blobby goo that float away into the air? Really?)and wonder what parents were ever worried about. The big deal at the time was the 'realism' of the violence and honestly, it couldn't be more cartoony.

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http://www.slashgamer.com/2009/05/05/video-game-art-8-bit-fatalities/

old, wow i used to like this site until i realized everything that comes here is all old news

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We've been around long enough to know that we win some, we lose some in terms of covering stuff. There's simply no way to be the first in covering things that happen on the Web. ')

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