zombie84 said:
I wonder if you could use this sort of thing to aid disabled people instead of killing.
I wonder if you could use this sort of thing to aid disabled people instead of killing.
They already have them.
http://www.ibotnow.com/
No need for legs when you've got wheels and you can be lifted up stairs. Legs actually increase the complexity since you then need gyroscopes for stabilization (that's how this dog looking thing manages to stay standing after it's pushed).
This will probably eventually lead to a humanoid looking robot soldier that can duck and crawl and do everything a real person can do. Except it'll be bullet proof and manned from a bunker 100 miles away from the battlefield. You could then even put a self destruct mechanism into it that blows up everything within a certain distance if it ever becomes incapacitated.