1) of all the animals that move around freely on this planet, i think bipedal walking is amongst the rarest mode of transportation, i mean you got many animals that can go bipedal for short bursts but outside of that you got basically humans and birds... and for birds in general bipedalism is the secondary mode of locamotion...
just seems illogical to spend so much effort to develop what is clearly a very limited and complex mode of operation.
also if as the article surmises google had any expectation that they were going to invest in robotics R&D and get some significant new product out of it in 5 years time... well then they deserved to get burned...
some problems just always fall on the government and military in particular because of the timespans involved before something meaningful can sprout from the R&D efforts.
1) of all the animals that move around freely on this planet, i think bipedal walking is amongst the rarest mode of transportation, i mean you got many animals that can go bipedal for short bursts but outside of that you got basically humans and birds... and for birds in general bipedalism is the secondary mode of locamotion... just seems illogical to spend so much effort to develop what is clearly a very limited and complex mode of operation.
also if as the article surmises google had any expectation that they were going to invest in robotics R&D and get some significant new product out of it in 5 years time... well then they deserved to get burned... some problems just always fall on the government and military in particular because of the timespans involved before something meaningful can sprout from the R&D efforts.