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11-lb Robot Can Jump 30 Feet Into the Air

Posted by Soulskill on from the there-goes-the-neighborhood dept.

Ruvim writes "Boston Dynamics has developed a 'Sand Flea' 11-lb robot that drives like an RC car, but when it needs to, it can jump 30 feet into the air. An onboard stabilization system keeps it oriented during flight to improve the view from the video uplink and to control landings."

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  1. Re:minor issues by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Try to sound smart for us again. I think you got it all wrong.

  2. Re:One day... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    This device was specifically designed to hurdle the walls that typically surround Middle-Eastern housing, then detonate an incendiary/shrapnel weapon. There are currently other weapons designed to take out people hiding behind obstacles, such as shotgun slugs designed for firing over the heads of a target that explode at pre-programmed distances.

    I have an uncle that once said to me "We don't drop enough bombs." He is a designer of bombs at General Dynamics.

    Family or not, these are the people that should be loaded into the Soylent Green hoppers first, if they ever bring us to that state.