The Nightmare in Silicon Valley: 8 horror technologies that should scare you to death
Every night is fright night with what can happen once these scary technologies take hold in ways that you may not have imagined.
Some robots are designed to be cute and approachable. This is not that gallery.
What's creepier than a robot that looks almost human? How about a robot that looks like half a human? Cassie, by Agility Robotics, is a bipedal robot for walking and running. Bipedal locomotion is incredibly difficult to engineer. Right now, Cassie is available for research and development markets. The legs-only platform is designed for robotics engineers to tinker with and crack the code of walking upright. But encounter this thing in the forest, which is where a lot of the promotional photos were inexplicably shot, and you'll be the one running away.
Caption by: Greg Nichols
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