white noise

I am at once awed and spooked by Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robot, BigDog. If one looks past the fact that it sounds like a thousand steroid-popping hornets and walks — for the most part — like two drunken college students, one sees the unlimited possibilities of technology such as this. I find BigDog’s ability to compensate, both on ice and when shoved, eerie in depth and magnitude as I find myself thinking, That is a MACHINE. As far as animals go, it’s a mess; the anatomy is just so wrong. The front legs are backwards, giving it a deer/flea hybrid sort of appearance, which in itself is creepy. Nor does it help that the thing is headless. Still, the technology amazes me.