LOL!

Bring it on here and we will program it to shrug.

Especially asteroid and other off world mining where there is no life and no tree huggers in the way.

I think it 's all about war. But there could be awesome lifesaving roles for such a machine. Mining for example.

Just from watching the video it looks like a case of being 90% done, which is maybe half way to a commercial product. That's still very fast advancement. I remember seeing a TV show as a teenager about how walking up stairs was a nearly-impossible problem for robotics.

I always worry that automation will indirectly lead to socialism. That *certainly* doesn't mean not investing in robotics. It just means be warned that this is yet another possible justification for more gov't intrusiveness, i.e. "all the money's going to companies who make robots that take away jobs." I'm optimistic about it overall.

haha. I'm stealing that line...

In the first video it looks like a kid trying to sneak up a squeaky staircase. :)