@nomad... Computer CGI can fake anything... By your accounts the movie Avatar is real because the aliens left footprints in the mud? @Nomad have you ever heard of CGI?

no i cant say i do.

Awesome video...also saw it today for the first time! I guessed it was speeded up, but they showed it was real time when there was a human person interacting! I was amazed, I also saw how slow things were at the DARPA but this was amazing...could be that it used less computing power because tasks were more simple? Did not seem to be a CGI thing to me...but who knows?

@All I don't think Boston dynamics is a bogus corporation...a serious robotics company would not dampen their reputation with fake robot videos...

@Nomad Really dude? You really haven't heard of cgi?

Did Boston Dynamics make the video?

Yes, it is a general dynamics video. I saw their Cheetah live 3 years ago, and although tethered for power and control, it was advanced enough that I believe this is real. I can't imagine it can go for more than a few minutes without recharging though.

Alan

Well, if it is real it should win Darpa hands down this year... Compared to the bots at Darpa last year this thing (again if real) seems light years more advanced....

What surprised me was the foot movement during the hike over the rough ground to keep balance.