Japanese Robot Can (Almost) Run - We Are So Doomed

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The bot, called Athlete, is the brainchild of Ryuma Niiyama, a post-doctorate student at MIT, and uses pneumatic artificial muscles to simulate human legs. Currently, it can only run three steps before toppling over, but it's only a matter of time before the current Olympic sprinting records are stripped from our species.

Here's a full body shot of the robot to terrify the piss out of you.

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