I wonder if this is a modern solution...by that I don't mean modern as in tools but modern as in thought.  This is an ingenious technique but I just wonder how ingenious pre-historic man was.  I mean I think it far more likely that brutish multi-man methods were used rather than this elegant technique.

It's still cool though.

You tell me...This is WAY cooler than suicide doors, butterfly doors, canvas doors and any other car door I've seen.  But don't you take one look at it and think: Man there's a lot of things that could break with that.

Then I start thinking about safety.

Then about the side window, I bet you'd break a few of those.

But it is dang cool.

This just looks freaky.  My reaction is to imbue this mechanical creation with the attributes that a living animal has.  The way it moves and walks is enough like a living creature that I get a very odd feeling about it.

My primitive mamallian brain or maybe my lizard brain keeps tellimg me this is a living creature.  My Homo Sapien Brain keeps saying "no it ain't", but it can't convince my older brains.  They believe what they see, not what I tell them.

So obviously this is just experimental, but I've never seen anything like the swift kick to the side of a robot delivered by one of the researchers. That is an impressive bit of balancing going on there.

I for one welcome our new donkey-looking-noisy-weird robot overlords!

Created by Boston Dynamics. [linky]

Just cool.