The AMBER 2 Robot does its best

The AMBER 2 Robot does its best to emulate human foot movements, with the goal of making a machine that can walk on all sorts of terrain.The AMBER 2 Robot from Texas A&M Amber Lab has almost all of the pivot points necessary to mimic human-like locomotion, which is very complex. You'll note the purposeful stumble at the end of the video, which was intentional to show that the boom only provided lateral stability.I want to see when these kinds of legs will be integrated into a real walking robot. Hopefully, Skynet won't use them to help exterminate us all.

Where once landed sandals of Roman, now rolls the rubberized tread of a robot. Or whatever robot feet are made from. Hewn from the solid rock of Italian mountains, the miles-long ancient aqueducts have stood for 2,000 years, forming a vast network the Aqua Claudio is 45 miles long and the Porta Maggiore is 60 miles. And that means it's tough for scientists and historians to just go blindly skipping through them. Sure, there are some dandy maps drawn up by British topographer Thomas Ashby in the First World War,Poppy, a 3D-printed humanoid robot that defies conventions and 3D scanners are also proving quite handy in mapping the tunnels. But the dirty job of exploring cisterns and drains beneath the Roman Forum goes to what archaeologists are calling an "archeo-robot" named Lucius.

The robot runs via remote control and has high-def cameras, 6 wheels and no aversion to weird smells. Awesome. When will there be a Disneyand-type tour for us to go on?Assistant Professor Luis Sentis of the Cockrell School's Human Centered Robotics Lab greets Dreamer, a mobile humanoid robot who may appear in "Transformers 4″ next summer.This summer, Dreamer, a robot with a bright, cartoon-like face received its first set of wheels and made its acting debut in a major Hollywood film.Dreamer is the brainchild of Luis Sentis, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering who established the Human Centered Robotics Lab in 2010 at the Cockrell School of Engineering.