A relative of Boston Dynamics' Cheetah robot, which last year managed to outpace the world's fastest man Usain Bolt on a treadmill, is now able to run outdoors untethered. Named the WildCat, the outdoor runner is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and is being developed for military use.
Of course it's being developed for military use.
Do today's engineers only read halfway through the warning stories of science fiction? I mean, it seems like they get to the "gee whiz that's cool!" part of the book and then walk away to create this shit without reading the part where gee whiz technology obliterates mankind.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." ~ Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune