This 90-pound 'blind' robot dog definitely won't kill everything you hold dear

It's dark out. It's always dark these days. Something about ash from all the fires blocking out the sun? You can't remember. It's not like it matters. The MIT Cheetah 3 robot doesn't need sun to hunt you down and dance on your soon-to-be lifeless corpse. 

You recall when you first read about the "full-grown Labrador" sized robot. It was a Thursday in July, and you somehow happened across press release from EurekAlert. The document (remember documents?) described a 90-pound bot designed to navigate without relying on what would then be described as traditional visual cues. Instead, according to the MIT researchers who developed it, it used "tactile information" to move around.  Read more...